Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Maintain an appropriate controls environment within your function
• 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 fin

Benefits

Additional Information

Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP & A) -- Dublin -- Hybrid ICON is a global healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation united by a mission to bring new medicines and treatments to patients faster. As a values-driven organisation, integrity, collaboration, agility, and inclusion are at the heart of how we work and interact with each other, customers, patients and suppliers. 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.

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