Senior Manager, Financial Transformation

Role: Finance Transformation Senior Manager

Location: Dublin 18 (HYBRID)

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

The Role:

The Senior Manager Finance Transformation will work within the Financial Transformation team which is a department within the Financial Control Group.

The role will support ICON’s financial systems integration strategy to ensure systems and processes are fit for purpose in supporting the Group’s financial management and governance requirements.

Drive best practice solutions for system, process and people changes across the organisation.

Facilitate system and process changes across Finance, assessing impacts, challenge changes and being central point for assessing changes impacts.

Oversee delivery of key projects with responsibility for project managing key integration projects.

Responsibilities will include:

• Project management of significant change projects across all key finance disciplines and liaising with operational colleagues on ensuring change impact is managed appropriately.
• Provide leadership in the development, implementation and continuous improvement of systems, initiatives, and processes across finance.
• Work with teams to problem solve in the achievement of deliverables, on-time and on budget.
• Strong capacity to communicate actions, implications of data and drive action.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with operational business partners.
• Take responsibility for their own & others work within their functional area.
• Perform other reasonably related duties, analysis and special projects as assigned
• Preferably 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
• Preferably proficient or accomplished in using best in class reporting tools and technologies e.g. Power BI
• Travel (approximately 5%) domestic and/or international.

Experience requirements:

• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Ability to project manager significant multi-disciplinary senior teams
• Proven prior experience in finance process optimisation and automation
• Experience in a range of best in class finance disciplines including e.g. systems change, best practice reporting, Power BI Dashboard Implementation etc
• 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
• An experienced high performing ACA, ACCA with minimum 8 years PQE
• Prior IT and enterprise IT systems implementation experience (preferred)

Benefits of Working in ICON:

Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.

At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs.  In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the future.

ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and 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 through the form below.

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