Senior Manager, Finance
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Group Accounting Senior Manager
ICON plc, a leading Contract Research Organisation, employing approximately 13,500 employees across 97 offices in 38 countries, seeks an experienced and highly motivated Technical Accounting Manager to join its Finance Department at its Leopardstown Global HQ.
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, Group accounting senior manager to join ICON’s experienced and highly motivated finance team.
Based in our global HQ, this is a fantastic opportunity to join one of Ireland’s leading Plcs where you can help make an impact globally and support ICON’s mission to help its clients to accelerate the development of drugs and medical devices that save patient lives and improve their quality of life.
The Role:
The Senior Manager of Group Accounting will work within the ICON Group accounting team to provide technical accounting leadership to the wider group finance teams and senior leadership teams.
The individual will support the wider finance team in ensuring compliance with increasing US GAAP, IFRS and other regulatory requirements (including SOX) for the Group and support continuous improvement in policies and procedures across the accounting/financial reporting group processes. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and dealing with accounting matters related to complex transactions and providing support to the wider ICON finance teams in dealing with once-off or unusual business transactions or events. This individual will be an experienced high performing finance professional with an ability to identify and lead development, implementation of best in class projects systems, initiatives and processes.
Responsibilities will include:
- Work with the group accounting team to ensure external reporting to stock exchange reporting obligations under both US GAAP and IFRS are best in class
- Provide accounting and regulatory guidance (both US GAAP & IFRS) to internal customers and stakeholders on key accounting issues impacting the business.
- Proficient in operating in and leading a strong SOX control environment, and providing guidance and direction to the wider group finance team for continuous improvement
- Research and analyze the potential impact of new business proposals, transactions, accounting trends, concepts, principles and regulations to determine actual and/or potential impact.
- Collaborate with internal customers and stakeholders to develop & continually improve processes & systems for both external and internal financial reporting.
- Work with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement group strategy and projects (legal, tax, treasury, IT, finance)
- Provide leadership in the integration of acquisition targets into the group finance structure
- Provide leadership in the development, implementation and continuous improvement of systems, initiatives and processes.
- Driving project related activity on acquisitions, changes in group structure and providing ad hoc accounting technical and commercial support across the wider finance teams.
Experience requirements:
- An experienced high performing ACA, ACCA with minimum 8 years PQE
- Fully conversant with accounting standards across multiple GAAPs.
- Experienced in a range of finance disciplines including e.g. US GAAP and IFRS, SOX compliance, best practice reporting, taxation, and treasury.
- An ability to identify and lead development, implementation and continuous improvement of projects systems, initiatives and processes.
- An ability to identify areas for improvement and best in class practice
- A confident, decisive person with strong interpersonal skills
- An accomplished professional who is tenacious and determined
Benefits of Working in ICON:
ICON enjoys a strong reputation for quality and is focused on staff development. We make it our mission to attract the most diverse and creative minds into the business and we continually strive to provide opportunities for our people to excel, grow and build a great career.
We understand that our greatest asset is the skills and talents of our people and they are truly what set us apart. Other than working with a great team of smart and energetic people, we also offer a very competitive benefits package. This varies from country to country so a dedicated recruiter will discuss this with you at interview stage. We care about our people as they are the key to our success. We provide an open and friendly work environment where we empower people and provide them with opportunities to develop their long term career.
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