Financial Analyst II

Financial Analyst II, Channai

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

Summary:

This person will be an integral member of the Global Commercial Finance team at ICON supporting the credit check and funding risk assessment process.  This person will also be responsible for further developing and fine tuning the credit check and funding risk assessment process. The role of the Commercial Finance team at ICON is the pre & post award negotiation and management of commercial terms, at both partnership and transactional levels, that maximize downstream financial and operational performance and minimize the associated legal, financial, and contractual risks.

What you will be doing:

• Own and manage the credit risk process for new business (being new clients plus new opportunities with existing clients).
• Further improve and develop the credit risk and funding process for new and existing business (being new clients plus new opportunities with existing clients).
• Provide timely assessments to the Proposals and Commercial Finance team to ensure client credit risks are acceptable and suitable for delivery to c-suite. 
• Collaborate with Finance colleagues to continue to help ensure ICON’s track record of strong cash collections and limited bad debts is maintained.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Business Development team and senior leaders in various functional areas
• Ensure integrity of the credit check tracking process so as to ensure precision and accuracy for both internal analysis  and decision making.
• Effective utilization of available internal financial tools and publicly available data to aid better decision making
• Recognize, exemplify and adhere to ICON's values which center around our commitment to People, clients and Performance.
• As a member of staff, the employee is expected to embrace and contribute to our culture of process improvement with a focus on streamlining our processes adding value to our business and meeting client needs.
• Travel (approximately 5%) domestic and/or international

Your Profile:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• 3+ years of commercial finance or accounting experience, preferably in a services arena
• Proven ability to resolve conflicts
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) with the ability to inspire confidence
• Ability to interact with and influence a variety of personnel across the organization including Executive Management team
• Excellent organizational and research skills with the ability to plan and manage projects
• Demonstrate ability in being able to switch between micro and macro view
• Excellent working knowledge of MS office package, in particular Excel.
• Experience in creating and developing PowerBI dashboards from large subset of complex data.
• Very strong focus on accuracy and quality of information provided; attention to detail
• Very strong focus on delivery of quality outputs in a timely manner to clients (internal and external)
• Bachelor’s Degree or local equivalent, in accounting, finance, business or related discipline.
• Qualified or Semi qualified Professional Accountancy Qualification (CPA/ CWA/CA/ CMA)

What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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