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Business Consulting
Our Consulting team guarantees quick turnarounds, lower partner-to-staff ratio than most and superior results delivered on a range of services.
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Business Risk Services
Our Business Risk Services team deliver practical and pragmatic solutions that support clients in growing and protecting the inherent value of their businesses.
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Deal Advisory
Our experienced Deal Advisory team has provided a range of transaction, valuation, deal advisory and restructuring services to clients for the past two decades.
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Digital Risk
Our Digital Risk team offer advisory and consulting solutions that give our clients peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to cyber attacks.
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Digital Transformation
Our Digital Transformation team work with business leaders to deliver efficient digital strategies and operating models that provide new or enhanced capabilities.
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Forensic Accounting
Our Forensic and Investigation Services team have targeted solutions to solve difficult challenges - making the difference between finding the truth or being left in the dark.
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Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a goal setting framework that helps teams, individuals and organisations set and track measurable goals.
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People and Change Consulting
Our People & Change Consulting team help clients adapt to the changing nature of the workforce - how they attract, retain, engage, develop, deploy and lead their people.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Our FAAS team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.
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Restructuring
Grant Thornton is Ireland’s leading provider of insolvency and corporate recovery solutions.

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Outsourced Payroll
Our outsourced payroll teams become your dedicated payroll department, aiming to process your payroll in the most cost effective and compliant manner.
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Outsourcing
Grant Thornton's reliable and cost-effective outsourcing services help you streamline your business operations by taking care of your workload.

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Actuarial
Our Actuarial team provides a comprehensive range of services to our insurance clients. From regulatory support for compliance to delivering specialist expertise in insurance & reinsurance.
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Data Analytics
Our team helps to unlock the potential of data analytics within your organisation, allowing you to be more innovative, efficient and customer-centric than ever before.
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Digital and Fintech
Our FinTech team are experts in technology and financial services and have a long track record of helping companies achieve sustained advantage.
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Digital Risk
Our Digital Risk team offer advisory and consulting solutions that give our clients peace of mind, clear value for money and an enhanced ability to react to cyber attacks.
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Financial Services Audit
Our Financial Services Audit team offers expertise and knowledge along with a horizontal approach to solving clients’ problems and queries.
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Financial Services Consulting
We work closely with clients to understand their strategy and benchmark their performance against the very best international standards.
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FS Business Risk Services
Our FS Business Risk team have real experience of the financial services sector, through working within regulatory bodies or holding leadership positions in Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit functions.
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Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustees Limited
The Grant Thornton Pensioneer Trustee service can offer business owners, directors and employees the opportunity to manage their own retirement choices with full transparency.
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Pension Audit
The Grant Thornton Pension Audit team has vast experience in managing schemes and preparing annual reports on them for clients.
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Prudential Risk
Our industry leading Prudential Risk team works with clients on a range of areas including regulatory reporting, regulatory authorisations, on-site investigations and data quality assurance.
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Quantitative Risk
Our Quantitative Risk team members bring a wide range of experience with many of them having backgrounds in banking, investment markets, regulation, professional practice, and academia.
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Sustainability desk
We recognise that businesses are operating at different levels of maturity when it comes to sustainability, and pride ourselves on working with our clients to develop bespoke solutions to their needs.
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Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS)
Our Financial Accounting and Advisory Services (FAAS) team designs and implements creative solutions for organisations expanding into new markets or undertaking functional financial transformations.

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Corporate Tax
Our Corporate Tax team is made up of more than 40 highly experienced senior partners and directors who work directly with a wide range of domestic and international clients; covering Corporation Tax, Company Secretarial, Employer Solutions, Global Mobility and Tax Incentives.
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Financial Services Tax
The Grant Thornton team is made up of experts who are fully up to date in terms of changing and evolving tax legislation. This is combined with industry expertise and an in-depth knowledge of the evolving financial services regulatory landscape.
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International Tax
We develop close relationships with clients in order to gain a deep understanding of their businesses to ensure they make the right operational decisions. The wrong decision on how a company sells into a new market or establishes a new subsidiary can have major tax implications.
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Private Client Services
Grant Thornton’s Private Client Services team can advise you on all areas of financial, pension, investment, succession and inheritance planning. We understand that each individual’s circumstances are different to the next and we tailor our services to suit your specific needs.
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VAT
Grant Thornton’s team of indirect tax specialists helps a range of clients across a variety of sectors including pharmaceuticals, financial services, construction and property and food to navigate these complexities.

Experience
Dwayne joined Grant Thornton in 2016 as a Partner to head the firm’s FS risk and regulatory advisory services offering in our FS Advisory unit. He helps lead the firm’s risk and regulatory offering focusing on Quantitative Risk Advisory, Model Risk, Development and Validation, Regulatory Risk and Strategy, Regulatory Support services, Risk Advisory and Complex Valuations.
Sector experience
Dwayne has advised a range of large institutions and led significant engagements in the areas of:
- ECB NPL Strategy and NPL Resolution;
- Internal model (IRB), Stress Testing and IFRS9 model development, validation and review;
- Supporting regulatory strategy, SREP/ Pillar 2 responses, Recovery Planning and Risk Appetite Framework development;
- 3LOD operating design and implementation;
- BCBS 239, regulatory data and reporting; and
- Authorisations and licence advice across all financial services sectors.
Previously, Dwayne held a senior role in the Central Bank of Ireland as Head of Banking Supervision: Analysis Division. In this role, he was responsible for managing and leading a large team across six functional areas ranging from Stress Testing, Risk Models, Supervisory Policy, Recovery Planning and Licence Authorisation. He held a central position in the post-2008-2013 crisis management of the Central Bank and I was a key architect of the many of the reforms in Banking Supervision.
Dwayne represented the Central Bank in a number of ECB (SSM) committees including the Comprehensive Assessment (“CA”) SteerCo and the Targeted Review of Internal Models (“TRIM”) ExCo, as well as numerous European Banking Authority (“EBA”) policy committees and working groups.
Dwayne is a recognised thought leader in the financial services industry with a track record of leadership, design and delivery of some of the highest profile projects, including:
- AIB’s NPL Deleveraging Programme;
- AIB’s Internal Ratings Based multi-year re-development programme;
- The Central Bank’s CA (Asset Quality Review (“AQR”) and Stress Test) for the ECB/ SSM;
- The Balance Sheet Assessment (“BSA”), incorporating AQR, provisions and RWA review, and Loan Loss Forecasting (“LLF”) projects;
- Acting as regulatory lead on the design and execution of the liquidation of IBRC and the Promissory Note (“Pro Note”) restructuring;
- Instrumental in the Distressed Credit Operations Review (“DCOR”) and the introduction of Mortgage Arrears Resolution Targets (“MART”) and SME Arrears targets;
- Acting as project lead to the PCAR bank stress test, as part of the Financial Measures Programme (“FMP”) and restructuring of the banking system; and
- Acting as technical lead on financial sector reform negotiations with the Troika (IMF, ECB and EU Commission).
Finally, Dwayne has presented at numerous conferences and events including a joint World Bank and IMF seminar on NPLs in Beijing, Washington and Frankfurt. His expertise cover: Risk, Consulting, Regulatory Advisory, Financial Services Advisory, Banks, Asset Management, Funds, Insurance, Quantitative Risk Advisory, Risk & Regulatory Advisory, Strategy and Support services, IRB, Stress Testing, IFRS9, TRIM, BCBS 239, regulatory reporting, and data analytics.
- MSc in Investment & Treasury DCU Business School
- Degree in Business Studies from DCU Business School
