"The best moment I've ever had in my career," he said.

"We came out in the second half knowing we were 1-0 down but the manager told us to be patient, 'don't go for it straight away' and that we'd get our chances.

"Burkey scored a brilliant goal and again we knew if we kept it tight that we'd get one more chance.

"We got the corner and Burkey put a brilliant ball in which I managed to get on the end of. It was a great feeling.

"Burkey has been around the block. He knew how good a result a point would be.

"With me being young, I'm thinking, 'we can get a win here.'

"We also knew it was the last kick of the ball so we had to go for it.

"I knew he had the quality to put in a great area and fortunately I managed to put it away."

Findlay's delight was all to do with helping Killie to a second successive home win over Celtic rather than getting one over his former club.

The former Scotland Under-21 player said: "It's not a matter of getting one up on them at all.

"I'll be the first to admit that I didn't cut the standard that was needed at Celtic at that time.

"But I've gone away and taken a different path. I've gone to Newcastle and tried to develop my game there.

"I've played a lot of games for Killie now.

"I don't care what happened at Celtic as that's in the past. All that matters is I'm doing it for Killie now."

Boss Steve Clarke praised Findlay for playing through the pain barrier after missing training all week but the stopper had no intention of letting a knee problem beat him.

He said: "I picked up a knock in the last minute of the Hibs game and I was in pain.

"But I spoke with the physio who told me I hadn't done anything structurally.

"So although it was sore I knew it wasn't going to cause me any damage in the long run.

"It was sore at half-time but I just got myself rubbed down and did what I could to get myself out there.

"When I scored in the last minute I wasn't feeling my knee anyway."