GEMMA MURPHY

Group Financial Controller
<h1>At a Glance</h1>
&bull; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Full Time, Permanent
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Belfast, [Hybrid]
<h1>About the Company</h1>
Our client is a privately owned, Belfast-headquartered group with a portfolio of operating businesses across the UK, Ireland and continental Europe. The group spans technology, media and leisure, and is entrepreneurial, fast moving and backed by an owner with a strong track record of building businesses.
With continued investment and new ventures in the pipeline, the group is now strengthening its central finance function.
<h1>The Role</h1>
This is the senior, day-to-day finance lead for the whole group, reporting directly to the Group CFO. You will own group reporting and consolidation across multiple entities and currencies, run the cash position and banking, and lead a small team spread across two locations.
The group already runs on modern, cloud-based finance systems, so the focus is on building on strong foundations, driving automation and supporting the CFO on growth projects, funding and acquisitions. For the right person, there is a clear path to CFO.
<h1>Key Responsibilities</h1>
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lead the month-end close and group consolidation across multiple entities
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Manage intercompany accounting and multi-currency reporting (sterling and euro)
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Own the group cash flow forecast, banking relationships and payment approvals
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lead, coach and develop a small, growing finance team across two sites
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Prepare clear management reporting and analysis for the CFO and leadership team
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drive automation and smarter use of technology across the finance function
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Support the CFO on fundraising, acquisitions and new business set-ups
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coordinate year-end, audit and statutory reporting across the group
<h1>What You'll Need</h1>
Essential:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strong experience of multi-entity consolidation, intercompany and multi-currency reporting
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cash flow forecasting and banking experience
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience leading or supervising a finance team
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Confident with cloud accounting systems and keen to drive process improvement
Desirable:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial or owner-managed group
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Exposure to acquisitions, fundraising or setting up new entities
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Background in technology, media or leisure businesses
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience with Xero or similar cloud platforms and reporting tools
<h1>Why Apply</h1>
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senior group role reporting directly to the CFO, with a genuine route to CFO
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Broad remit across several businesses, sectors and countries
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Modern systems already in place, with real scope to shape automation and AI use
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Close involvement in growth projects, funding and acquisitions
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Entrepreneurial environment where your impact is visible
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Group Financial Controller 

Senior Data Engineer (Python / ETL / Entity Resolution)
<ul>
<li>Senior,&nbsp;hands-on&nbsp;data&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;role&nbsp;with&nbsp;genuine&nbsp;ownership&nbsp;of&nbsp;production&nbsp;pipelines</li>
<li>Python,&nbsp;SQL,&nbsp;AWS&nbsp;and&nbsp;Docker,&nbsp;with&nbsp;exposure&nbsp;to&nbsp;entity&nbsp;resolution,&nbsp;ML&nbsp;and&nbsp;NLP</li>
<li>Flexible&nbsp;depending&nbsp;on&nbsp;experience</li>
<li>Solve&nbsp;hard,&nbsp;real-world&nbsp;data&nbsp;problems&nbsp;for&nbsp;banks,&nbsp;governments&nbsp;and&nbsp;regulated&nbsp;organisations</li>
<li>&pound; 70-&nbsp; 90k plus bonus</li>
</ul>
About the Company
Our client builds identity, entity resolution and risk intelligence platforms used by banks, governments and regulated organisations to understand exactly who they are doing business with. Their software combines large-scale data processing, entity resolution, graph intelligence and modern cloud architecture. They are a small, high-trust engineering team with very little bureaucracy, where data quality sits at the heart of everything the product does.
The Role
You will join as a senior engineer working directly alongside the Principal Data Engineer, owning the pipelines that power an entity resolution platform processing millions of records. This is not a role for moving data between databases, you will be resolving identities and relationships across messy, overlapping datasets where correctness and performance genuinely matter.
You will take loosely defined problems from investigation through to production, with real influence over architecture and engineering standards. The client has a dedicated platform team, so you will deploy and operate your own workloads on AWS without carrying the heavy DevOps load. It suits someone who enjoys clean, pragmatic engineering and wants their work to make a visible difference to the product.
Key Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Own&nbsp;and&nbsp;evolve&nbsp;the&nbsp;Python&nbsp;ETL/ELT&nbsp;pipelines&nbsp;that&nbsp;ingest,&nbsp;normalise&nbsp;and&nbsp;enrich&nbsp;large,&nbsp;complex&nbsp;datasets</li>
<li>Build&nbsp;and&nbsp;optimise&nbsp;data&nbsp;preparation&nbsp;workflows&nbsp;for&nbsp;entity&nbsp;resolution,&nbsp;from&nbsp;source&nbsp;mapping&nbsp;and&nbsp;record&nbsp;preparation&nbsp;to&nbsp;ingestion&nbsp;and&nbsp;downstream&nbsp;extraction</li>
<li>Integrate&nbsp;structured,&nbsp;semi-structured&nbsp;and&nbsp;unstructured&nbsp;data&nbsp;from&nbsp;external&nbsp;providers,&nbsp;APIs,&nbsp;databases&nbsp;and&nbsp;documents</li>
<li>Design&nbsp;robust&nbsp;data&nbsp;quality&nbsp;and&nbsp;validation&nbsp;processes&nbsp;covering&nbsp;completeness,&nbsp;duplication,&nbsp;provenance&nbsp;and&nbsp;integrity</li>
<li>Build&nbsp;reliable&nbsp;batch&nbsp;and&nbsp;asynchronous&nbsp;processing&nbsp;with&nbsp;sound&nbsp;scheduling,&nbsp;retries,&nbsp;idempotency&nbsp;and&nbsp;failure&nbsp;recovery</li>
<li>Containerise&nbsp;and&nbsp;deploy&nbsp;Python&nbsp;data&nbsp;workloads&nbsp;using&nbsp;Docker&nbsp;and&nbsp;AWS</li>
<li>Develop&nbsp;data&nbsp;preparation&nbsp;pipelines&nbsp;supporting&nbsp;machine&nbsp;learning,&nbsp;OCR&nbsp;and&nbsp;NLP&nbsp;use&nbsp;cases</li>
<li>Implement&nbsp;observability&nbsp;across&nbsp;your&nbsp;pipelines,&nbsp;including&nbsp;structured&nbsp;logging,&nbsp;metrics&nbsp;and&nbsp;alerting</li>
<li>Contribute&nbsp;to&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;decisions,&nbsp;code&nbsp;reviews&nbsp;and&nbsp;technical&nbsp;documentation</li>
</ul>
What You'll Need
Essential
<ul>
<li>3+&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;professional&nbsp;data&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;or&nbsp;software&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;experience,&nbsp;with&nbsp;hands-on&nbsp;responsibility&nbsp;for&nbsp;production&nbsp;data&nbsp;systems</li>
<li>Strong&nbsp;Python,&nbsp;writing&nbsp;well-structured,&nbsp;maintainable,&nbsp;production-quality&nbsp;code</li>
<li>Proven&nbsp;experience&nbsp;building&nbsp;ETL/ELT&nbsp;pipelines&nbsp;for&nbsp;complex&nbsp;or&nbsp;high-volume&nbsp;datasets</li>
<li>Strong&nbsp;SQL&nbsp;and&nbsp;experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;relational&nbsp;databases&nbsp;such&nbsp;as&nbsp;PostgreSQL</li>
<li>Solid&nbsp;grounding&nbsp;in&nbsp;data&nbsp;modelling,&nbsp;schema&nbsp;design,&nbsp;normalisation&nbsp;and&nbsp;validation</li>
<li>Practical&nbsp;experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;Docker&nbsp;and&nbsp;AWS&nbsp;services&nbsp;such&nbsp;as&nbsp;S3,&nbsp;SQS,&nbsp;EC2&nbsp;or&nbsp;Lambda</li>
<li>Experience&nbsp;with&nbsp;automated&nbsp;testing,&nbsp;CI/CD&nbsp;and&nbsp;version&nbsp;control</li>
<li>Based&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;UK&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;right&nbsp;to&nbsp;work&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;UK</li>
</ul>
Nice to have
<ul>
<li>Entity&nbsp;resolution,&nbsp;record&nbsp;linkage,&nbsp;deduplication&nbsp;or&nbsp;fuzzy&nbsp;matching&nbsp;experience</li>
<li>Data&nbsp;science&nbsp;or&nbsp;ML&nbsp;exposure,&nbsp;such&nbsp;as&nbsp;scikit-learn,&nbsp;PyTorch,&nbsp;spaCy&nbsp;or&nbsp;OCR&nbsp;tooling</li>
<li>Kubernetes&nbsp;(ideally&nbsp;EKS)&nbsp;or&nbsp;a&nbsp;background&nbsp;in&nbsp;KYC/AML,&nbsp;fraud&nbsp;or&nbsp;other&nbsp;regulated&nbsp;data&nbsp;environments</li>
</ul>
Why Apply ?
<ul>
<li>Excellent&nbsp;salary,&nbsp;depending&nbsp;on&nbsp;experience</li>
<li>Work&nbsp;on&nbsp;genuinely&nbsp;difficult&nbsp;technical&nbsp;problems&nbsp;rather&nbsp;than&nbsp;routine&nbsp;data&nbsp;plumbing</li>
<li>High&nbsp;ownership&nbsp;and&nbsp;real&nbsp;influence&nbsp;over&nbsp;the&nbsp;systems&nbsp;you&nbsp;build,&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;team&nbsp;with&nbsp;minimal&nbsp;bureaucracy</li>
<li>Work&nbsp;directly&nbsp;alongside&nbsp;a&nbsp;Principal&nbsp;Data&nbsp;Engineer,&nbsp;with&nbsp;strong&nbsp;opportunities&nbsp;to&nbsp;grow&nbsp;your&nbsp;technical&nbsp;depth</li>
<li>Modern&nbsp;stack&nbsp;spanning&nbsp;Python,&nbsp;AWS,&nbsp;Kubernetes,&nbsp;entity&nbsp;resolution,&nbsp;ML&nbsp;and&nbsp;LLM-based&nbsp;extraction</li>
</ul>
Interested? Connect with Ryan Quinn on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/ryanquinnocho) or send your CV via the link below.

Senior Data Engineer

Head of Finance Operations
<h1>At a Glance</h1>
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Full Time, Permanent&nbsp;
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Office-based in Belfast, with travel to other group sites
&bull; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &pound;80,000 - &pound;90,000
<h1>About the Company</h1>
Our client is a well-established, family-owned group based in Northern Ireland. It operates multiple sites across several people-focused service businesses, employing a large workforce.
The group has strong values and a reputation for quality, and is continuing to grow, including through acquisition.
<h1>The Role</h1>
Reporting to the Group Finance Director, you will own day-to-day finance delivery across the group. That covers monthly management accounts for each business and the consolidated group, balance sheet integrity, cash flow and leadership of the finance team.
This is a hands-on role with real commercial influence. Workforce cost is the biggest lever in the business, and you will help managers understand performance, control costs and improve results, while modernising the systems that link rotas, time and attendance and payroll.
<h1>Key Responsibilities</h1>
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Own the monthly close and management accounts for each business and the consolidated group
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Explain performance against budget, forecast and prior year in clear operational terms
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Maintain fully reconciled balance sheets, accruals, prepayments and intercompany balances
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lead and develop the finance team across AP, AR, reconciliations and payroll support
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Run a rolling cash flow forecast and oversee debtors, collections and supplier payments
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strengthen controls over billing, collections and payroll adjustments
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Report workforce and agency costs by business, site and role
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coordinate budgets and forecasts and build KPI reporting for each business
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Improve finance, rostering and payroll systems and their integration
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coordinate year-end, audit and tax, and support integration of acquired businesses
<h1>What You'll Need</h1>
Essential:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience preparing management accounts across multiple entities or sites
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strong technical accounting and a disciplined approach to balance sheet reconciliation
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience leading or supervising a finance team
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Budgeting, forecasting, cash flow and working capital experience
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strong Excel and confidence working with operational data
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ability to explain financial performance clearly to non-finance colleagues
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Track record of improving processes and fixing control weaknesses
&nbsp;
Desirable:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience in a labour-intensive, multi-site business such as hospitality, health or care services
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience in a family-owned or growing business
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Familiarity with Sage, purchasing systems or time and attendance systems
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience improving payroll controls, system integrations or acquisition reporting
<h1>Why Apply</h1>
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senior role with real ownership of the finance function, reporting to the Group FD
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Variety across several distinct businesses, each with its own KPIs
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Genuine scope to modernise systems and leave a lasting mark
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stable, family-owned group with strong values and continued growth
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Training, career development, employee assistance programme and free parking
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