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Public sector advisory
Public Sector Advisory (PSA) encompasses a range of services, processes, resources and tools designed to support the management and financial operations of public sector organisations. Public sector accounting and advisory services support government agencies, public sector entities (both national and local), as well as state funded charities and not for profits. These organisations do not operate in the same way as the private sector and operate in a unique context due to the public sector duty which is to be adhered to.
S&W have also built new services responding to the evolving needs of the public sector. These include a specialised internal audit service team and proposition, to support the increasing need for outsourcing of internal audits in public sector departments and agencies.
We have developed scaled grant administration outsource services to deliver on the increasing needs of funding agencies, whilst our dedicated accounting and finance business outsource team provide public sector accounting, accounts preparation, compliance and payroll services.
The benefits of public sector advisory?
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Year-round resourcing
Our dedicated team is focused solely on the public sector duty of our clients and not distracted by other competing demands. This ensures we are readily available on a constant and consistent basis to deliver to your timelines.
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Speed to market
Our knowledge and team expertise in the public sector means it can quickly deploy a large number of ready-to-go, out of-the-box solutions.
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Ability to scale
With offices in over 16 locations and a common resource platform across the firm we have the capacity and flexibility to scale up or down suit increasing volumes or peak demand periods.
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Advanced technology stack
A dedicated Technology Transformation team that works collaboratively with the PSA Team to deliver tech-enabled solutions to improve efficiencies, automation and processes.
Why choose S&W Ireland for your public sector accounting needs?
Our public sector assignments are delivered by our specialising in delivering on the diverse requirements of the public sector, semi state and state sector clients. This team is headed up by Damien Kealy, who has over 25 years’ experience advising government departments, government agencies, state bodies and national and European funding agencies.
Our public sector service suite includes but is not limited to:
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Consulting and advisory
including governance, accounting policies, systems and process improvement to national funding agencies to support migration of manual grants management systems
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Outsource grant management support and compliance services
to large national funding agencies, involving financial management and administration.
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Internal audit
including provision of outsource internal audit services to public bodies
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Outsourced accounting
including management accounts, bookkeeping, preparation of financial statutory accounts in line with C&AG requirements
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Outsource payroll
eliminates the need for an in-house payroll team by providing a fully integrated, outsourced payroll service including revenue returns
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Outsource financial and compliance resources
to ensure the compliance of funding programmes with European funding rules under the ERDF Programme
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Development of grant programme funding guidelines and eligibility rules
as well as terms and conditions, for the award of funding on behalf of a number of national funding agencies
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S&W is currently a member of The Office of Government Procurement Framework for the provision of Accounting, Audit & Financial Services to the Irish Public Sector.