Responsible for group financial reporting cycle and close, consolidation of group accounts, the annual audit, cash flow and compliance with regulatory requirements.The CompanyGloboforce was founded in 1999 and is the world's leading provider of strategic employee recognition solutions, helping HR and company leaders recognize & engage employees, transforming how a company's culture can be strategically managed globally and is the only employee recognition & reward provider that offers culturally relevant employee awards across the globe through an innovative, multilingual, multi-currency platform.

Responsible for Ireland management and statutory monthly reporting, providing commercial and analytical support to the Irish business, for forecasting & budgeting and reporting divisional performance.

>Manage a team of 6 people of varying levels and experience. I was responsible for coaching and mentoring them, setting their objectives and assessing their performance. I was also involved in succession planning for the team.>Responsible for ensuring that the monthly consolidated UK and Ireland management accounts were compliant with US GAAP accounting standards. This includes revenue recognition for both outsourcing and consulting contracts, contract loss accounting, complex contract set up, working capital review and deferred transition costs.>Responsible for liaising with client financial managers to ensure that all accruals and prepayments are accurately recorded.>Responsible for meeting challenging deadlines especially around quarter and year ends. To effectively meet these deadlines, I need to manage the team to ensure any potential issues are flagged to me as soon as possible.>Responsible for reviewing and approving all manual journals greater than $25k.>Review and approve post close adjustments to the accounts (e.g. if an accrual is booked incorrectly or revenue is misstated).>Preparation and review of financial statement under UK and Irish GAAP.>Responsible for the audit of Accenture Global Services limited in 2010 & 2011.>Liaise with auditors on areas of responsibility.>Overall analysis of monthly/quarterly/yearly UK P&L determining business reasons for movements including preparing an executive summary for senior management.>Attend regular meeting with my manager to discuss any issues or upcoming challenges and deadlines etc.Achievements>Improved controls over both UKI AP and Receivables balance sheets.>Represented Accenture Global Services Limited ABS on the Irish Employee Forum.>Delivered the financial reporting Pack for Accenture Global Services Limited financials to the Country Controller to present to the Board of Directors>Presented IFRS training – Business Combination to Accenture Dublin.

>Managed the ESC UK Intercompany Team and build an ESC UK team relationship with several teams across the Accenture world, together with the individual Client Financial Managers to consistently improve the quality of our reported information>Ensured compliance with UK and US GAAP for the purposes of our Global and Statutory reporting>Managed the statutory audits of two UK entities and one Irish entity >Consolidated and improved the output of the team>Delivered two Accenture Business Class training sessions on Project Management skills and Leadership Fundamentals to TCD, HFH (HSE) & a local Church Community Group.>Communicate team functions to align expectations and deliverables with the business need.>Simplified and documented ongoing process.>Monthly intercompany deliverables were brought in line with the standard output of the UK Team>Participated in a UK Statutory Recapitalisation project with transactions across 3 countries and 14 UK entities

>Supervise the ESC Netherlands Country Finance team in a multilingual service centre environment.>Ensure compliance with US and Local-GAAP accounting polices>Participate in continuous quality improvement project work>Provide analysis reporting to executives on current/potential issues, statistics, metrics and projects>Develop an in-depth knowledge of firm financial and supporting tools>Maximise team/cross-team performance through target management and motivation>Supervise and participate in the Country financial accounting processes including : -Preparation of Statutory accounts with local controllership, liaising with the Auditors, Monthly end close process, P&L analysis, liaison with the cross finance community in addition to Balance sheet reconciliations, Inter-company Accounting, Fixed Assets Accounting, Revenue analysis and investigation

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOx) was implemented in the US in 2002 as a response to the financial scandals of Enron & Worldcom. The Act seeks to improve financial reporting standards by ensuring adequate systems of internal controls are documented and audited on an annual basis.>Managed the Internal Controls for the European Service Centre, Ireland Controllership & Ireland Procurement.>Lead up weekly meetings with the ESC Senior Management team during the final Sox roll out and the initial testing phase of the Sox Internal Controls function.>Supported the monthly operation of controls across 19 countries for the following areas: General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Cash Application, Time and Expenses, Cross Border Finance, Ireland Controllership, Ireland Procurement & ESC Fixed Asset IT controls.>Organise and lead formal classroom training on select topics of importance>Document processes for both internal and external audit.>Respond as needed to any special projects:--Research Irish double taxation treaties for the tax treatment of Foreign WHT in connection with Irish Corporation Tax Liability. --Manage the Statutory Audit Fee for non Americas/EU countries to aid ESC management meet the US Audit Committees objective of reducing the overall global KPMG audit fee.--Due diligence work on Avanade that was being transitioned into the ESC.

Barr Pomeroy is a firm specialising in taxation, auditing, and corporate restructuring services, delivering tax and financial advice to small and medium sized enterprises across a broad spectrum of sectors and high net worth individualsResponsibilities included>Staff management, training and supervision.>Advise clients on ad hoc projects (Accounting packages, Company Valuations and share transfer price).>Preparation of financial statements, abridged financial statements, consolidated financial statements and cash flows statements Planning and execution of audits for small and medium size companies.>Company secretarial and taxation compliance.>Personal taxation compliance.>Ad hoc taxation assignments (Non-Resident Bogus A/c’s, Ansbacher A/c’s).