Financial Accountant

Summary

Join Brightflag's growing Finance team as a recently qualified Financial Accountant. Reporting to the Financial Controller, you will gain broad experience in accounting, financial reporting, and finance operations. This fast-paced, high-growth tech start-up offers ample career progression opportunities. You will contribute to month-end close processes, provide financial analysis, manage cash flow reporting, and handle accounts receivable. The role involves collaboration with internal teams and external auditors. Brightflag offers a competitive salary, share options, flexible work arrangements, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant; 0-1 years PQE; ideally big 4
• Understanding and ability to apply IFRS (especially revenue recognition)
• Excellent numerical ability and attention to detail
• Strong systems skills
• Positive mindset and a willingness to learn
• Proactive, organized and the desire to work in a fast-paced scaling international organization
• Team player who thrives working in a fast paced environment
• Adaptable and driven with the ability to work independently

Responsibilities

• Assist with the month end financial close process, working with other finance team members, to ensure results are delivered accurately and on time
• Provide detailed and insightful analysis to support forecasting & planning
• Own the group cash flow reporting process
• Take ownership of the AR function
• Liaise with our payroll partners and the financial controller to ensure payroll changes are applied, errors corrected, and our teams in Ireland, the US and Australia get paid on time
• Liaise with external auditors, oversee their interactions and with the Financial Controller ensure they are completed on schedule
• Processing bank payments
• Supporting various ad-hoc projects and assisting other Brightflag staff with their finance queries

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience and/or familiarity with SaaS and/or subscription metrics billing (either through audit or industry)
• Previous experience using NetSuite

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Share options
• 25 days holidays + 4 company ‘Reset’ days throughout the year
• Comprehensive health insurance, life insurance and long term illness/income protection
• Fully flexible work location and work patterns so you can balance life at home with life at work - come to the office, work at home… or enjoy a blend of both at your discretion
• Learning subsidy of €2,000 annually to spend as you wish, plus study and examination leave where applicable
• Our ‘bookworm’ program also enables you to order a book a month.. on us!
• The Tax-Saver or Cycle-to-Work Scheme
• Wellbeing program & stipend
• Home office set-up supports