Sinead joined O’Connor Pyne & Co Ltd in August 2016, having previously
been employed for 11 years as Company Secretarial Manager with
Ernst & Young, Cork. Prior to this Sinéad worked with both A&L Goodbody
Solicitors and Deloittes in Dublin.

Sinéad completed a BA in Business & Legal Studies in Waterford Institute of
Technology and subsequently graduated from UCC, in 2005, with a post graduate
degree and master’s degree in law.

Sinéad now has over 15 year’s experience working in the area of Company
Secretarial compliance. In addressing the specific requirements of our clients
Sinéad and our company secretarial team work closely with our tax and audit
departments to provide Company secretarial advice and services. Sinéad
specialises in providing advice and assistance on corporate changes.

Úna joined O’Connor Pyne in September 2015. She graduated for the Cork College of Commerce with a Diploma in Business Management. Úna has a strong background in customer service, as she previously worked for Eircom. Her kind personality and strong work ethic makes her a valuable addition to the team

Edwina joined O’Connor Pyne & Co in September 2016 as the company’s In-house Accountant. Her role encompasses maintaining the Practice Accounts with duties including bank, accounts payable, accounts receivable and dealing any client related accounts queries.

Edwina is a graduate of Cork Institute of Technology where she qualified with an honours degree in Business Studies and holds professional membership of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants since 2006. Edwina has over ten years’ experience in various areas of finance having worked in both practice and industry including such companies as Bord Gas Energy and Apple.

Christine initially began working as Receptionist in O’Connor Pyne in 2013. Following on from four years in her receptionist role she then completed a Higher Diploma in Human Recourse Management in UCC. Having completed this course, she became involved in the running of the O’Connor Pyne’s HR duties.

Christine has now progressed on to work within the Company Secretarial department in O’Connor Pyne. Her role includes monitoring the annual compliance of all client companies and ensuring all filing deadlines are met, formation of companies, maintaining company registers and minute books, preparing board minutes, drafting necessary paperwork to reflect changes to company officers/officer details/registered office/company name/share capital, strike off process of companies and preparing Companies Registration Office forms as required to reflect any changes.

Christine has since completed a Certificate in Company Secretarial Law & Practice through the Irish Law Society.

Michelle is a qualified Certified Public Accountant, specializing in Payroll, and joined O’ Connor Pyne in June 2015. Michelle has a vast knowledge of both Irish and UK payrolls. She has recently completed the Irish Payroll Association Ltd’s Certificate in Payroll Techniques.

She is responsible for Irish and UK weekly, fortnightly & monthly payrolls for small, medium and large businesses, varying in employees from 1 – 250 in each. She deals with social welfare queries, personal taxation, PRSI, Benefit In Kind (BIK), expenses, tax free payments, termination payments, redundancies, employer duties (PAYE Modernization Compliance, etc.) She also manages industry specific payrolls, and ensures compliance with all Industry Employer Obligations and WRC Inspections.

As well as the weekly and monthly payroll, Michelle deals with all employee related queries including Redundancy, Minimum Notice, arrears of wages, arrears of holiday pay, arrears of pensions and any awards made by the Employments Appeals Tribunal. Michelle calculates and returns all taxes and submits Payroll Submissions to the Revenue Commissioners.

Having worked in Restructuring services with several international firms including KPMG, Grant Thornton and BDO, Barry has extensive expertise in both corporate and personal restructuring and holds a qualification for insolvency.With over 30 years’ experience, Barry has worked with financial institutions, regulatory bodies, creditors and Revenue authorities on restructuring assignments particularly involving the challenging of antecedent transactions. He is currently trustee in bankruptcy over a number of Irish-based bankruptcies.Aside from formal insolvency processes, Barry has particular proficiency in a number of sectors including hotels & leisure, property, engineering and retail. He has also successfully implemented a number of arrangements between distressed companies and their creditors

Evelyn, a Chartered Tax Advisor with over 15 years experience, joined O’Connor Pyne in 2018. Evelyn specialises in providing tax compliance and consultancy advice to a diverse portfolio of domestic corporate and personal clients. Evelyn has a wealth of experience in corporate restructurings and tax planning for entrepreneurs and owner managed businesses.

Prior to joining O’Connor Pyne Evelyn worked with a Big 4 accountancy firm and in a senior role in the tax department of a Cork city law firm.

Evelyn has been involved in an education role with the Institute of Taxation for over 10 years.

Kaitriona joined O’Connor Pyne & Co. Limited as a trainee Chartered Accountant in August 2010 after graduating with a first class honours degree in Commerce from UCC. Kaitriona was admitted as a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland in 2014.

Since joining the firm she has become experienced in the areas of Accounts Preparation, Audit, Corporate and Personal Tax, Payroll and Revenue Audits. As well as maintaining her own portfolio of payroll clients, Kaitriona is involved in the preparation of financial statements for sole traders, partnerships and audit exempt companies across a variety of industries including agriculture, retail, wholesale, manufacturing, and professional services. Kaitriona is also responsible for the audit of individual and group companies with turnovers ranging from €2M to in excess of €15M.