EisnerAmper Ireland | Frank Keane | Partner, Risk & Regulatory Ireland

Frank Keane

Frank is a Partner in the Firm’s Governance, Risk and Compliance “GRC” Advisory Department and is a member of the Board of EisnerAmper Global.  In the Firm’s GRC Department he offers services to Irish and Internationally owned regulated Firms seeking authorisation from or who are interacting with, the Central Bank of Ireland on strategy and business models, planned governance projects or acute matters  Frank often provides the output of advisory work in Board and Senior Management workshops and training.

Frank also leads the Firm’s Strategic Advisory & Facilitation services. Frank leads a team which provides Strategic Advices to clients across a range of sectors including government departments, semi-state agencies, third level institutions, professional membership organisations and scaling clients.  Frank also consults upon, designs and facilitates bespoke professional training programs to public and private sector organisations and internally, to our own professional staff.  Frank has designed and facilitated professional training programs for clients including government departments, leading law firms, educational institutions, Irish corporates, domestic credit unions and international banks.  Frank has previously been an Audit Partner, an Accounting and Compliance Partner and head of the Tax Department.

This broad experience allows Frank to take a “General Practioner” approach to what can be esoteric / technical in nature.  In this regard notwithstanding the ask of the client, Frank takes a consultative approach to the development of a solution.  This can involve international structuring, separation of operations from Intellectual property, fund location and related systems of governance.

Frank has always had an interest in learning and development and helping students with exams.  Frank has been a long time lecturer on Chartered Accountants Ireland’s (“CAI”) Final Admitting Exams (“FAE”) program and a External Examiner for the Institute of Bankers and UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Frank is a former long standing member of Chartered Accountants Ireland’s Education & Life Long Learning Committee and has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (“IADT”) with whom the Firm has a Memorandum of Understand. Frank has also had a number of books and study guides on Financial Statement Analysis published by the Institute of Bankers

Personal

Frank, married with three sons enjoys keeping fit and reading.

Contact

Direct Dial +353 1 2933 450

Email frank.keane@eisneramper.ie