Finance Business Partner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join a highly regarded, project-led professional services organisation based in Dublin. This role will partner closely with senior leadership teams, providing commercial insight and financial support across multiple business units and high-profile projects.

This is an ideal opportunity for a commercially focused finance professional who enjoys partnering with stakeholders, driving profitability, and influencing strategic decision-making within a fast-paced, project-based environment.
The Opportunity Reporting into senior leadership, you will act as a trusted finance partner to a group of senior stakeholders, supporting commercial performance, financial planning, and project profitability.

You will play a key role in improving business performance through financial insight, forecasting, commercial analysis, and enhanced financial controls.
This role would particularly suit someone coming from a professional services, project-based, construction, engineering, consultancy, architecture, or property-related environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leadership teams to provide meaningful financial insight across projects and business operations
• Monitor financial performance throughout the full project lifecycle, from tender stage through to delivery and completion
• Review project budgets, fee structures, labour costs, subcontractor spend, and margins
• Analyse project performance and identify commercial risks including profitability concerns, scope creep, write-offs, under-recovery, and delivery delays
• Support effective billing, WIP management, and debtor collection processes
• Provide commercial analysis and financial modelling to support pricing and proposal decisions
• Prepare forecasts covering revenue, margins, overheads, utilisation, and cash flow
• Support workforce planning and resource allocation through financial analysis and reporting
• Deliver monthly financial commentary, budget variance analysis, and performance insights to senior stakeholders
• Review contracts and commercial agreements to ensure strong financial outcomes
• Assist in evaluating new business opportunities, tenders, and commercial proposals
• Partner with the wider finance function to ensure robust project accounting, revenue recognition, and reporting accuracy
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, controls, reporting, and processes, including the use of technology and AI-driven efficiencies
• Support and mentor junior members of the finance team

About You

You will be a commercially minded finance professional who enjoys partnering with non-financial stakeholders and influencing decision-making.
Qualifications

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent)
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related discipline preferred

Experience

• 5+ years PQE within a Finance Business Partnering, Commercial Finance, or Project Finance role.
• Experience working within a project-based professional services environment highly desirable.
• Strong background in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and commercial analysis.
• Solid understanding of project accounting, WIP, revenue recognition, and margin analysis.
• Experience working closely with senior stakeholders and influencing business decisions.

Technical Skills

• Strong financial modelling and analytical capability.
• Advanced Excel skills essential.
• Experience with reporting and visualisation tools such as Power BI advantageous.

What’s on Offer

• Competitive salary package.
• Performance-related bonus.
• Hybrid working model.
• Pension contribution.
• Strong learning & development support, including professional education assistance.
• Income protection and life cover.
• Enhanced family leave policies.
• Tax saver and bike to work schemes.
• Active social and wellbeing initiatives.

Why Apply?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic, growing organisation where finance is viewed as a true commercial partner to the business.

You’ll gain exposure to senior leadership, complex project environments, and strategic decision-making while having genuine influence on business performance.

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