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Emma Flanagan
Senior Manager Human Capital




What are your main responsibilities?

Managing a team of professionals in the provision of personal tax advice and specialising in the area of employee share incentive schemes.

What is the most interesting thing about your job?
Every work day is different and presents new challenges as a result of working in an area which is changing all the time.

What most prepared you for your current role?
Obtaining my professional qualifications, and related practical experience in global firms in Ireland and the UK.

What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
Awaiting Revenue’s Statement of Practice which is to address the income tax implications of cross boarder employees who are in receipt of stock options.

What was your best subject in school?
Maths.

What's your favourite saying/quotation?
'
Have you got a minute’.

How long go you spend commuting each day?
2.25 hours.

Favourite form of relaxation?
Spending time with family and friends and gardening.

What is the best book you have ever read?
No particular book comes to mind – I enjoy something light-hearted.

What's your favourite film?
The Commitments.

What's your favourite sporting moment?
European Ryder Cup 2002 win.

What is your pet hate?
Filling the car with petrol.

What's your ideal holiday?
Family holiday in the west of Ireland.

If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
1990 – I was a student working in the US for the summer!.

If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Grace Kelly.

What has been your proudest moment?
Arrival of our two sons.

If you were not doing what you are doing now, what other job would you be in?
Gardener.

What would you like your legacy to be?
Professionally – someone who always strived to achieve the best from themselves and their team.



 

 

 

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