Chief Financial Officer

Permanent employee, Full-time · Hybrid, Dublin

Your mission
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) will be a strategic partner to the CEO, overseeing all financial activities while driving the company’s growth strategy. With a focus on financial leadership, planning, and operational excellence. We are currently experiencing hyper growth and the CFO will play a key role in navigating that growth. This role will involve leading financial reporting, business planning, leading operations, and M&A activities, while also serving as a key advisor to the CEO and leadership team in strategic decision-making.  
 
Key Responsibilities: 
 
Strategic Leadership and Accountability 
  • Drive cross-functional alignment across all departments, ensuring that leaders are accountable for delivering high-quality outputs aligned with the company’s strategic objectives.
  • Act as the primary internal link between all functions, facilitating communication, collaboration, and alignment to achieve organizational goals.
  • Lead the standardization of performance and output across all teams, ensuring consistent quality, efficiency, and adherence to company values and strategic priorities.
  • Collaborate with the CEO and other senior leaders to define, implement, and monitor strategic priorities and operational goals.
  • Serve as the final point of escalation for resolving operational bottlenecks.
 
Operational Excellence 
  • Oversee IT systems, infrastructure, and digital transformation initiatives, ensuring technology supports scalability, security, and operational excellence.
  • Oversee facilities management, ensuring optimal working environments that align with the organization’s culture and operational needs.
  • Develop and implement operational policies and best practices to drive efficiency and support scalability across all business units.
  • Lead business continuity planning and disaster recovery strategies, ensuring resilience against operational disruptions.
 
Financial Leadership 
  • Own and drive the financial strategy, ensuring alignment with long-term growth objectives and operational priorities.
  • Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance management, providing actionable insights and ensuring financial discipline across the organization.
  • Partner with department heads to ensure cost optimization and effective allocation of resources.
  • Develop and refine pricing models and margin analysis to maximize profitability and competitiveness.
  • Provide comprehensive financial reporting to the CEO, board, and stakeholders, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and actionable insights.
 
Governance and Compliance 
  • Ensure compliance with financial, legal, and regulatory standards, including corporate governance requirements.
  • Oversee and lead company-wide risk management efforts, identifying potential risks and implementing mitigation strategies.
  • Serve as the SteerCo representative for finance and operations, contributing to key decisions with strategic and financial insights.
  • Prepare board materials and lead presentations, ensuring transparency and alignment with governance expectations.
 
Growth and Strategic Initiatives 
  • Lead the evaluation and execution of M&A opportunities, ensuring alignment with strategic growth objectives.
  • Oversee market expansion and diversification initiatives, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals.
  • Identify and assess new revenue opportunities, collaborating with business development teams to explore and execute growth strategies.
Your profile
  • Proven track record of strategic financial and operational leadership, including oversight of budgeting, forecasting, M&A, and corporate governance in complex organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to align cross-functional teams to strategic financial goals, holding leaders accountable for high-quality performance and output.
  • Extensive experience in financial modeling, scenario planning, and risk management to drive evidence-based decision-making at the executive level.
  • Expertise in process optimization and operational scalability, including the implementation of systems to support financial and organizational growth.
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence board-level decisions and provide critical insights to the CEO and senior stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to lead large-scale M&A transactions, including deal structuring, due diligence, and integration to maximize value creation.
  • Advanced qualifications, such as an MBA or professional certifications (CPA, CFA, ACCA), demonstrating a commitment to technical and strategic excellence.
Why us?
Johnson Hana is Ireland’s leading alternative legal solutions provider. That means we disaggregate legal advisory and legal process work and focus on the latter. We want to change the way legal work is done and we have big plans to expand and grow massively, but we need your help.  
 
Our Core Values:  
 
  • Next-level people – we naturally go above and beyond. The next level up from our competitor's way of doing things is our natural habitat. Go there. 
  • Faster, with focus – Speed matters, but so does intent. We act fast, but it’s our focus on creating and accelerating change in the legal world that makes us faster.
  • Me, the person – we don’t do fakes. We celebrate realness. We ask that you bring your whole self to work, every day.
  • We, the people – this is also a community where we commit to each other. We welcome newcomers. Our community is our colleagues, our clients, and even those in our industry who want change. We are open.
  • Lean In - In an industry of egos, graft keeps us humble. So, get stuck in. Get your hands dirty. No task is below anyone. Grafting is how we respect the community. And champion change.
 
About us
Johnson Hana is Ireland’s leading alternative legal solutions provider. Why not have a look for yourself, check out this video explaining who we are and what we do!


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