Management Accountant

About Ashgrove:

With over 25 years of experience, Ashgrove Renewables is a leading force in Ireland’s renewable energy sector, delivering innovative, energy-efficient solutions to homes and businesses nationwide.

As a trusted SEAI-registered contractor and One Stop Shop partner, we continue to grow our impact across Ireland’s sustainable energy landscape.

Position Summary:

Based at our Mallow HQ, this is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business where finance plays a key role in driving performance and shaping decisions.

Working closely with the Financial Controller and operational teams, you’ll take ownership of management reporting, strengthen financial controls, improve project cost management and help develop smarter, more efficient finance processes.

The position offers exposure to multiple revenue streams, project-based accounting, grant-related cash flows and evolving reporting systems, making it well suited to an accountant who wants to develop their commercial and analytical capabilities.

This role would suit a qualified or part-qualified accountant who enjoys working closely with operational teams and using financial information to support business decisions.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

### Management Reporting

Prepare monthly management accounts (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow).

Prepare and post month-end accruals, prepayments and journals, and complete balance-sheet reconciliations and intercompany eliminations.

Analyse actuals against budget, forecast, and prior periods; explain variances to management.

Develop management dashboards and KPIs, and assist the Financial Controller in preparing monthly reports for senior management and the Board.

Work with the Stores team to reconcile inventory records to the general ledger and investigate material differences.

### Project and Job Costing

Monitor project financial performance across multiple revenue streams, including income, actual costs, committed costs and margins.

Review labour, material, and subcontractor costs against budgets; identify cost overruns and unrecorded liabilities at early stage.

Partner with project managers to ensure accurate cost allocation.

Review work in progress, accrued income, deferred income and project completion estimates, ensuring that appropriate adjustments are reflected in the monthly accounts.

### Budgeting and Forecasting

Support the Financial Controller in annual budgeting and maintain rolling forecasts for revenue, margins, overheads, and cash flow.

Monitor performance against plans alongside department heads.

Prepare scenario and sensitivity analyses, including workforce and capacity models, to support operational and investment decisions.

### Cash-Flow and Working-Capital Management

Analyse debtors, creditors, work in progress, accrued income and other working-capital balances.

Maintain accurate reconciliations of grant-related receipts and liabilities.

Maintain clear reporting on restricted funds and unrestricted cash available for general business operations.

Identify emerging cash-flow pressures and recommend practical corrective actions.

### Financial Controls and Compliance

Maintain effective financial controls, complete balance-sheet account reconciliations and assist with VAT returns and other statutory filings.

Support year-end audit preparation, respond to auditor queries and liaise with external accountants, auditors and tax advisers.

Help ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, tax requirements and company policies.

Maintain fixed-asset registers and lease schedules.

### Systems and Process Improvement

Support the effective use of Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Zoho Analytics and related applications.

Identify opportunities to automate or streamline financial reporting and transactional processes.

Support the responsible adoption of automation and AI-enabled tools where they can reduce manual processing, improve data quality or strengthen financial controls.

Document accounting processes and contribute to the development of finance standard operating procedures.

### Business Partnering

Work closely with Operations, Stores, Sales and other departments to provide practical commercial and financial support.

Support pricing and business cases, drive accountability, and handle ad hoc analyses.

Undertake additional financial analysis and improvement projects as requested by the Financial Controller or senior management.

### Requirements

Essential requirements

Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA). Part-qualified candidates must have at least three years’ relevant finance experience, including direct involvement in preparing monthly management accounts.

A solid background in management accounting, financial accounting or commercial finance, with the ability to produce accurate and timely monthly management accounts

Practical and demonstrable knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and month-end accounting, including accruals, prepayments, journals and balance-sheet reconciliations.

Strong Excel skills and the ability to build and maintain financial models.

The analytical ability to interpret complex financial information, identify key trends and risks, and communicate findings clearly.

A high level of accuracy, organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to manage deadlines and competing priorities.

Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.

A commercial mindset, with the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively, identify opportunities for improvement and support non-finance teams.

Desirable requirements

A background in construction, renewable energy, engineering, retrofit or another project-based industry.

Practical knowledge of project accounting, job costing, work-in-progress calculations and project margin analysis.

Familiarity with cash-flow forecasting, working-capital management and inventory accounting.

Exposure to Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Zoho Analytics or comparable finance and reporting systems.

An ability to develop management dashboards, automate financial reporting and improve the accuracy and efficiency of finance processes.

Previous involvement in a fast-growing, multi-departmental organisation, ideally with close collaboration between finance and operational teams.

### Benefits

Attractive salary commensurate with experience

Company Pension

Performance bonus

Paid company leave

Bike to Work Scheme

On-site parking

Further educational support, training and development opportunities

* Paid company leave

Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or CPA).