Meet the team

John McDonnell is a partner in the banking and capital markets group. John has worked extensively with key Irish and international banks and financial institutions. John also has considerable experience in the retail banking, wholesale banking and capital markets. John leads the Financial Risk and Regulatory Group.

John provides a full range of audit, advisory and regulatory services to these clients including; audit and accounting advice, controls reviews, treasury reviews, Sarbanes Oxley advice, acquisition and reorganisation advice, corporate governance, prudential and conduct regulation, risk reviews and financial investigations.

John is a member of PwC's Global Accounting Consulting Services Team specialising in accounting for financial instruments and banking products and the chairman of PwC's IFRS Global Banking and Capital Markets Committee.

John is consulted regularly on major accounting issues for both our Irish and International financial services clients.

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Ronan is a Partner and leads our audit services to the treasury, capital markets, leasing and structured finance sectors. In this capacity, Ronan provides external audit services, as well as advisory assistance and reviews to domestic and multinational clients.

He has significant experience in the implementation of IFRS, US GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley. He is also responsible for the market risk services within PwC Ireland which provide advice on strategy, controls, complex accounting and valuation related issues impacting banks, treasuries and structured finance companies today.

Ronan is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers, where he is a past president.

He is also responsible for the Firm's Risk and Quality function, and in this role, is a member of PwC Ireland's Leadership Team.

Phone: +353 86 811 5736

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Emma is the firm's people leader and a member of the firm's leadership team.

Emma is an assurance partner in the banking, insurance and aviation finance group. Emma has more than 25 years of audit and assurance experience including four years with PwC Australia.

Emma leads audit engagements on a portfolio of large international and domestic banking, insurance and aviation finance clients. She has expertise in IFRS, US GAAP, capital market transactions and Sarbanes-Oxley controls.

Emma is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Phone: +353 86 837 6706

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Ivan McLoughlin is a partner in the audit practice and specialises in the banking industry.

Ivan has over 16 years of experience as a partner and during this time has worked with a range of domestic and international banks specialising in retail and corporate banking, leasing, investment banking and securitisations.

Ivan is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Phone: +353 86 810 6812

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John O'Leary is a partner in the tax services practice. John specialises in insurance and banking and advises on structured finance transactions.

John has extensive experience advising on Irish and international tax issues and has assisted many insurance and banking MNCs to establish and develop EU headquarter operations in Ireland.

John is a regular speaker and presenter on international tax issues facing the financial services industry and is a member of the tax committee of the IFSC Insurance Group which advises the Irish government on tax policy for international financial services.

John is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and an associate of the Irish Taxation Institute.

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Yvonne Thompson is a partner in the PwC financial services tax practice in Ireland, specialising in the corporate taxation of banking, fintech and leasing operations.

Yvonne has extensive experience advising financial services clients on all aspects of domestic and international cross-border tax matters. Yvonne leads the Aviation Finance market sector for the firm and is also the Financial Services Leader for Ireland.

Yvonne is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Phone: +353 86 044 0268

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Ciarán Kelly leads the advisory services team at PwC Ireland and is a member of PwC Ireland's Leadership Team.

Ciarán leads complex business, operational and technology transformation programmes for many of our financial services clients. Ciaran has supported many domestic and international clients to successfully deliver lasting change.

Ciarán's experience of over 30 years spans professional services and Financial Services industry roles. Ciarán's areas of expertise include: FS technology, transforming operational risk, payments, cyber, strategic cost reduction and process redesign.

Phone: +353 86 810 6408

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Kieran O'Dwyer is a partner in the firm's financial services consulting practice. Kieran has over 15 years of experience working with Irish and international banks, international funds and asset and loan servicing firms.

He has supported a number of banks in implementing strategies for managing non-performing exposures as well as advising extensively on the set up of loan servicing operations. In recent years, he has focused on helping financial services organisations use data and technology to drive efficiencies to make their operations fit for the future.

Kieran is a member of Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Phone: +353 87 978 8980

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Féilim is an advisory partner on PwC Ireland's consulting team. He has extensive experience in providing business advisory and consulting services across industries with a particular focus on the financial services sector in Ireland and internationally.

Féilim specialises in change and programme management, business transformation and working with clients to find solutions to efficiency and effectiveness challenges within their businesses.

He has worked successfully with some of the country's leading organisations on a diverse range of significant business change projects. These include establishing sizeable new organisations and business functions, leading complex business transformation programmes and overseeing operating model improvement programmes.

Phone: +353 86 387 0070

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Sinéad Ovenden is a partner in our consulting practice, specialising in financial services (FS) regulation. She has more than 15 years of experience specialising in financial services compliance and regulation, having worked within the financial services sector in Ireland, Australia and the UK.

Sinéad provides advice to clients on all aspects of financial services regulation from implementation of new requirements to large scale remediation projects. Sinéad has also represented the financial services industry on many technical working committees helping to influence and shape new financial services regulation.

Phone: +353 86 825 9109

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Dervla McCormack leads the Financial Services Risk and Regulation Consulting Team. She is also the firm's banking leader.

Given the ever changing financial services landscape, Dervla works with banking, capital markets and wealth management clients supporting them with strategy, transformation and banking operations programmes. Operating in a regulated environment, Dervla works with clients to operationalise regulations and deal with remediation issues that arise.

Dervla is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland.

Phone: +353 87 283 4578

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