Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP & A) -- Dublin -- Hybrid
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The Vice President, FP&A is a senior finance leadership role responsible for leading enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and strategic decision support within a complex, publicly listed global organisation. This role serves as a key business partner to the CFO, CAO, Executive Leadership Team, and Board, providing insightful financial leadership that supports growth, operational excellence, disciplined capital allocation, and long-term shareholder value creation. In addition to leading core FP&A activities, the Vice President will provide financial leadership for mergers and acquisitions activity and partner closely with Global Business Services (GBS) leadership to drive productivity, cost transparency, and operational efficiency initiatives across the organisation. This individual will operate within a highly regulated and SOX-compliant environment, ensuring strong financial governance, analytical rigor, and alignment between strategic priorities, operational execution, and external financial commitments.
What You Will Be Doing
Enterprise FP&A Leadership
Lead the global annual budget, long-range planning, and rolling forecast processes in alignment with corporate objectives and public company reporting requirements.
Deliver executive and Board-level financial reporting and analysis, including key performance drivers, risks, opportunities, sensitivities, and scenario modelling.
Drive enterprise performance management processes, ensuring transparency, accountability, and actionable insight across the organisation.
Partner with senior leadership to align strategic priorities, operating plans, and capital allocation decisions with financial performance objectives.
Maintain high standards of forecast accuracy, analytical integrity, and financial discipline across the FP&A function.
Strategic Finance & M&A
Serve as finance lead for mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investment activities, including valuation analysis, financial modelling, due diligence, investment committee materials, and post-acquisition value tracking.
Support enterprise growth initiatives through robust financial evaluation, business case development, and strategic scenario analysis.
Monitor and assess realised synergies and value creation against approved investment assumptions and strategic objectives.
Business Partnership & Operational Excellence
Partner closely with GBS leadership to enhance cost transparency, improve operational efficiency, and deliver committed productivity initiatives.
Provide financial insight and challenge to support operational decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives across the enterprise.
Foster strong collaboration across Finance, Operations, Legal, Risk, Investor Relations, and Corporate functions.
Investor, Capital Markets & Disclosure Support
Act as a key finance partner to the CFO, CAO, and Investor Relations teams in support of capital markets readiness and external financial communications.
Develop and maintain earnings bridges, scenario analyses, outlook modelling, and sensitivity assessments supporting investor messaging and earnings preparedness.
Support the preparation of materials for the Board, Audit Committee, and Disclosure Committee related to financial outlook, key judgements, and forward-looking statements.
Ensure consistency and alignment between internal forecasts, external disclosures, and strategic communications within approved governance frameworks.
Governance, SOX & Controls
Operate within a SOX-compliant environment, ensuring FP&A processes, assumptions, models, and reporting outputs are appropriately documented, reviewed, and controlled.
Support Disclosure Controls and Procedures (DCP) through delivery of accurate, complete, and consistent forward-looking financial information.
Partner with Controllership, Internal Audit, Legal, and Risk functions to support quarterly and annual certification processes.
Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, governance, and continuous improvement throughout the organisation.
To Be Successful You Will Need
Significant senior FP&A leadership experience within a large-scale, publicly listed multinational organisation.
Demonstrated experience partnering with executive leadership teams, Boards, and investor-facing functions.
Strong understanding of SOX compliance, disclosure controls, governance frameworks, and public company reporting environments.
Proven experience supporting M&A activities, including financial due diligence, valuation analysis, and post-deal integration/value tracking.
Strong strategic business partnering capabilities across global and shared services environments.
Exceptional analytical, financial modelling, and executive communication skills.
Ability to influence and challenge constructively at senior leadership level within a fast-paced, highly matrixed environment.
Strategic, commercially focused, and highly disciplined in approach, with strong financial and operational acumen.
Confident operating within a highly visible, publicly traded environment with demanding timelines and stakeholder expectations.
Executive presence with the ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and effectively to senior stakeholders.
Collaborative and results-oriented leadership style with a strong commitment to developing high-performing teams and fostering accountability.
Demonstrated integrity, sound judgement, and commitment to strong governance and financial transparency.
Professional accounting qualification required (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent).
Able to work from the Dublin office 3 days a week
Bachelor’s degree required; Masters Degree preferred
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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, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. 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.
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