Donal Smith
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Credentials
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Professional Diploma in Analytics & AI
The Analytics Institute of IrelandMay, 2023- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Hostelworld Group
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Ireland
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Travel Arrangements
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200 - 300 Employee
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May 2020 - Present
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Feb 2018 - May 2020
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International Airlines Group (IAG)
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United Kingdom
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Airlines and Aviation
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300 - 400 Employee
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Group Manager - User Charges and Regulation
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Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the airport user charges across International Airlines Group. Owner of the relationship between the procurement function and the Finance, Network Planning and Marketing teams in British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling, as well as managing the relationship and leading the commercial negotiations on behalf of the group with all airports in Ireland, United Kingdom and Northern Europe. Responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the airport user charges across International Airlines Group. Owner of the relationship between the procurement function and the Finance, Network Planning and Marketing teams in British Airways, Aer Lingus, Iberia and Vueling, as well as managing the relationship and leading the commercial negotiations on behalf of the group with all airports in Ireland, United Kingdom and Northern Europe.
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Aer Lingus
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Ireland
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Airlines and Aviation
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700 & Above Employee
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Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Responsible for managing the Network Development team in ensuring maximum route profitability of future schedules and completing business cases for board approval relating to new and redeployed routes. Owner of the relationship between Network Planning, Finance, Revenue Management, Procurement, Marketing and Sales departments to ensure alignment across the areas prior to schedule announcement and business case approval.
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Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Ownership of the resource budgets and business plans for the Catering and Ground Operation areas, recruiting and managing a team of four to ensure costs remain on target against budget and rosters were published within the timelines agreed with Unions. Business partner for finance at month end to analyse variances in costs versus planned for COO review. Responsible for regaining competitiveness in the market by reducing staff costs through the introduction of various initiatives.
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Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Responsible for preparing the financial plan for Ground Operations area and creating new automated templates to track actual costs versus planned using the Time Management System and staff KPI’s versus industry standard.
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EY
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Assistant Manager
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Sep 2009 - Feb 2014
Completed training contract, professional exams (ACA) and obtained promotion to Assistant Manager in a period of over four years within the Industrial Commercial and Technologies department of EY, specialising in the audits of pharmaceutical, retail, hospitality, construction and financial software organisations. Main responsibilities included: - Reviewing clients’ accounting, reporting and inventory management systems and controls and preparing internal control reports for presentation to clients management; - Preparing and reviewing financial statements under Irish GAAP and reconciliation between IFRS and US GAAP to Irish GAAP statutory accounts; - Managing the audit team and client budget while reviewing junior staff members audit work papers; - Experience with a number of accounting packages, in particular SAP and Oracle; - Other: Participation in EY graduate recruitment programmes in various universities; and - Other: Instructor of course material to both Irish and UK graduates. This involved two weeks of personal training in instructing and delivery methods and two weeks delivering the training to the new graduates. Show less
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Financial Assistant
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Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
Worked in the finance department of IBM for two months during college to gain experience in Industry. Main duties were to help in finalising weekly payroll and expenses for the sales teams. Worked in the finance department of IBM for two months during college to gain experience in Industry. Main duties were to help in finalising weekly payroll and expenses for the sales teams.
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Deloitte
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Audit Assistant
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Jun 2008 - Jun 2008
Obtained one month experience in the Financial Services department of Deloitte as an audit assistant. Obtained one month experience in the Financial Services department of Deloitte as an audit assistant.
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Education
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Irish Management Institute
Leading Strategy Execution -
Chartered Accountants Ireland
ACA -
Dublin City University
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Accounting and Finance -
Scoil Dara, Kilcock