Deirdre Kiely, Principal has over 35 years’ experience providing accounting, auditing and business advisory services to clients across a wide variety of sectors and industries including SME’s, Subsidiaries of International Groups, Professionals, Charities and Not for Profits and Corporates.

Deirdre was Head of the Audit, Advisory and Assurance department at one of Ireland’s top ten accountancy firms before establishing Kiely & Co.

Deirdre is past president of CPA Ireland and former chair of CPA Ireland’s Registration Committee. She is also a former chair of CPA Ireland’s Strategy Review Group, Auditing Practices Committee and former member of the Financial Reporting Committee. 

Deirdre has held a number of state board positions and was a board member of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency and the Courts Services. She was chair of the Audit Committee of the Court Services and was member of the Audit Committee of Tusla. Deirdre was also a board member of the Social Finance Foundation and past chair of its audit committee. She is a former board member and Audit Committee chair of Barnardos and also served on the regional board of Enterprise Ireland.

Deirdre is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She holds an honours degree and masters in law from University College Cork. She is also a qualified Barrister.