Newly Qualified Accountant (Assistant Manager)

Newly Qualified Accountant (Assistant Manager)

Application Deadline: 2 August 2026

Department: Entrepreneurial Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Dublin

Description

BDO Ireland's Entrepreneurial Services division supports start-up and scale-up clients across a broad range of industries with tailored accounting, compliance and advisory support. The team works with ambitious founder-led businesses as they build strong financial foundations, improve reporting, prepare for fundraising and scale their operations.

This role is suited to a newly qualified accountant who is interested in more than the day-to-day running of finance. The successful candidate will be curious about how early-stage and growing companies operate, how they make commercial decisions, and how strong financial information supports strategy, fundraising and long-term growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of accounting services to start-up and scale-up clients, including bookkeeping oversight, month-end close, reconciliations and management reporting.
• Prepare timely and accurate financial information to help clients understand performance, cashflow, runway and key financial drivers.
• Assist with statutory compliance work, including VAT, payroll-related finance inputs, annual financial statements and corporation tax coordination where relevant.
• Support the preparation of board packs, investor reporting, KPI dashboards and other decision-ready outputs for founders and management teams.
• Work with clients to understand their business model, revenue streams, cost base, funding position and operational priorities.
• Research and assess finance tools and technologies that can streamline, automate and improve repetitive processes, including invoice processing, reconciliations, expense management, approval workflows, reporting and month-end close activities.
• Contribute to finance process improvement projects by identifying manual or duplicative tasks, documenting current workflows, and helping implement practical technology-enabled solutions.
• Liaise with wider BDO teams, including tax, company secretarial, transaction services and advisory specialists, to ensure clients receive joined-up support.
• Assist with onboarding new clients, gathering financial information, understanding systems and identifying immediate priorities or risks.
• Support senior team members on forecasting, budgeting, cashflow planning and fundraising readiness work.
• Build strong working relationships with founders, finance leads and client teams through clear communication and practical support.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Recently qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a strong technical accounting foundation
• Experience in practice, industry, outsourced finance, audit or advisory, ideally with exposure to SMEs, start-ups or high-growth businesses
• Strong interest in understanding how businesses operate commercially, not just how financial information is prepared
• Comfortable working across multiple clients, deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Strong Excel and financial systems skills, with an interest in finance technology, automation and data-driven reporting
• Clear communicator, with the ability to translate financial information into practical, client-friendly insights
• Curious, proactive and willing to ask questions to understand the wider business context behind the numbers
• High attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership over the quality and accuracy of deliverables
• Commercial mindset, with an interest in the start-up and scale-up ecosystem, including founder journeys, funding stages and the challenges of growing a business
• Awareness of the financial dynamics of growing businesses, including areas such as cashflow, runway, cost management, revenue models and performance metrics
• Interest in emerging tools and technologies that can reduce manual work, improve accuracy and strengthen finance processes
• Awareness of the broader entrepreneurial ecosystem in Ireland (e.g. Enterprise Ireland, accelerators, venture capital and advisory networks), or a willingness to develop this understanding over time

Benefits

Income

• Competitive salary
• Travel Green Allowance Voucher
• Employee referral scheme - "refer a friend".
• Pension scheme

Health

• Mini Health Assessments
• Digi Doc
• Group health schemes
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• CSR, Sports and Social and Wellness Committees
• On site gym

Career

• Career Progression
• BDO Learning & Development programme
• Coverage of professional subscription

Leave

• Together Anywhere Leave
• Annual Leave Purchase Scheme
• Adoptive Leave Increase

Location

• Free breakfast every day
• State of the art office
• Central location
• On site café
• On site complementary barista