With expertise in large, medium, and small operations, Mary has an amazing breadth of financial and operational knowledge. She is excellent to work with, providing support where needed and clear guidance when requested. From heavy industrial machining processes to more subtle time-intensive processes, her experience can add fiscal direction to firms of any size or complexity.
Rob Moore Ede
Senior Manager - Global Property Taxes at Magna International
Mary is one of the best professionals I’ve worked with. She is intelligent, hardworking and forward thinking. Her maturity and in-depth knowledge of their business made the project highly successful. As the Project Manager/Sponsor she knew exactly what was required and how they needed to be phased out to achieve the project goals. I’m sure she will apply the same professionalism, commitment and maturity in all her endeavors. It was my pleasure working with her on their project. Wishing her all the very best!!
Simaak Hameed,
Snr. Dynamics NAV Consultant at 360 Visibility
Mary worked with me in INVESCO Asset Management for a number of years and her professionalism, dedication and allround performance was top quality. Mary works really well within a team environment and can also manage a team to achieve their goals. I would highly recommend her to any employer.
Andy Barry,
Head of Traditional Fund Services Operations at JP Morgan
Mary came into an incredible mess. She took it on and solved the problem. Her real strengths are her skills to sort things out & the inclusion of people involved. She was superb, very easy to work well with. She continuously gave us an update. Mary could get her head around the various product lines very easily, which is a huge asset. She was instrumental in getting our inventory system bar-coded. She was also part of our recruitment drive to hire an operations manager to get our company onto the next level. I always felt we were on the same wave-length. She solved problems before they became problems. Her ability to juggle all the balls in the air and do a really good job is incredible! Mary also helped us get together a business plan for funding from the Irish Tourist Board. She has a lot more than accounting to offer. She is like a ’sponge’ on getting information.
Rachel Doyle
Founder of Arboretum Garden & Lifestyle Centres, Leighlinbridge, Carlow & Kilquade.
Mary Hayden is a person you can trust with your business. Super professional, wise beyond her years with phenomenal attention to detail. Her new book “From the Ground Up” is a masterclass in the foundations of a successful business, and like Mary, the advice is practical, measured and well researched. The book takes a no-nonsense look at the ten building blocks to business success. Unlike many books of this genre, Mary’s writing style is relatable, easy to distil and put into practice. If you are in business or thinking of getting into business and want guidance from tried, trusted and tested business leaders, Mary should be top of your list. As a person and as a professional, I cannot recommend her highly enough.
Dee Hutchinson,
Founder of Dee is for Digital
I first met Mary Hayden in late 2019 when she was considering a career change and was immediately impressed by her business knowledge and her passion for helping business owners. She has a unique combination of skills combining her finance qualification with a process-driven approach underpinned by her six sigma qualification. This approach allows her to look at a business end to end and figuring out efficient and effective solutions that contribute significantly to the bottom line. All of the Agile clients that Mary has worked with since she started working with us in April 2020 have been hugely impressed by her enthusiasm and practical solutions. She has been great to work with and continues to make a significant contribution to The Agile Executive.
Tony Dignam,
CEO of The Agile Executive
Mary Hayden made a significant difference to our business. Some tasks, such as application for R&D Tax exemption was a daunting task for us. Mary put us in the right direction.
I found the whole experience very rewarding from both a business and personal level, and I put this down mainly to Mary Hayden and how she approached the sessions.
SFA/Skillnet Mentors work Program
Mary joined us under the mentors work via the Agile Executive, a super company that facilitated the programme. Still, Mary has stayed to become our part-time CFO and has made a considerable change to how we grow our business as a growing SME. Having a transparent view of all things financial and knowing that VAT, PRSI Grants and supports are clean is imperative as we employ more staff and invest in growth. Mary focuses on cash flow and is a sales orientated finance professional who wants to understand the business and see it grow safely and sustainably. I can recommend Mary’s persistence and attention to detail for any business that needs to control their finance.
Ann-Marie McSorley,
CEO & Founder Veri - Fioru Software Solutions Ltd
On upgrading our accounts system, I was introduced to Mary Hayden, the perfect candidate. On her first visit, it was evident that Mary is a highly skilled, organized and unique individual. She listens, hears and acts accordingly. Mary's attention to detail is impeccable as is her timekeeping. Mary ploughed through the heavy soil of queries with patience, sowing new seed with her replies, enabling the company to reap the fullest harvest going forward. Mary is passionate about her work and in helping others, is enthusiastic, hard working, a true professional. We, at AJD Stairs have no hesitation in recommending Mary to any business or individual who may be in need of any of the array of services she provides.
Mary Butler,
AJD Stairs
