Previous Jobs

At talentforce recruitment we are all about flexible & part time professional jobs. At any one time, we only have the roles that we are working on. Typically from advertising a role to a job offer, is typically in the region of 2-4 weeks. These are previous jobs we have worked on:

Administration Assistant
Practice Accountant
Solicitor
Sales Representative B2B Products
Part time Accountant
Medical Sales
Financial Accountant
Part time Financial Controller
Mortgage Consultant / Advisor
B2B Online Marketing
Executive Director (Charity)

Administration Assistant : 20 hours per week in Dublin 1

We are currently recruiting for a part-time Administration Assistant to join our Dublin based team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day support to team members including calendar management for internal and external meeting and managing international travel arrangements.
• Collating and distributing agendas and presentation slides for meetings and conference calls
• Accounts receivable duties including invoice preparation, issuing statements of account and cash collection
• General accounting administration
• Financial administration of new and existing training programmes

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes:

• 3-5 years of experience in a similar environment
• Ideally IATI qualified or equivalent work experience
• Excellent organisational skills, methodical, with strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Previous experience working remotely an advantage

Hours Per Week:

• 20
• Hours are flexible
• Office based initially but option to move to hybrid (part office, part remote)

Rate

• €18-€20 depending on experience
• Consultancy basis

Practice Accountant : 4 days / part time

Location : Dublin 12 or Newbridge

We are looking for a practice accountant for client facing roles in West Dublin

We are a young dynamic, fast growing firm based with three offices in the Dublin Area. This role is within a top class professional team and will provide you to progress professionally & work directly with a broad range of SME’s and high net worth Professional clients.

There is a clear path for progression and development with high quality mentoring & training. This position is very varied and challenging and the successful candidate will also be an important member of tour  team. We pride ourselves on open door culture, modern offices & long term client relationships. Training will be provided on our cloud based accounts production software, Relate.

If you are looking to return to practice after time in industry, then this could be for you! What counts is a desire to develop your technical skills and the ability to work seamlessly with our clients & team.

Job Description

Working closely with our long standing clients to play a support role in advisory and business planning

• Completing accounts, audit and tax assignments efficiently
• Prepare & Review regular management accounts
• Management and development of trainee accountants
• Prepare & review statutory returns
• Meeting, managing & development relationships with clients
• Ad-hoc project work or secondments to commerce/industry along with ad hoc consultancy work (business projections etc)

Key requirement

• A track record of client relationship management
• A desire to work in practice, in particular to work with SMEs in a client facing role
• Strong technical, interpersonal and a desire to progress
• Ability to work independently to prepare files to Partner review stage
• Display commitment, effort, motivation and initiative in all business dealings
• Ability to meet deadlines & have strong organisational skills
• Part or qualified accountant preferred but strong practice accounts experience also considered
• Working hours – 4 days with some flexibility

Solicitor – part time

A progressive and commercial general practice law firm area is seeking an experienced and dynamic General Practice Solicitor in its Rathfarnham/Dundrum office. This role will suit a solicitor seeking to work full time or seeking a 3 to 4 day week or looking for mornings only. It is therefore a flexible or full time role depending on the needs, ability and experience of the right candidate. Remuneration, career prospects highly attractive for the right candidate.

The Solicitor will be responsible for providing legal support to the Managing Partner and to work on their own caseload in the following areas:

• Conveyancing;
• Residential and some commercial conveyancing;
• Probate 
• Review terms and conditions and other contractual documents

Knowledge and experience:

• Qualified solicitor (currently enrolled with the Law Society of Ireland) with minimum 2 to 6 years’ relevant post qualification experience;
• Conveyancing experience is essential;
• Excellent PC skills (Word, Excel, Outlook).

Personal competencies:

• Drive, energy and an enthusiastic team player;
• Excellent interpersonal skills;
• Good organisational skills;
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and follow through on tasks;
• Flexible, can-do attitude

Sales Representative B2B Products : Full time with flexibility

Expanding Irish technology is seeking a Field Sales Representative for their B2B SAAS products focused on the Irish educational & childcare sector. This is a growing company, a terrific team & great company culture. This is a full time role but there is some flexibility around working hours for the right candidate; alternatively part time work arrangements are available. The role will have a mix of field work and home / office based.

This role is all about growing new business for the company’s recently developed SaaS platform to improve the operational efficiency of educational & childcare facilities. The technology allows business to introduce digital records, automate free collection, log daily attendance and improve operational efficiency.

You will be an early member of a highly performing team that we are putting in place to grow our sales. Key to this role is a result driven approach to actively seek out and engage customers, specifically the owner and operators of childcare facilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Present, promote and sell SaaS solution using solid arguments to prospective business customers
• Reach out to customer leads through cold calling
• Sourcing and developing customer referrals
• Researching accounts, generating interest and obtaining business requirements
• Participating in sales events
• Ensuring all sales enquiries are responded to either by phone, email or inperson
• Generating and qualifying new prospects from either inbound leads or customer requests generated from various marketing campaigns
• Managing and maintaining accurate leads, opportunities and account information within our CRM
• Achieve agreed upon sales targets and outcomes within schedule

Requirements

• Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in sales
• Excellent selling, communication and negotiation skills
• Prioritising, time management and organisational skills
• Good knowledge of CRM software
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
• Experience in education, or a childcare environment an advantage

Location – Head office is in Dun Laoghaire, however role will have a mix of field work and home / office based.

Salary : OTE €40-50k  FTE, so OTE €40-25k for 50% hours

Job Type: Full-time or part time

Part time Accountant – Wicklow town

Our client is an independent accountancy firm based in Wicklow Town. They offer a wide range of services to start-up businesses and established companies.

The firm works with both new businesses and established companies, offering a complete accounting and bookkeeping services, along with quality advice at all crucial business stages. They are also experienced in specialised audits, such as solicitor and auctioneers’ client account and pension scheme audits.

The practice requires a fully qualified book keeper / acccoutns assistant with practice experience to join their Wicklow town based team.

Hours : Full-time role with some limited flexibility.

Reporting to the principal accountant, the successful candidate will be

Duties and responsibilities

Process journals and post to accounting systems

Month end accounts/P&L/Balance Sheet

Monthly bank recs

Process VAT & RCT returns via ROS

Run payroll, qualification in IPASS an advantage

Administration tasks including responding to email  & client queries     

Qualifications

• Proficiency in general accounting and double-entry
• Proficiency in Excel and other Finance packages

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated ability to work independently and ability to manage own workload  effectively
• Excellent communication skills including written and verbal English skills to accurately record and communicate analyses results
• Detail oriented and conscientious                        
• Organisational and time management skills are essential

Medical Sales – part time

Our client specialises in the supply of equipment and consumables to GPs, nursing homes and healthcare facilitates. In operation over 20 years the company has a strong nationwide client base.

Due to ongoing business growth , they are now looking for a Sales Executive to join their team on a part time / flexible basis. They will primarily be office based in West Dublin, with about 20% time being spend visiting clients. On an occasional basis, the role involves visiting trade shows.

Work arrangements : the company is open a flexibility in working hours & location. Whilst the job is primarily based in head office, there is flexibility around term only working ( reduced summer hours) & start / finish times.

In addition, the company works on GP surgery fit-outs, equipment, integrated technology and provide equipment rental and support to GPs and health centres.

So if you are an experienced sales or experienced healthcare professional looking to change career path, then this is an exciting role with an expanding company. As a Sales Executive, you will be responsible for selling a wide range of equipment and consumables to GPs practices, healthcare facilities and nursing homes.

Managing key accounts, you will nurture good working relationships with clients, including nurses, GPs, manager and nursing home operators to ensure high standards of service & repeat custom

Candidate profile

– A record of achieving sales targets or operational experience in the nursing or healthcare sector / hospitals

-A full driving licence

-Great interpersonal and communication skills.

-An interest in technology & the benefits of new techniques and technology

-Previous experience in the healthcare / nursing / medical / surgical / life sciences sector an advantage

Salary – competitive package available

Job Type: Part-time

Financial Accountant –  in Dublin 4

Our client is seeking an experienced financial account for their head office based in Dublin 4. This is a full time role with flexibility around working times / start / finish times. This is a great opportunity to work with a small but high performing Finance team in a fast paced online business & a terrific company culture.

The company is open to a part time work arrangement over approximately 4 days subject to agreement, with flexibility around working hours.

This role is a key member of the Irish Finance team reporting in to the Head of Finance. The initial 12 month contract role is to provide cover as the business migrates to a new Finance System and also cover for Maternity leave. 

Core Responsibilities:

       Supporting the Head of Finance with all Month End Reporting including preparation of Monthly Management accounts and reports to tight deadlines

       Responsibility for Monthly Balance Sheet Reconciliations

       Assisting the Head of Finance in Budgeting and Quarterly Forecasts. and providing support in analysing and understanding variances to Budget and Forecasts 

       Assistance with Year End and Audit

       Preparation of Bi Monthly VAT Returns

       Responsible for preparation of monthly Cash Flow projections and analysis 

       Support with implementation of new ERP system and move to new Payroll Provider in 2018

       Providing support and coaching to junior team members

       Other Ad hoc tasks and projects

Essential Skills

       Qualified ACA/ACCA

       2+Years PQE in a Financial Accounting or Reporting role

       Strong interpersonal and communication skills

       Highly motivated and a self starter

       Strong attention to detail

       Strong Excel Skills

Part time Financial Controller

The Role:

This is a part-time credit control role that would most likely suit somebody looking to come back to employment on a 2 to 3 day basis with previous credit control experience.  This role will primarily be credit control focused and it will be necessary to develop a working relationship with customers to ensure timely payments are made.  

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist the credit controller on a day to day bases with collections of outstanding debtors
• Support setting up new customer account and perform full company history checks
• Resolution of queries to facilitate payments from customers
• Assist with month end statement run
• Liaise and communication with sales and other internal departments as required to maintain an accurate position on customer accounts
• Ensure that all prepared communications are accurately recorded/documented in a timely manner
• Working with other accounts employees as required

Key experience and skills: 

• Relevant experience and a proven track record in debt collection
• Excellent communication skills on all levels
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Deadline focused with the ability to prioritise tasks
• Sage experience a distinct advantage
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Excel

Mortgage Consultant / Advisor – part time flexible

An established small financial services / wealth manager brokerage who are seeking an experienced mortgage consultant to join their expanding team.

The company has offices in Blackrock & Walkinstown but the role could primarily be based at home and has quite flexible hours.

This may suits an individual who has formerly worked in the bank sector, is looking for a new challenge and increased work flexibility.

This is not a sales role!  The company has over 2000 existing customers,  partnerships with a number of accountancy professional bodies and employee mortgage schemes which has lead to a large number of in bound mortgage queries which need to be followed up. The role is focused on following up on these calls and guiding them through to mortgage completion.

So , the means a deep understanding of the mortgage market,  the application process and customer manner  is required .

So, what you will need:

• Strong mortgage skills & experience which would include mortgage discussion with customer through to application 
• Great customer service credentials & put the customer first
• Be positive
• Be focused with the ability to work independently
• A banking of finance qualification an advantage
• Ability to work to a high standard

B2B Online Marketing : Flexible working / Work from Home

A B2B distribution company is seeking an online marketer to improve their online presence.

• Write & edit content to generates increased B2B sales & traffic.
• Researched competitors & their approaches
• Devise & execute email marketing campaigns
• Communicated with customers by text, e-mail, and social media platforms.
• Devised creative ideas to drive traffic towards blogs and websites.
• Assist in updating websites or providing information for updates
• Uploading blogs as needed
• Utilizing SEO tools to ensure that websites are performing
• Managing all social media platforms and engaging with clients. ; 
• Using Hootsuite, WordPress  & other platforms as needed.
• Analysing Google Analytics.
• Ensuring that websites are performing well
• Coordinated and executed online B2B  social media campaigns.

Location : the company is based in Ballymount, however the is flexibility for the right candidate & the ability to carry out the work from home / remotely.

Hours Ca.  : 15-12 hours per week, subject to agreement

Executive Director (Charity / 3 days per week / interim)

This position has specific responsibility for providing leadership and direction for Care After Prison so as to achieve the organisation’s vision, mission and strategy.

 Summary of role

• Line management of the team
• Interacting & management with stakeholders
• Assisting with presentations and fundraising

Main purpose of role

The Executive Director has overall responsibility for Care After Prison and provide strategic leadership to the organisation’s management and board of directors. The Executive Director is responsible and accountable to the board of directors for the development of Care After Prison’s strategy and the ongoing delivery of high quality support services to those affected by imprisonment. The Executive Director works in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders, lead the senior management team within the values of Care After Prison and maintain a client led approach to all services provided.

Key experience

• Sector or NGO sector
• Responsibility for man management
• Experience in stakeholder engagement