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Job Type: Permanent
Location: Letterkenny GDC, Co. Donegal (Fully onsite)
Join a global tech leader right here in Donegal. With over 850 employees and a state-of-the-art global delivery centre, we’re proud to offer world-class career opportunities without having to leave the Northwest. Recognised as Workplace of the Year by the Letterkenny Chamber, we foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and respect. Our people are at the heart of everything we do – collaborating across teams, geographies, and disciplines to drive real change for clients around the world. Be part of something global, grounded in Donegal.
Careers at TCS: It means more
TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.
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Be part of an exciting team who challenge themselves every day.
- Collaborate with customers and stakeholders.
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Work with customers and identify opportunities to support their strategy and improve their processes across functions
The Role
TCS are hiring a ‘Head of Finance’ for a national account. The successful candidate will join the MyFuture Fund team in our Letterkenny Offices and lead our Accounting and Financial Operations functions.
The ‘Head of Finance’ will ensure that transactions are generated and sent to the enterprise general ledger at pre-agreed intervals (real-time, end of day etc.). The successful candidate will be responsible for the generation of expected and confirmed cashflows, which will be sent to the finance system for reconciliation activities.
The position will be responsible for delivering accurate Trial Balance (TB) outputs and management accounts support for Life & Pensions activity, where the General Ledger (GL) sits in a separate finance system. The successful candidate will be responsible for reconciliations, journals, interface controls and suspense management, and for handling client correspondence relating to reconciled positions.
This role is non-statutory (TB + management accounts only). It does not include statutory accounts preparation or external financial reporting.
Key responsibilities:
The below outlines the main areas of responsibility:
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Deliver BAU month-end close activities to agreed timelines, ensuring accurate TB outputs and supporting schedules.
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Prepare and post routine month-end journals in the GL (e.g., accruals, prepayments, reclasses, corrections, true-ups).
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Produce standard monthly schedules and basic variance analysis/commentary (key drivers, exceptions, trends).
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Maintain close checklists, working files and evidence packs to support internal review and control standards.
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Prepare and maintain reconciliations
- Investigate reconciling items end-to-end, ensuring timely resolution within agreed SLAs and ageing targets.
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Identify recurring issues and escalate with clear root cause analysis and practical recommendations.
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Support accounting/MI for contributions, refunds, transfers in/out, benefit payments, and administration fees/charges.
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Assist with transaction exceptions and operational discrepancies (e.g., incorrect coding, timing differences, missing postings) through understanding of the transaction journey
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Act as a finance point of contact for client queries relating to reconciled balances and month-end positions, timing differences and interface-related items. standard MI outputs (e.g., contributions/benefits summaries, exceptions, break status)
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Draft clear, professional, evidence-based responses in non-technical language using agreed templates and reconciliation support.
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Ensure strong control evidence is maintained for reconciliations, journals and interface checks.
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Keep SOPs/process notes up to date (especially interface controls and reconciliation methodology).
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Identify and implement practical BAU improvements (standard templates, improved break logs, Excel automation/Power Query, reduction of manual journals).
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Address internal/external audit requirements
- Own BAU interface control checks between sub-ledger and the GL to ensure completeness & accuracy and liaise with IT support/vendor and internal change teams to investigate and progress fixes
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Support testing for small releases impacting finance feeds (test evidence + reconciliation of results).
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Performance management, training and coaching of junior resources and services
Key skills/knowledge/experience:
- Qualified accountant (ACCA/CPA/CMA) with extensive experience in Finance & Accounts
- Proven experience supporting TB-level outputs and management accounts in a BAU close environment.
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Strong experience preparing journals, schedules and performing rigorous reconciliations.
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Ability to investigate discrepancies, document outcomes and drive resolution.
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Experience working across a sub-ledger to GL operating model and comfortable navigating both Sub Ledger outputs/extracts/finance feeds and the finance GL (journal posting, dimensions, TB structure).
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Strong Excel capability (pivot tables, lookups, data cleansing; Power Query desirable).
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Confident communicator with experience handling client/stakeholder queries and translating finance outcomes into clear explanations.
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Organised and service-oriented; ability to track actions and close queries within agreed timescales.
Good to have:
- Prior experience in the Irish Pension industry would be an advantage
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Knowledge of Oracle Financial applications
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Knowledge of life & pensions transaction flows (contributions, benefits, transfers, fees/charges).
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Experience in high-volume transaction environments and suspense account management.
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Experience supporting UAT or change activity affecting finance feeds/mappings
Rewards & Benefits
TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop and access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.
We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon and partner with our local communities in Ireland.
Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing
Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Ireland Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011 (as amended) and the Equal Status Acts 2000-2012 (as amended).
We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at
[email protected] if you would like to opt in.
If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us
at [email protected] with the subject line: “Adjustment Request” or email
[email protected] to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.
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