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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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Corporate Finance and Deal Advisory
We offer a dedicated team of experienced individuals with a focus on successfully executing transactions for corporates and financial institutions. We offer an integrated approach, with our corporate finance specialists working seamlessly with tax and other specialists to ensure that every angle is covered.
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Economic Advisory
Our all-island Economics Advisory team combines expertise in economics and business with a wealth of experience across the public and private sectors.
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Forensic Accounting
We have a different way of doing business by delivering real insight through a combination of technical rigour, commercial experience and intuitive judgment. We take pride in delivering responsive and tailored solutions to all our clients, capitalising on the wealth of experience housed within our Belfast and wider Forensics team
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People and Change Consulting
The Grant Thornton People & Change Consulting practice works with clients on these issues as well as on all aspects of how they attract, retain, engage develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Restructuring
We work with a wide variety of clients and stakeholders such as high street banks, private equity funds, directors, government agencies and creditors to implement solutions which provide the best possible outcomes.
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Technology Consulting
Motivating and assisting our clients to pursue, maintain and secure the benefits of digital solutions is at the core of our Digital Transformation teams' agenda and goals. We work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Corporate and International Tax
Northern Ireland businesses face further challenges as they operate in the only part of the UK that has a land border with a country offering a lower tax rate.
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Employer Solutions
Our team specialises in remuneration and incentive planning and works closely with employers, shareholders and employees to ensure that business strategies are aligned and goals achieved in the most tax efficient, cost-effective manner.
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Entrepreneur and Private Client Taxes
Our team of experienced advisors are on hand to guide you through any decision or transaction ranging from the establishment of new business ventures, to realising value on exit, to succession planning and providing for loved ones.
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Global Mobility Services
Grant Thornton Ireland offer a different approach to managing global mobility. We have brought together specialists from our tax, global payroll, people and change and financial accounting teams across Ireland and Northern Ireland, while drawing on the knowledge and insights of our global network of over 143 offices of mobility professionals to provide you with a holistic approach to managing global mobility.
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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced service provides valued service to over 150 separate PAYE schemes. These ranging from 1 to 1000 employees, working for micro, SME and global employers. The service is supported by the integrated network of tax and global mobility teams and the wider Grant Thornton network delivering a seamless service. Experienced staff deliver a personal service built around your business needs.
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Tax Disputes and Investigations
Our Tax Disputes and Investigation team is made up of tax experts and former HMRC investigators who have years of experience in dealing with a variety of tax investigations. Our expertise and insight can guide you through all interactions, keeping your cost at a minimum while allowing you to continue with the day to day running of your business.
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VAT and Indirect Taxes
At Grant Thornton (NI) LLP, our team helps Northern Ireland businesses manage their UK and global indirect tax risks which, as transactional taxes, can quickly become big liabilities.
What was your first job?
During the summer months while home from university, I worked in a local accountancy practice, WS Watson & Co in Omagh. This provided me with a great head start before I joined Grant Thornton as a trainee in 2000.
What qualifications do you have?
I have a degree in Accounting and Finance from Manchester Metropolitan University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2003.
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to working in a fantastic firm, sheer hard work and my mother! To work in professional practice, you need a significant amount of strength and resilience and she was one of the strongest women I know.
How would you describe yourself to someone who’d never met you?
I would say that I am passionate about everything I do and full of energy. As a mother juggling a family with two young boys, my own career and all the other commitments that go with it, energy is something I need plenty of!
Who do you look up to in business?
I have the greatest respect for entrepreneurs that are willing to take a risk and start a new business, not only to make a success of it for themselves but to create wealth for others. Thankfully, providing services to companies of all sizes and across all sectors, I have the privilege of working with such leaders on a daily basis.
How do you get the best out of people who work for you?
The single most important thing I believe is never to ask somebody to do something that you wouldn’t be prepared to do yourself. We work as a team which makes the success of the firm a collective effort.
If you could change one thing about doing business in Northern Ireland, what would it be?
I, along with other business leaders, may sound like a broken record for saying it but the political stalemate at Stormont just has to stop. Meeting with clients across sectors as diverse as construction, education, motor retail and manufacturing, the impasse is among their most common complaints as they see economic growth stymied by the lack of decision making.
What website or app could you not do without?
Instagram is a guilty pleasure providing an escape from the daily rush!
What was the last book you read?
The last book I read was The Terrible Tuesday by Sabrina Barton from my hometown Omagh, about a woman who showed tremendous strength and courage in the face of adversity. A truly inspirational read!
What car do you drive?
I drive a BMW.
Tell us something interesting about yourself?
I have written a book, Advanced Auditing & Assurance which is the audit text book used in Chartered Accountants Ireland final auditing exams.
Also, if you had phoned to book your driving theory test in the late 1990s, the automated voice on the other end of the line was mine!
What’s your greatest passion outside work and family?
I love nothing more than getting away from it all to Portnoo in Co Donegal – a walk along the beach to the rocks is better than any spa treatment!
