DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
Full-Time, Permanent Contract
St. Michael's House (SMH) is a leading Section 38 organisation in the field of intellectual disability in Ireland and has a turnover of over €133M; a staff complement of over 1,850 employees and delivers services to over 2300 children and adults, their families, and carers in over 200 locations across the greater Dublin area.
St. Michael’s House has a research partnership with UCD and runs QQI accredited programmes of education up to and including Honours Degree Level through its Open Training College.
SMH works with Service Users to understand their needs and wishes and to help them achieve their goals. The organisations vision is a society in which people of every ability can live the life of their choosing. Respect, Kindness, Honesty, Excellence and Creativity represent SMH’s core values.
The Role
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, The Director of Finance has overall responsibility for the leadership and development and effective management of the finance functions of the organisation, including the production of the annual finance budget, the management of cash flow and the production of management information for the CEO, the Executive Management Team (EMT), the Audit and Finance Committee, the Board and the HSE.
As part of the HSE Finance program St. Michael’s House is now using an Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) SAP S/4HANA to unify finance, procurement, and budget management across the organisation.
The role also involves working closely with the Chief Executive by contributing fully to the development of the organisation’s strategy across all areas, challenging assumptions, and decision-making as appropriate, and providing financial analysis and guidance on all activities, plans, targets, and business drivers.
The Director of Finance will also ensure the regulatory requirements of all statutory bodies are met as well as internal and external audits.
Essential Requirements:
- Must be eligible to work in Ireland and hold the necessary authorisation to work full time without restrictions.
Essential Education:
- Educated with relevant Third Level Qualification – Qualified Accountant.
Desirable Education
- A post graduate management or business qualification.
Essential Experience
- A high degree of analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills in financial and business management.
- Substantial experience of managing a service organisation within the health or social care fields.
- Experience of managing staff and other resources.
- Excellent process management and organisational skills.
- An ability to work under pressure and achieve tight deadlines with attention to detail.
- Project Management skills.
- Strong communication skills including influencing, persuading and problem solving.
- Excellent IT skills.
- An ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Excellent knowledge of Public Sector accounting and financial management systems, or the ability to quickly acquire such knowledge is desirable.
Desirable Experience
- Experience using a SAP enabled accounting system would be desirable. The Director of Finance will provide strategic leadership across all financial operations within a SAP enabled accounting environment, ensuring compliance with public sector financial governance, audit requirements, and statutory reporting.
Essential Requirements:
- Must be eligible to work in Ireland and hold the necessary authorisation to work full time without restrictions.
Please check the information booklet attached for more details.
REMUNERATION
HSE Grade General Manager pt.1: €87,471 to pt.7: €108,804
Should you have no prior public sector experience you will be placed on point 1 of the pay-scale above.
HOW TO APPLY
All the below must be received, via Rezoomo only before the application is deemed complete:
- A comprehensive CV, detailing education, skills, career history, experience.
- A detailed cover letter outlining why you wish to be considered for the post and where you believe your skills, experience and values meet the requirements of the position of Director of Finance for St. Michael’s House.
Closing date: 4th September 2026 at 5 pm
- The first round of interviews will be scheduled to take place on 14th September 2026.
- Second-round interviews will be scheduled on 20th September 2026
- All interviews as part of this recruitment process will be conducted onsite at the designated location. Remote, virtual or online interviews will not be facilitated.
- Where a candidate is unable to attend an onsite interview, they will not be considered eligible to progress through this recruitment process.
Please Note: St. Michael’s House endeavours to give as much notice as possible for interview dates etc. Candidates should make themselves available on the date(s) specified by the organisation.
If you have informal enquires, please contact by email to Tara Molloy, CEO at [email protected]
Please note that any offer of employment will be made subject to satisfactory reference checks as well as any other background checks or assessments considered appropriate to the process.
Candidates should note that canvassing will disqualify them.
St. Michael’s House is an equal opportunities employer
