Financial Auditor | Pobal

Financial Audit -Hybrid - Public Sector

Staffline Recruitment Ireland is currently partnering with a Public Sector body to recruit a Financial Auditor to take up a key permanent position within their Compliance, Audit and Risk team.

This organisation's head office is located in Dublin City Centre but due to the nature of this role, they are seeking to recruit a candidate who can be based in Cork, Galway or Limerick.

The role will offer a very flexible mix of office and remote working but with the requirement to attend Head Office for meetings as required.

The role:

Working as part of a team, the successful applicant will be responsible for conducting audit and verification checks across a range of government funded programmes by ensuring that monies are spent for the purposes intended and that key conditions attached to the funding are complied with.

A key requirement is to provide objective and constructive feedback to organisations to assist them with improvements in areas such as record-keeping and governance standards. Therefore, the ability to communicate clearly, succinctly, and effectively, both verbally and in writing, is critical.

Depending on business needs, the successful applicant will work interchangeably across a diverse range of business areas, including routine verification checks, routine audits, targeted risk audits and governance assessments, which focus on key policies and procedures. A high degree of flexibility is expected and the ability to work autonomously in a diverse range of locations is essential.

Key responsibilities:

• Conduct routine verification and/or audit checks on a wide variety of government funded organisations to ensure programme funding is spent for the purposes intended.
• Evaluate the accounting systems of funded organisations, to ensure transparent audit trail between expenditure returns submitted and financial records maintained.
• Assess the eligibility of all monies spent to ensure they comply with the terms and conditions of programme rules.
• Monitor actual expenditure against agreed budgets and highlight any significant variances.
• Assess systems of internal control.
• Evaluate performance outputs and value for money issues.
• Assess annual financial statements and other returns submitted to the Companies Registration Office
• Maintain knowledge of key Government requirements to the management of grant aid, including Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 13/2014.
• Conduct and/or assist with risk audits where specific problems affecting Pobal funding are suspected or identified.
• Maintain logs of ineligible expenditure identified, debtor schedules, etc. and provide inputs to reports for Government departments and other stakeholders.
• Communicate and follow-up with external organisations as appropriate in a professional and timely manner.
• Communicate and follow up any internal issues arising from the verification/audit process, including adjustments to expenditure reports and matters relevant to funding applications.
• Proactively contribute to team meetings in the interest of promoting shared learning and best practice.
• Provide assistance to management in developing/updating procedures, processes, checklists and reporting templates
• Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders.

Interested applicants will meet the following requirements:

• Professional recognised accounting qualification and external/internal audit Applications from other candidates with good academic backgrounds plus relevant auditing experience and / or forensic accounting may also be considered.
• 2-3 years of post qualification financial audit experience.
• Full driving licence and provision of car for business purposes for travel primarily within the Republic of Ireland.
• Detail oriented, self-motivated with a proven track record of achievement.
• An ability to work autonomously and guarantee an extremely high level of quality and accuracy
• Proficient in MS packages - Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.
• Evidence of producing high quality reports and written materials.
• Strong financial management experience and knowledge.
• Previous experience of conducting in-depth financial reviews or audits, for example, forensic accounting, collation of data based on incomplete records.

If you are interested in being considered for this role, please send a copy of your cv for review to Laura Craughwell at Staffline Recruitment via the enclosed link. The closing date for applications is October 17^th at 12.00pm.

This permanent position that will have a salary scale of €57,123 - €71,939, depending on experience.

For further information or to discuss in confidence, call Laura directly on 086 1409232.