JOB DESCRIPTION
We are seeking a highly motivated Assistant Manager – Record-to-Report (R2R) to support the delivery of accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting and month-end close activities. This role plays a critical part in overseeing key accounting processes, reviewing financial information from multiple sources, and leading a team to ensure compliance with accounting standards, internal controls, and reporting requirements.
The successful candidate will serve as a key liaison between the finance operations team and senior stakeholders, driving operational excellence, strengthening financial controls, and contributing to process improvement and transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting & Month-End Close
- Review and approve month-end journal entries, including accruals, prepayments, payroll, and intercompany transactions.
- Review fixed asset subledger reconciliations to the General Ledger.
- Review and approve bank reconciliations, including FX postings related to foreign currency payments.
- Review accounting entries relating to leases, deferred revenue, inventory valuation, and share-based compensation.
- Oversee completion and review of balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring reconciling items are appropriately investigated and cleared.
- Perform and review variance analysis across Balance Sheet and P&L, identifying trends, risks, and required adjustments.
- Review shadow books and financial information received from local offices, ensuring all adjustments are supported by appropriate documentation.
- Review bridge files and financial statements, confirming alignment with the trial balance and completeness of supporting schedules.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and statutory reporting requirements.
- Support adherence to reporting deadlines and maintain high standards of financial accuracy.
- Maintain and continuously update process documentation.
- Identify opportunities for process efficiencies and system improvements.
- Support ERP implementations and finance transformation initiatives where required.
- Contribute to project management activities within the finance function.
- ACA / ACCA qualified with approximately 2-4 years’ post-qualification experience in a similar role.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in month-end close and financial reporting.
- Experience reviewing reconciliations and complex accounting areas.
- Ability to manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Advanced Excel skills with strong analytical capability.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
- Experience supervising or mentoring team members.
- Experience working with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle.
- Exposure to ERP implementation projects is desirable.
- Experience with BlackLine or similar reconciliation tools is advantageous.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
We are Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton Ireland is rapidly approaching 3,000 people, in 9 offices across Ireland, Isle of Man, Gibraltar and Bermuda. With a presence in over 149 countries around the world and a global network of 73,000 people, we bring our clients the local knowledge, national expertise and global presence to help them succeed – wherever they’re located.
At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed – wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right decisions for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter.
At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it.
A Career at GT
Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently.
What does this mean for you?
A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be.
Grow with us
At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.
Our Benefits
Please follow this link for information on our generous benefits package.
About The Team
Equity, diversity and inclusion
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.
We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.
Reward And Benefits
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.
Recognition
We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.
