Finance Assistant Programme & Head Office in Dublin

About the Role

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) is leading on the clinical and operational transformation of acute paediatric healthcare and consists of hospitals at Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght as well as an Urgent Care Centre at Connolly hospital in Blanchardstown.

The purpose of this post is to manage CHI Programme various Integration and ICT Projects being undertaken in support of the opening of the New Children’s Hospital (NCH).

This role will be integral in providing financial support on same. This is varied and interesting role and will be the key in tracking and recording Programme & Head Office spend in a timely manner and ensuring all Programme costs are recorded by Project ID’s.

This role will support across CHI sites as we move towards Integration and will be an integral support to Project Management Office (PMO) and Programme Finance Lead who oversee the total spend across the Programme and Head Office. This role will be the key support on Programme and HQ budgeting and forecasting and will assist on analysis of actuals v projections across the projects.

This role will be responsible for partnering with transactional accounting team – Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts receivable and payroll to ensure accurate and timely reporting.

This role will be key support to Materials Management – partnering with the PMO in managing review and release of purchase orders and queries on same for Programme and Head Office.

Requirements

• 3 + years experience in a relevant/similar role, ideally in healthcare or large organisational transformation project.
• Be a qualified member or studying towards qualification with a recognised accountancy body.
• Excellent Excel Skills – proficient in pivots, lookups and general data manipulation, etc.

Details

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Contract type: Special Purpose, Full time

Salary: €58,477–€71,442 per year

Closing date: 14 Sept 2026 4:00 PM

How to Apply

Applications for this post must be accompanied by a cover letter, setting out relevant experience that illustrates how the essential criteria listed above is met.

The closing date for submissions of CV’s and cover letter is 14 September 2026 by 5pm. Applications must be completed through the advertised post on CHI.jobs by clicking ‘Apply for Job’.

Applications will not be accepted through direct email or any other method.

For informal enquiries for this specialty/department, please contact Carl.Berkeley@childrenshealthireland.ie Programme and Head Office Finance Lead.

For other queries relating to this recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist – Taurai Machuwe at Taurai.machuwe@childrenshealthireland.ie