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Recruiting for financial controller position at Big Red Cloud

By 28th August 2015April 5th, 2022No Comments

Big Red Cloud, the market leaders in the provision of simple and easy online accounts software for small businesses, requires a commercially minded qualified accountant, to take full responsibility for the Finance Function. This role has a strong emphasis on commercial finance, and will be instrumental in shaping the future direction of the business and long term plans in a challenging market place.

What are we looking for?

  • Qualified Accountant with full membership of one of the recognised accounting bodies.
  • A minimum of three years post qualified experience
  • Strong analytical and data interpretation skills
  • Strong IT skills
  • Experience in the configuration and use of computerized accounting systems would be an advantage
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to influence key stakeholders
  • Ability to work through detail but also to focus on the bigger picture

This is an excellent career development opportunity for an exceptional, energetic and dynamic professional with a strong commercial leadership focus to optimize profitability and revenue growth.

We promise not to ask you any of the 10 challenging interview questions from this blog post.

Please contact careers@bigredcloud.com/ with a brief email to apply for the position of financial controller, accompanied by your CV.

Marc O'Dwyer

Marc O'Dwyer

After completing a Graduate program in Marketing, Marc’s impressive sales career began at Allied Irish Banks, Pitney Bowes and Panasonic where he received numerous Irish and European sales performance awards and consistently exceeded targets and expectations. In 1992, Marc’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to set up his own business, Irish International Sales (IIS). Initially, this company was a reseller for Take 5 Accounts and Payroll software. Within four years, IIS became the largest reseller of Take 5 in Ireland, acquiring four other Take 5 resellers. He also found time to set up two mobile phone shops under the Cellular World brand and a web design company offering website design services for small businesses. In 2001, he bought the majority share in a small Irish software business, Big Red Book. At that time, the company was losing money. The company became profitable within two months, and Marc then acquired a payroll company to compliment Big Red Books Accounting products. In 2003, IIS were appointed as Channel Partners with SAP for their new SME product, SAP Business One. Marc sold his Take 5 business and concentrated on developing this new market for SAP As a result, by 2007, IIS was recognised as the largest Channel Partner for SAP in EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa). In 2008, the IIS Sales Manager bought the Company from Marc in an MBO. He launched Big red cloud in June 2012, the online version of big red book, to date the company successfully converts 59% of trials into sales and the number of customers is growing rapidly. Marc continues to run both Big Red Book and Big Red Cloud which now support 75,000 businesses. He is a very keen sportsman, having played rugby for 20 years, represented Leinster at under 16 and under 20 levels, and league squash with Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club for 10 years. Marc has competed in 11 Marathons, including the London and Boston Marathons, and has completed several Triathlons and Half Ironman races. He has also completed six Ironman Races in Austria(x2), Frankfurt (Germany), Nice (France) , Mallorca (Spain) and Copenhagen (Denmark)

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