John O'Keeffe Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

I was a founding member of the Wholesale Financing product team, a finance product to provide working capital finance to brands who sell in brick and mortar retailers.I was tasked with developing the underwriting process and strategy for the product, with the team growing from two employees to over 20 employees across sales, product, underwriting and more..

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Currently in the early stages of developing a technology platform to enable digital businesses to embed climate and social action into their customer journeys

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

I have spent over 4 years working as a financial & business analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions space analysing companies as part of due diligence processes. My role involves analysing the financial performance and operations of companies, building financial models which capture their past and predicted future financial performance and writing reports.

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Participated in UCC Ignite's early stage startup accelerator for 3 months full time

Cork, Ireland

I ran UCC’s Student Managed Fund, a fund with €10,000 under management which was sponsored by Goodbody Stockbrokers. Our fund invested in long- only equities. My role included:o Approving investment decisionso Leading our pitch at the annual intervarsitycompetition against other Irish universitieso Managing the day-to-day activities of the Fund

Dublin, Ireland

I completed a 3 month summer internship in PwC Ireland’s Deals team. This involved:o Completing rotations within the transaction services, corporate finance and business recovery services departments with the wider Deals team

London, United Kingdom

completed a 6 month placement in the acquisitions team of the private-equity backed Wyevale Garden Centres. During my internship my role involved:o Working on 9 deals worth a combined c.£45m, with 4 deals closing worth £31m in totalo Building financial models for valuations and creating pitchbooks used by the Company's finance committee to make acquisition.

Aca

First time pass of CAP 2 (2018) and FAE (2019) exams

Bachelor'S Of Science - Bsc, Finance, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Student Managed Fund, UCC Sámh Society

Irish Leaving Certificate