Economist in the CAP Strategic Plan Division. Ireland’s new CAP Strategy is devised under a new ‘Green Architecture’ framework, helping Ireland achieve its biodiversity goals and combat climate change.

• Senior consultant in BOI Systems & Change team implementing IT transformation project for regulatory reporting to the Central Bank. • Technical liaison between Reporting and IT, gathering business requirements and converting into technical requests. • Testing of data output from SAP calculation engine and ensuring that automation aligns with reporting framework issued by European Central Bank.• Cross functional consulting between IT, Finance and Risk.

Took a year sabbatical to pursue my passion of traveling, spending 9 months in South America and 3 months in South East Asia.

• Team lead of FD consultants which oversaw the implementation and testing of Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (WKFS) software for the automation of regulatory returns submitted to the Central Bank of England.• Led FD team meetings and had responsibility for delegation and prioritization of tasks.• Responsible for providing the portfolio analysis of financial products and derivatives to the software vendor to provide the client with a tailored implementation.• Presided over training and development classes for both FD colleagues and client employees. • Held meetings with Finance, Risk and Credit departments outlaying reporting needs and mapping of data flows.

• Oversaw the successful go live of WKFS software for client. Worked with client throughout solution cycle, from development to go live. • Project manager responsible for engaging relevant stakeholders and pushing for solutions, meeting tight client deadlines. • Assigned junior FD consultant and was responsible for training and workload.• Tested data flows and instructed development team on rectifying defects and data bugs, as well as incomplete or missing data after ETL load from source systems.• Configuration changes were made in close liaison with the vendor through Salesforce CRM service support. • Coordinated with other WF IT transformation projects to plan for potential project risks.

• Worked with client reporting team for the successful launch of WKFS software, automating regulatory returns to the central bank.• Met tight project deadlines and delivered case results to senior management. • Worked closely with the development team to facilitate IT change requests and data mapping from source systems SAP and SUMMIT.• Raised software defects with the vendor through Salesforce service delivery website. • Queried data warehouses using SQL to validate test results.• Undertook regression testing of the software after system updates and patches for defects.

•Junior Support analyst for Foreign Exchange trading. •Coordinated with support teams in European, American and APAC regions to provide global support cover for FX trading.•Daily troubleshooting and problem solving of FX trade issues, running SQL queries on Oracle SQL Developer and UNIX commands on application servers, both in Production and UAT environments.•Developed a deep understanding of FX applications, internal systems and processes.•Built up knowledge of business flows through front, middle and back office operations.•Extensive use of third party applications such as Wallstreet Systems, TwoFour, and SmartStream•Supported in-house developed applications.

•Participated in receivership/liquidation sites meeting around Ireland to meet with and facilitate clients and creditors on the receivership/liquidation process..•Carried out property reviews, insurance inspections and oversaw the securing of the properties.•Processed VAT, P30’s and P35's daily through Revenue Online Service. •In charge of the organisation and payment of the Local Property Tax, which was applicable to various receiverships for both the GT Limerick and Dublin offices. •Attended creditors meetings for liquidations. •Worked closely with the National Asset Management Agency on high profile cases. Arranged for an independent security firm to carry out fortnightly inspections on NAMA properties.

•Trained on cash registers for general groceries, off licence and Petrol Kiosk. •Signed off for frozen, chilled and ambient deliveries. •Trained in new staff.