Philip Buckley ACA

• Oversee day-to-day practice and portfolio management, including monitoring client billing, time charges and cash collection to ensure commercial efficiency and profitability.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of ten audit professionals from diverse backgrounds, providing mentorship, performance feedback and supporting progression while promoting knowledge sharing and professional development within the team.
• Manage multiple audit engagements concurrently across various sectors, ensuring adherence to auditing standards, firm methodology and quality control procedures.
• Act as the primary client relationship manager, ensuring exceptional client service delivery throughout the audit life cycle.
• Review of audit workpapers and financial statements to ensure compliance with Irish and UK GAAP (FRS 102), IFRS and FRS101 as well as legal and regulatory disclosure requirements.
• Develop and implement audit strategies, including scoping, risk assessment and resourcing, tailoring to each client's operational and financial complexities.
• Liaise directly with audit partners and senior leadership to report on engagement progress and emerging issues, whilst preparing and presenting audit finding reports and communicating insights and recommendations to clients' management and Boards of Directors.
• Demonstrate ability to manage multiple ongoing projects effectively, meet deadlines and adapt to evolving client expectations in a fast paced, growth-oriented environment.

• Advised the client on various accounting issues encountered ensuring compliance with FRS 102.
• Produced and reviewed financial statements for 24 companies ensuring compliance with the relevant disclosure requirements of FRS 102 and the Companies Act 2014.

Irish Hospitality Group (SME) | Turnover > €10M

• Prepared group consolidation workings and consolidated Financial Statements under FRS 102.
• Reviewed the accounting for the disposal of the trade and identified misstatements ensuring accurate and complete accounting in line with FRS 102 for a significant and exceptional transaction.

Irish Construction Group (SME) | Turnover > €10M

• Evaluated goodwill impairment model and assessed cash flows.
• Performed detailed work on the going concern assumption including assessment of forecasted revenues and cash including sensitivity analysis.