Being familiar with your organisation through professional contacts, I share your Company's ethos and ambitions and am confident that I can make a significant contribution towards your future success.

• Bespoke Accounting Systems Design
• Financial/Cost Modelling
• Corporate Tax and VAT Planning
• P & L Accounting
• Financial and business auditing
• Risk Management

Bachelors Degree in Accounting and Human Resource Management (2.1 Honours Degree) -- 1995

For my other qualifications please see Appendix 1, attached.

My responsibilities include:

• Management of the Project Office on a day to day basis, including prioritising work and ensuring all deadlines are met.
• Promoting the Project Team as a proactive section both within the Finance Department and throughout the University, ensuring that there is an awareness of the Projects Team's role and contribution.
• The development and management of the financial accounting system, ensuring that operational problems are monitored and resolved in a timely manner.
• Ensuring that appropriate prioritisation is given to new information technology initiatives and overseeing the development and implementation of such initiatives.
• The development of Costing and Pricing techniques for use within the University and provision of costing and pricing advice to schools and cost centres.
• Ensuring that the University has adequate insurance policies in place to cover posing risks and activity as well as overseeing the day to day handling of insurance claim issues.
• Providing advice to Directorate and other University staff on Tax and VAT planning issues.
• Preparation of the financial model on an annual basis to facilitate the allocation of budgets to Academic Schools and Cost Centres.

Assistant Manager -- February 2001 to Oct 2001
CCC Associates

My responsibilities included:

• Management of external audit assignments, ensuring work was prioritised so deadlines could be achieved.
• Departmental planning, budgeting and billing.
• Motivating staff and encouraging teamwork on audit assignments and liasing regularly with staff, managers and Partners to ensure audit objectives on each assignment were fulfilled.
• Chairing audit closeout meetings attended by Finance Directors and Financial Controllers to discuss issues identified during audits.

Internal Auditor -- February 2000 to February 2001
AAA Bank

My responsiblities included:

• Management of internal audit assignments, ensuring work was prioritised so deadlines could be achieved.
• Identifying key risks in business areas under review and assessing the effectiveness of the controls in place to mitigate those risks.
• Preparation of final audit reports detailing recommendations to minimise the key risks identified and discussing findings with the business areas.

For full employment history please see Appendix 2, attached.

• Facilitating the implementation of the Distinction Finance System in the University which has led to more accurate reporting and cost reductions.
• Developing improved Costing and Pricing techniques leading to average cost savings of 10% across University Departments.
• A Certificate from Dublin City University in Personal Computing For Accountants in August 1998.
• Being awarded a Gaeltacht Scholarship by Gael Linn in June 1991, for my outstanding academic results.