Tom Kiely Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Developed strong relationships with key project stakeholders and business customers.
• Personally discovered and saved the university over £250k of license fees that was being written off as a ‘sunk cost’.
• Responsible for managing general ledger activity and budgets of over 4 large university portfolios with an annual revenue of over £50m.
• Preparation of budgets and financial forecasting on an annual and quarterly basis to help the senior management teams.
• Partnering in business planning meetings and issues management to understand the work, create effective reporting, comparing budget to actuals, and complete analysis required by the unit heads to accurately understand.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• UBC is embarking on a multi-year journey to transform its academic and administrative support processes and system environments for the entire UBC community. This initiative is called the "Integrated Renewal Program".
• Developed strong relationships with key project stakeholders and business customers.
• Solving any problems that the stakeholders/business may have with creative solutions and an on-hand approach. By engaging clients during periodic progress reviews and check-ins and gauged progress on project goals.
• Project managed, coordinated and delivered over 400 tickets covering risks & issues, project deliverables, KPI’s, milestone management and project budgets.
• Utilizing strong client empathy and customer focus to understand their needs and provide support for a successful project.
• Regularly conducted strategic presentations to C-Level executive stakeholders, established cadences and engaged in change management with key stakeholders to monitor and meet mutually agreed upon over Workday.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Circle K, owned by Canadian Group, Couche Tard, in Quebec, is the leading gas retailer in Ireland.
• Tasked with the job of investigating and reconciling of all excise duty accounts across multiple statutory entities.
• Personally discovered and reconciled over £260k of misreported excise duty of imported fuels due to JDE Oracle ERP software errors.
• Saved the company 35% of expected write off cost.
• Delivered the project ahead of schedule with a 14% saving of project budget.
• Created new control processes, workflows and efficiencies to ensure misreporting of number would not be repeated

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• FFS is a high performance, small group and private client training facility situated in Dublin City Centre.
• Creation and management of financial models and budgets with scenario planning to accompany the 5-year business strategic plan.
• Lead the vendor selection of XERO ERP including requirements gathering, pricing, compatibility, user experience, implementation and testing.
• Business partnering with the Managing Director and Head of Operations to support budget and forecasting analysis.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Progressed within the International Accounting firm, Grant Thornton, from Junior Accountant to Senior Accountant. Worked in the Corporate Finance, Tax and Audit departments.
• The lead contact and adviser for 100+ personal tax clients and 50+ corporations in my portfolio.
• 100% success of calculation and timely submission of tax returns for my clients using Workday Finance ERP.
• Built strong relationships with my clients and identified new service opportunities for GT based on client feedback.
• Attended trade and industry fairs to source new business opportunities.
• Creation and management of CAPEX financial models to support client credit applications from financial institutions.

Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

• In my role as a Sales Consultant with Carphone Warehouse I had the opportunity to start my career in sales and customer support.
• Consistently exceeded monthly sales targets for contracts, handsets and accessories.
• Dealt with customer queries regarding upgrades, insurance and latest handsets on the market.

Fellow Of The Association Of Chartered Certified Accountants (Acca) Qualification, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Mathematics, Second Class Honours, Grade 1. (2.1)

Honours, Irish Leaving Certificate

Clongowes Wood is a 7 day boys boarding school situated in Clane, Co. Kildare about 30km from Dublin City Centre. It caters for boys who.