Accountant and Systems Consultants

Key Responsibilities: • Coordinating the finance team to produce accurate daily, weekly, and monthly reports.• Monitoring Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable and managing treasury of the company.• Producing budgets including weekly cashflows.• Review & Approval of all non-stock purchase orders and ensuring company is getting best value.• Month-end close and updated forecasts to strict deadlines.• Management of Capital spend via an approval and internal order process.• Maintaining Balance Sheet integrity i.e. Fixed Assets, stocks, accruals, prepayments, etc.• Business Partnering – Working with others across all functions of the business to ensure department owners and stakeholders are supplied with accurate and timely information to operate the business correctly and efficiently.• Liaising with external auditors to ensure compliance with and timely publications of accounts.• Ensuring the company is tax compliant with VAT, PAYE, Customs Duty, UK Packaging Tax, and other environmental returns, etc.• Insurance renewals for the company property, motor fleets and public & employees’ liability.

Key Responsibilities:Management of the finance team.Work closely with the Finance Director and Senior Management team for the company.Actively participate in the development of Company.Annual Budget Process and Forecasts.Drive and Implement process improvements throughout the company.Be a key player in any system implementations - NetSuite ERP.To ensure accurate and timely reporting of the requisite financials.Ensure all local legal, tax and statutory reporting requirements are fulfilled including liaising with local and group auditors.Review and maintenance of cashflow including forecasting.Proactively manage all people focused policies and procedures, including but not limited to recruitment, performance management, absence or leave across the Finance department.

A key member of the Birdseye Ireland (Brand - Goodfella’s Pizza) Supply Unit Finance team. My role has direct responsibility for the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of financial information regarding the SU Ireland unit.Key Achievements: • Involved in the successful complete systems transfer to the Nomad Foods plc. group SAP platform.• Designed and implemented a new suite of financial and production modeling reports. Key Responsibilities: • Provision of accurate and timely daily, weekly and monthly reports and analysis.• Month end close and updated forecasts with hard deadlines.• Actual and forecasting of KPI’s – reporting, analysis, and optimization.• New product development costing and SAP master data product costings.• Tracking and management of Capital spend.• Maintaining Balance Sheet integrity.• Ensuring adherence to Nomad Foods plc accounting policies (IFRS). • Business Partnering.• Liaising with both statutory & internal auditors to ensure compliance incl. SOX.

Leading the finance team of the biggest independently owned Irish craft brewery and a Dublin based micro-brewery restaurant involving systems development and maintenance (SAP Business One & Sage) and reporting accurate financial results to strict deadlines to directors and stakeholders.Key Achievements: • Involved in a mid-year accounts system transfer from Sage to SAP business One.• Responsible for managing the external audit during the changeover year from Sage to SAP involving the merging the two systems and providing all assurances required by the auditors.• Maintaining & reconciling accounting ledgers and managing staff to ensure timely and accurate recording.• Reporting to Company Stakeholders on a monthly basis both by company and by Group.• Maintaining product costing and ensuring overhead absorption rates are up to date.Key Responsibilities: • Producing periodic, annual and statutory company and group consolidated financial statements and reporting these to stakeholders to time deadlines.• Producing budgets, cashflows , KPIs, Turnover and margin reports etc.• Managing the accounts team of 4 staff (1 qualified, 3 admin) to ensure all ledgers and reconciliations are kept up to date and accurate.• Organising & overseeing monthly and year end stock takes and ensuring the SAP system is updated with any variances.• Maintaining product BOMs and direct overhead absorption rates.• Dealing with insurance (property, plant, fleet & credit) to ensure adequately covered.• Payroll & approval of expense claims.• Other adhoc duties as required from day to day.

C&F Tooling Manufacturing Group• Producing periodic, annual and statutory group financial statements and liaising with group external auditors. • Producing management financial statements and periodic KPI reports.• Preforming due diligence on any proposed business acquisitions and making recommendations to the Board of Directors.• Preparing group financial forecasts & budgets for internal use and for finance applications.• Preforming on-site internal audit checks and implementing system improvements. • Defending R&D Tax Credit claims in Revenue Audits, Staff Training, etc.

• Planning, performance, review of accounts, taxation and audit work, consultation with management and preparation of the company statutory financial and abridged statements.• Closely liaising with banks for client financing applications including production of detailed financial forecasts and cash flows.• Revenue Audits: assisted in the investigation and resolution of taxation audits.• Assisted in the successful sale of a client business producing detailed sales document including all necessary historical information and future forecasts.• Due diligence, client & office staff training, PAYE/Payroll, VAT, client computer installation and other ad hoc assignments.

• Planning and completion of audit, non-audit, partnership, sole trader, planning, payroll, VAT, etc. assignments in line with ever-changing auditing, financial reporting & taxation legislation & standards.• Preparing numerous accountancy practices for an audit monitoring visit from their association involving cold review of completed files, recommendation of actions and implementation of audit procedural programmes and check lists to ensure quality and compliance of audit files in the future.

-Planning & completing a portfolio of audit & accountancy assignments to Irish/UK auditing standards.-Preparing statutory financial statements for companies, partnerships & sole-traders to strict deadlines reporting directly with the SME owners / directors.-Identifying and communicating findings in internal control weaknesses and non-compliance with regulations & accounting policies.-Preparation of corporation tax, income tax, capital gains tax & capital acquisitions tax computations and submission of same.-Coaching, supervision, coordinating and motivation staff for the completion of assignments.-Adhoc assignments including financial forecasting, budgets, finance applications, Revenue tax audits, etc.

-Audit Semi-Senior in a dedicated audit department. -Planning and completing audit assignments to UK auditing standards.-Involved in implementing auditing standards and dealing with the newly established monitoring regime – the Joint Monitory Unit.