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Doha, Qatar

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Manage, lead and direct all teams that deal with finance, operations and site/facilities (three campuses with 400 staff and 3,000 students)

United Arab Emirates

Reporting directly to C-Suite of $6BN company. Responsible for driving execution success across the portfolio of projects, programs and initiatives. This includes organisational change and transformation, and system implementations (Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics).Implemented, monitored and reported on departmental KPIs across the organization.

United Arab Emirates

• GEMS is the largest operator of kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools in the world, with schools in UAE, Qatar, KSA, Egypt, Europe, Africa, India, Southeast Asia and North America. My role involved:
• Performing entity audits of global operations
• Presenting findings to senior leadership and developing actions plans
• Follow up with action owners to ensure implementation of recommendations

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

• The remit of my role was for 360 stores across Europe and North America. This included:
• Development of the annual internal audit work plan
• Conducting reviews from planning through to reporting
• Presenting reports to senior management
• Follow up and partnering with action owners to ensure implementation of recommendations
• The preparation of reporting packs for the Group/audit committee (parent company is listed on London Stock Exchange)

Ireland

Responsible for performing outsourced internal audit, risk and governance services for my portfolio of clients (public sector, education, healthcare, financial services).

Dublin - IFSC

Accounting

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting And Finance, 2.1

High School Diploma