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
Role: Finance Transformation Senior Manager - 12 month contract
Location: Dublin 18 (HYBRID)
The Role
The Senior Manager, Finance Transformation will play a critical leadership role within the Financial Transformation team in Group Finance, driving and delivering ICON’s Finance Transformation strategy.
This role is central to enabling ICON’s financial strategy by designing, delivering, and embedding automated, scalable finance solutions that improve how Finance supports the business. The role will ensure systems, data, and processes are fit for purpose to support robust governance, efficient operations and finance processes, and informed decision‑making at scale.
The successful candidate will lead complex finance transformation initiatives, champion best‑in‑class automation and reporting, and help prepare the ICON Finance community for a more data‑led, digitally enabled, and value‑adding future.
ICON plc is a NASDAQ listed, Irish headquartered group. This is great opportunity to join and play a key role in ICON’s global finance team which has over 1,200 team members.
Key Responsibilities
- Project management of significant global change projects across all key finance disciplines ensuring business readiness for change.
- Work collaboratively with Finance, IT and Data teams to co‑develop solutions to complex finance and operational challenges.
- Lead the delivery of automated finance solutions, reducing manual effort and enhancing data quality, transparency, and insight.
- Work with Finance and IT to Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate finance processes while assessing and managing the impacts on Global end to end processes.
- Support in triaging and prioritising all system and process related change requests across the Global Finance Team.
- Translate business and finance needs into practical system and process solutions, while constructively challenging requirements to ensure best‑value outcomes.
- Support the integration of newly acquired businesses into ICON core enterprise systems and processes.
- Ensure transformed processes are designed with strong SOX and audit controls embedded by design.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, ownership, and accountability across finance transformation initiatives.
Experience requirements:
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with 8+ years PQE
- Proven experience in finance transformation, automation and systems change
- Strong programme and stakeholder management skills, leading multi‑disciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex problems, drive clarity, and deliver practical solutions.
- Confident, decisive communicator with a collaborative mindset and strong interpersonal skills.
- Experience with enterprise finance systems, reporting platforms and data‑led transformation.
- SOX control environment experience strongly 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, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised 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, subsidised 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.
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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Skills Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA) with 8+ years PQE
- Proven experience in finance transformation, automation and systems change
- Strong programme and stakeholder management skills
- Demonstrated ability to simplify complex problems and drive clarity
- Confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills
- Experience with enterprise finance systems
ICON plc Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as comprehensive, with medical coverage and wellness initiatives highlighted. Larger sites are also associated with added wellness supports such as onsite fitness options and access to an employee assistance program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off and flexibility provisions are positioned as a meaningful part of the total package, including vacation/annual leave and flexible work scheduling. Flexibility is sometimes cited as helping offset long hours in certain roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and savings support is presented as a core component of the benefits package, including offerings such as pension arrangements in some locations and a U.S. 401(k) plan with company match. Financial planning resources are also emphasized as part of broader security benefits.
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What We Do
Since our foundation in Dublin, Ireland in 1990, our mission has been to help our clients to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life. We do this by delivering best in class information, solutions and performance, with an unyielding focus on quality at all times. We offer a full range of consulting, development and commercialisation services from a global network of offices in 53 countries. We focus our innovation on the factors that are critical to our clients – reducing time to market, reducing cost, and increasing quality – and our global team of experts has extensive experience in a broad range of therapeutic areas.
