About Daniel
Daniel Griffin is a chartered accountant with more than 10 years of experience across all areas of the finance function, focusing on financial modelling initiatives, M&A activities pre- and post-deal and finance operating model design to deliver substantial improvements in organisation performance. Daniel is the country lead for FTI Consulting’s Office of the CFO solutions practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Daniel has worked across numerous industries, including financial services, fast-moving consumer goods (“FMCG”), travel, technology, life sciences, insurance, energy and industrial manufacturing.
Daniel has a global portfolio of finance and finance transformation experience across a range of industries, having worked with a number of FTSE and Fortune 100-listed companies across North America, Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Daniel spent three years on the finance transformation team at Deloitte, where he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant. Following this, Daniel spent several years working in the FMCG industry with Kerry Group, based in Ireland and seconded to Asia Pacific, and working in various roles focused on record-to-report, order-to-cash and procure-to-pay.
Relevant Experience:
- Performed finance function assessment and enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) selection for a global real estate client with revenue of $4 billion, and was retained to manage ERP implementation.
- Managed the carve-out and stand-up of a finance function from a multinational energy provider with global revenue of €85 billion post-sale and legal entity separation.
- Lead the delivery of an integrated model to forecast a COVID-impacted care rental business over a three-year period as part of a global restructuring plan, resulting in the client negotiating €250 million in new funding in Europe and exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- Managed tenant operational reporting improvement, designing an improved data ingestion process and delivering a more advanced user experience in Power BI to increase overall quality of insight and usability.
- Performed financial modelling, management reporting and KPI reporting improvement for a private equity insurance business, in addition to post-ERP go-live and acquisition.
- Managed the migration of a private equity technology and software business’s finance function (people, process and technology) to a new location and legal entity, reducing cost per full-time equivalent by 20%.
- Built an integrated three-statement financial model for a private equity technology and software business that forecast the business over a three-year period and supported external debt and equity funding requirements
Associations
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Principles of Sustainable Finance, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Education
B.Sc., Accounting, University College Cork
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Contact
T: +353 1 672 9025
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Office
The Academy, Suites 2A & 2B
42 Pearse Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
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Expertise
Accounting Advisory
Cost Optimization
Financial Due Diligence
Financial Planning & Analysis
Office of the CFO Solutions