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Job Title: Financial Accountant
Function/Department: Finance & BI
Reporting To: Group Financial Controller
Location: Dundalk HQ (on-site)
Roles and Responsibilities:
This is a key role within the Finance team, responsible for delivering accurate and timely financial reporting. The Financial Accountant will take ownership of core month-end processes, balance sheet integrity, and regulatory returns while supporting the wider Finance team.
The successful candidate will join the BOYLE Sports Finance team at a time of positive strategic growth and will become a core part of the Finance team supporting and driving that growth. You will prioritise your own and your team’s workload and tasks to ensure all deadlines are achieved. You will maintain and further develop a Finance Business Partner approach and structure within the wider organisation, supporting all Business Channels with value-add, informative, and insightful information and reports, in a results and profit-driven organisation, that has its values of Dynamic, Fearless, Excellence, and Personal at its core.
Core Role Responsibilities:
- Processing of monthly journals for Retail and Online revenue, salaries, accruals, and prepayments.
- Assist the Finance Managers with producing monthly management accounts for the Retail and Online business that are both accurate and timely, including identification and analysis of material variances to Budget and Prior year.
- Preparation of the quarterly betting duty returns and liaising with Revenue/HMRC where necessary.
- Monthly/Quarterly reconciliation of all Balance Sheet accounts, including relevant schedules.
- Maintain the fixed asset register for all companies within the BOYLE Sports Group.
- Work closely with various internal departments, e.g., Accounts payable and Treasury to ensure all costs have been recorded correctly.
- Provide insight and analysis for cost optimization initiatives and drive a change culture where appropriate.
- Support the preparation of statutory financial statements and year-end reporting under FRS 102.
- Liaise with external auditors, ensuring audit readiness and timely resolution of queries.
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Core Role Requirements:
- Maintain relationships and develop a Finance Business Partner support structure within the organisation.
- Honesty, Integrity, and Professionalism.
- Confidentiality.
- To instill confidence in all reports and management information distributed.
- Continuous Professional Development.
- Continuous process improvement.
- Excellent Organisational Skills.
Application must have’s:
- Qualified Accountant (ACA or ACCA preference).
- 5+ years’ experience in a similar position.
Requirements:
- Experience of working within a fast-paced, ever-changing industry.
- Ability to adapt.
- Ability to work with volume data.
- Deadline-oriented.
- Accurate, with an eye for attention to detail.
- Supervision and people development skills.
- Ability to prioritise and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- A solution-focused attitude with the ability to communicate effectively across all levels within the business.
- Strong IT skills including a proficiency in Excel.
- Straight-talking yet professional in their communication style.
- Flexibility with regard to working hours.
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Company:
BOYLE Sports is an international sports betting and gaming company, with an extensive online business and retail portfolio. Founded by John Boyle in 1982, the Irish family-owned firm has grown to become Ireland’s largest and most successful independently-owned bookmaker and has over 390 shops across Ireland and the UK. Its Head Office is located on the outskirts of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland and the company currently employs over 2,700 employees across Ireland, the UK, and Gibraltar. BOYLE Sports offers a world-class betting and gaming experience with a ‘Customer First’ approach, committed to bringing customers closer to the action. Its mission is boosted by a rich sponsorship portfolio – the company is a proud principal sponsor of West Ham United Football Club and it stays at the heart of the action all year round by backing some of sport’s most prestigious events, including the Irish Grand National, the Irish Greyhound Derby, and the World Grand Prix of Darts.
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