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Aviation Advisory
Our dedicated Aviation Advisory team bring best-in-class expertise across modelling, lease management, financial accounting and transaction execution as well as technical services completed by certified engineers.
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Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds, lower partner-to-staff ratio than most and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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Deal Advisory
Our experienced Deal Advisory team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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Forensic Accounting
Our Forensic and Investigation Services team have targeted solutions to solve difficult challenges - making the difference between finding the truth or being left in the dark.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory
Our FAAS team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.
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Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.
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Risk Advisory
Our Risk Advisory team delivers innovative solutions and strategic insights for the Financial Services sector, addressing disruptive forces, regulatory changes, and emerging trends to enhance risk management and foster competitive advantage.
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Sustainability Advisory
Our Sustainability Advisory team works with clients to accelerate their sustainability journey through innovative and pragmatic solutions.
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Internal Audit Maintaining Compliance with New EU Pension Directive IORP IIOn 28 April 2021, the Irish Government transposed IORP II (Institution for Occupational Retirement Provision), an EU directive on the activities and supervision of pension schemes, into law.
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Risk, Compliance and Professional Standards FRED 82 – Periodic Updates to FRS 100 – 105The concept of a new suite of standards for the UK and Ireland, aligning with international financial reporting standards, was first conceived in 2002
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Audit and Assurance Auditor transition: how to achieve a smooth changeoverAppointing new auditors may seem like a daunting task that will be disruptive to your business and a drain on the finance function. Nevertheless, there are a multitude of reasons to consider a change, including simply seeking a ‘fresh look’ at the business.
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Corporate Tax
Our Corporate Tax team is made up of more than 40 highly experienced senior partners and directors who work directly with a wide range of domestic and international clients; covering Corporation Tax, Company Secretarial, Employer Solutions, Global Mobility and Tax Incentives.
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Financial Services Tax
The Grant Thornton team is made up of experts who are fully up to date in terms of changing and evolving tax legislation. This is combined with industry expertise and an in-depth knowledge of the evolving financial services regulatory landscape.
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Indirect Tax Advisory & Compliance
Grant Thornton’s team of indirect tax specialists helps a range of clients across a variety of sectors including pharmaceuticals, financial services, construction and property and food to navigate these complexities.
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International Tax
We develop close relationships with clients in order to gain a deep understanding of their businesses to ensure they make the right operational decisions. The wrong decision on how a company sells into a new market or establishes a new subsidiary can have major tax implications.
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Private Client
Grant Thornton’s Private Client Services team can advise you on all areas of financial, pension, investment, succession and inheritance planning. We understand that each individual’s circumstances are different to the next and we tailor our services to suit your specific needs.
Experience
Gavin joined Grant Thornton in 2014 and was appointed Partner in the FAAS business unit in January 2022. He is now a Partner is our Global Statutory Audit team.
Gavin has managed international projects across a number of accounting disciplines including:
- statutory accounts preparation;
- internal audit;
- tax compliance; and
- statutory audit.
Management of these projects entailed leading international teams to ensure all targets were met with regard to quality and timeliness of deliverables.
Sector experience
Gavin spent 2 years based in the US on a full time basis operating from the Greater Bay Area on the West Coast. While operating in the US, Gavin worked as relationship Director for a number of multinational clients. He has significant audit experience having completed statutory audits on small to large entities, and groups, across a variety of industry sectors including manufacturing, telecommunications, childcare, construction, not for profit organisations, insurance, internet, aviation and real estate. Gavin leads global statutory audit engagements for multinational clients operating with central finance functions. In these engagements, Gavin designs tailored audit plans to deliver efficiency through centralised procedures complimented with the required support from the Grant Thornton International network.
Gavin is focused on technical financial reporting matters and is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland’s Financial Reporting Technical Committee. He has worked on a number of non-audit engagements for multinational clients. Some of which are summarised below:
- Gavin completed a project to prepare special purpose financial statements for a multinational financial services group. These financial statements were used to support a restructuring of that group. He reported directly to the Vice President of Group Financial Reporting and dealt with all queries raised by external auditors. A significant number of financial statements were required in a short period of time to meet required deadlines.
- Gavin also assisted with an internal audit of reconciliation controls applied by a listed company at their shared services centre in Dublin. This involved reporting findings and recommendations directly to senior management.
- Gavin led a team to deliver year end consolidated tax and deferred tax numbers for a multinational financial service group consisting of over 300 entities.
In addition to his practice experience, Gavin has significant exposure to industry. For an eighteen month period he acted as financial controller for a large manufacturing company, reporting directly to the Board of Directors with responsibility for preparation of management accounts, year end statutory financial statements and the implementation of improved monitoring and control procedures in the finance function.
Gavin’s skills include:
- coordination of international compliance assignments;
- statutory audit;
- preparation of statutory accounts; and
- project management.
- BComm and Masters in Accounting and Finance
- Member of Chartered Accountants Ireland
- Green belt in Lean Six Sigma