Business Support
Meet the team that lead our Business Support talent advisory and recruitment practice, and discover how they can help you build and retain truly world class teams.
Your Business Support Partners
Our business support team has a deep understanding and experience of admin, human resources and operational finance assignments across a variety of levels for our partner organisations nationally.
Cole Carroll is Team Lead with Barden’s Business Support and Operational Finance Practice, and is based in our office in Dublin. She is an expert in part-qualified accountants and operational finance careers and recruitment.
Originally from Kildare, she is now rooted in the Northside of Dublin! Cole started her studies with the Institute of Technology Carlow and completed a BA (Hons) Sports Management Degree. She then transferred to complete her final year in Trinity University Dublin while on a rugby scholarship.
Cole has worked for a number of years in recruitment with a focus on the part-qualified accountants and operational finance markets. With Barden she helps people across a number of different areas in the accounting & finance world including part-qualified accountants, accounts payable, accounts receivable (up to Senior Manager levels), payroll, credit Control, and accounts assistants.
Susan Greene is as an Associate with Barden’s Business Support and Operational Finance Practice, and is based in our office in Cork. She is an expert in talent advisory and recruitment Practice and works directly with a variety of professionals and clients in all aspects of business support and operational finance.
She works alongside Cole Carroll and Tara Higgins in the Business Support and Operational Finance Practice providing support to people across different areas in business support such as human resources and administration. In the operational finance side of the practice the team looks after roles such as payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable and credit control.
Tara Higgins is Partner of the Business Support & Operational Finance Practice with Barden’s talent advisory and recruitment firm in Munster.
A core part of Tara’s role is working directly with professionals in the areas of Operational Finance and Business Support, helping them to identify and map out their future career path, and secure their ideal roles. Tara will also partner with clients to build world class teams in these, and other, areas of business.
A UCC grad, Tara started her career in finance before moving into recruitment in 2015. She joined Barden Munster in April 2018 at a very exciting time when the Munster office was in true start-up mode. Over the past number of years, she has helped our managing partners to grow various areas of the Munster business, which she is extremely passionate about.
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Bernardo Pina LLM
Bernardo Pina is a qualified lawyer in Portugal, having trained in a top tier Portuguese law firm. Bernardo went on to practise in-house in both Portugal and in Ireland with multinational companies in the technology and life sciences sectors. He is an expert in legal recruitment in Ireland and other international markets, focusing on opportunities for qualified lawyers, company secretarial and data protection professionals. Bernardo partners with a variety of organisations and professionals across all industries and sectors, both in private practice and in-house.
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Kiara Daly BCL
Kiara Daly is a founding member of Barden’s Legal Recruitment Practice. She is a qualified solicitor, having trained in a top tier Irish law firm and going on to gain post qualification experience both in private practice and in-house. Kiara has a nationwide scope, focusing on supporting organisations to build world class legal teams and working directly with professionals to identify and take the very best next steps in their legal careers.
Jonathan Olden BCL
Jonathan has an undergrad in law from UCC and qualified as a solicitor in 2006. Jonathan moved into recruitment in 2010 and has worked in leadership roles both locally and nationally since then. As a founding partner of Barden, Jonathan advises leadership teams across Munster on their talent attraction and retention strategy.
