Senior Financial Accountant

LearnUpon is looking for a Senior Financial Accountant to join our team in Dublin. This is a hybrid role, working 3 days per week from LearnUpon's Dublin’s office.

LearnUpon LMS helps organizations train their employees, partners, and customers. Businesses can manage, track, and achieve their unique learning goals — all through a single, powerful solution.

With offices in Dublin (our HQ), Belgrade, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Sydney, we are a global team with lots of diverse cultures, backgrounds, and experiences that puts our customers' experience at the heart of everything we do. Our culture fosters an open, collaborative and supportive environment where our accomplishments are celebrated and encouraged. We're always striving for the best solution (not the easy one). We’re proud of our success and we’re humble and hungry to achieve more. 

Our Finance team is vital to our Company and is responsible for keeping the financial operations of the company running smoothly. 

Reporting to the Financial Controller, this is a great opportunity for a self motivated individual to join a rapidly growing software company and make significant contributions.

What will I be doing?

• Lead the month-end close process to tight reporting deadlines, including posting of month end journals for all corporate entities.  
• Run the consolidation process on Netsuite 
• Prepare monthly Balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare monthly management reporting pack and perform flux analysis 
• Assist with the preparation of detailed expense analysis, comparisons to budget and breakdown of monthly spend
• Act as lead for the annual group audit and local statutory audits and compliance 
• Prepare periodic tax returns for the Irish Entity (Bi-monthly VAT, Quarterly VIES, Annual RTD) 
• Liaise with external international tax providers to ensure timely and accurate preparation of relevant local subsidiary tax returns
• Assist with treasury related activities ie monthly entity cash funding, cash forecasting 
• Support the implementation and documentation of internal controls across the organization
• Lead finance department process improvement projects 
• Drive automation and ERP efficiencies 
• Ad hoc projects and activities 

What skills do I need?                                                                                  

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA) with minimum of 3 years PQE 
• Comfortable with multiple entity consolidation and reporting 
• Excellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Comfortable taking ownership of the role and responsibilities.
• Confident with identifying improvements and solutions.
• A high degree of attention to detail and trustworthiness, with an ability to discover and proactively remedy discrepancies
• Results oriented, with proven ability to prioritize and deliver quality work in a challenging, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to execute with minimal supervision.
• Working knowledge of accounting software 
• Excellent communication skills.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box in order to apply, we’re always happy to review applications and take all experience into consideration. We do our best to provide feedback where we can!

Not required but considered a big plus

• Experience working with Netsuite

Why work with us?

• Competitive salary and company ESOP.
• Comprehensive private health insurance scheme and Company pension scheme.
• 25 days annual leave + 1 annual company wellness day off. 
• Work in a fun and supportive environment with regular team events.
• Excellent career progression - take LearnUpon where you think it can go.

What is the Hiring Process?

Our typical process generally works as follows:

• Qualified applicants will be invited to schedule a screening call.
• Successful candidates will then be invited to a series of practical interviews.
• Finally, candidates will have a short interview with a member of our C-Suite Team.
• The successful candidate will be contacted with an offer to join our team.

LearnUpon is an Equal Opportunities Employer. 

We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, family status, age disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, membership of the Traveller community, or any other legally protected status.

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