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Ireland

Cork

Cork

Responsibilities:• A key member of the Order Management team responsible to audit all sales orders across the EMEA region, and booking of same orders in the Oracle-based orders module.• One of two team members responsible for resolving tax issues encountered by team when booking orders in Oracle module.• Following the divestiture of part of the company, I was given the key responsibility of absorbing part of my old role in Project Accounting into the Order Management team. This included training of team members on the process and finding ways to improve the process for efficiency purposes.• Successfully completed the 2016 submission of the IDA grant, as outlined below.Key achievements:• Secured this permanent role having successfully completed two 6-month contracts on my previous role.• Having had some exposure to Order Management through my previous role did allow me to learn the role in a shorter time frame than expected.• I have confidence in my ability to learn new processes, hence my willingness to volunteer for the tax issue role within the team. • Have successfully mentored three new hires to the team, which includes delivering a full training program and being available for problem solving/general questions.• Awarded internal global award for embracing change.

Cork, Ireland

Responsibilities:• Member of a three-person team fully responsible for managing all Project Accounting (PA) activities, including:o Audit all details in the complex Professional Services orders and set up correctly in Oracle PA within a 2 day SLA.o Ensure all enquiries are fully resolved within 2 day SLA, which include special invoicing requests.o Generate weekly revenue and invoice run, from the Oracle orders.o Weekly reconciliation of GL accounts to ensure revenue is recognised correctly and invoices issued in a timely manner.• Sole management of substantial IDA training grant. As part of a catch-up exercise by the company the 2014 and 2015 applications were completed as per new schedule. The submission was approved without change by internal and IDA audit. Because of the above success, am continuing with the 2016 application. Key achievements:• I have a high level of confidence and ability to get on with the work, and this was clearly highlighted in my 6-month review which demonstrated my capacity to rectify customer issues with little or no input from management.• My previous experience of using Oracle systems at ESB and Avery Dennison did allow me to learn the role in a shorter timeframe than expected, which was also confirmed in my 6-month review.• The IDA yearly grant submission was behind schedule on my arrival in September 2015. I completed the 2014 and 2015 submissions quickly with the result that Quest have received payment, and as mentioned above, am continuing with the 2016 grant.

Cork

Responsibilities: • Employed to assist on company move from Sage Commercial to Sage Professional, due to my experience on Sage Line 50.• Once the group's fifteen companies were set up on Sage Professional, I have been given complete management of seven companies, which includes the management and input of accounts information to trial balance stage including weekly bank account, creditor and debtor reconciliations.• Integrated a new payment process at the request of NAMA, which includes detailing all outstanding invoices due for payment, and then requesting a drawdown of funds.Key achievements:• My previous Sage experience from GlobeTech has made me very valuable to management in dealing with issues and queries on the new Sage platform.• Hired on an initial 8 week contract and after proving my worth to the company, I have been extended until the end of the year.• The experience of working for a NAMA-owned company has improved my attention to detail and accuracy skills.

Little Island, Cork

Responsibilities: • Member of a three person team fully responsible for the very large volume manual payment process, which includes VAT and tax payments up to the value of 500 million euro, handled in multiple currencies.• In addition to this, the team was solely responsible for answering all related queries within the company's 24 hour SLA.Key achievements:• I quickly gained experience and competence using the JP Morgan manual payment system.• I also quickly learned how to deal with the various queries, which ranged from whether invoices were included in payments, to supplying updated approval matrices.• Due to the approval process of Lilly's manual payment process, I gained a lot of face time with different levels of management, developing key relationships.

Cork

Responsibilities:• Sole responsibility for investigating all rejected payments on all AP's bank accounts • Lead administrator for Avery's Citibank, JP Morgan and Royal Bank of Scotland banking systems. Complete management of the access of all employees in the SSC, and first point of contact for the banks.• 5S auditor for the Accounts Payable Department (5S is a Japanese organisational methodology).Key achievements:• As with my previous role, I quickly gained the skills and knowledge on the job.

Ireland

Responsibilities:• Complete management of manual payment process, which includes VAT and tax payments up to the value of 10 million euro, handled in multiple currencies.• Full control of payfiles for all seven business units on Oracle-based processed system, also handled in multiple currencies.• Sole responsibility for completing bank reconciliations for Avery's JP Morgan banks, following the completion of the payfiles.• Shortly prior to leaving Avery, I was a key member of a team responsible for testing a new payfile system (Oracle-based) that was implemented a week before my departure.• 5S auditor for the Accounts Payables Department (5S is a Japanese organisational methodology).Key achievements:• My level of responsibility within the banking team increased significantly in a short period of time.• Developed key relationships with finance managers and other personnel in Avery's other European sites, including the UK, France, Germany, Czech Republic and Romania.• As I dealt with many departments across the company, I developed an excellent teamwork attitude with my colleagues in order to ensure that all manual payment requests were processed within Avery's SLA.• I have gained knowledge and experience with Avery's Oracle-based payfile system, PeopleSoft and CitiDirect (Citibank system used to process manual payments).

Responsibilities:• My primary role was preparation of accounts information to trial balance stage to review at the end of each month including daily bank account, creditor and debtor reconciliations.• Complete management of all utility accounts for a large number of company apartments and personally dealing with each.• Complete ownership for internal office expenditure, including all travel and accommodation.Key achievements:• Managing the very rapid growth of one key account, whilst controlling costs and ensuring the financial margins are maintained.• Meeting deadlines every month for the financial review.• Forced change in travel culture from “booking the day before” to proper planning resulting in savings in excess of 25%.

Responsibilities:• Managed and recorded all incoming e-mails and phone calls from clients reporting problems with their software problems.• Resolving any Level 1 reports, and escalating to a senior engineer when required.• Complete management of all movements of handheld devices between customer, the company and the external hardware engineer.• Worked directly with the company's clients on all issues detailed above.7• Liaised directly with the finance department to monitor and control support costs.• In addition, I also supported the Finance manager with end of month accounts.Key achievements:• Coming into the role with zero knowledge of the complex IT solution that GlobeTech sells, I learned how to resolve a range of IT problems with handheld devices used by the company's customers.• I was at the front of the company's move to formally document all issues and problems with the implementation of the SupportWorks program.

Responsibilities:• Managed the testing of new software on handheld devices for the company's biggest client.• Created an in-depth and comprehensive test case document to document the process for future testing.• The test case document was also shared with GlobeTech clients prior to roll-out of new major software releases.

Masters Of Business Studies, Accounting, 2.1

Bachelor Of Business Studies, Economics & Finance

Activities and Societies: Athletics Club - Secretary/Sprints Officer 2007/8

Leaving Certificate, Various, 450 Points