Jobs at ICON plc

Designs, delivers, and evolves commercial training and enablement programs spanning bid defense, onboarding, coaching, and capability development. Builds reusable methodologies, playbooks, frameworks, and training resources; partners with commercial, operational, therapeutic, and senior leadership teams; drives best-practice adoption across global business units; and supports continuous performance improvement in a clinical research and CRO environment.

Manage global treasury activities, including cash and liquidity planning, banking relationships, intercompany funding, treasury systems, reporting, controls, and risk management. Lead process improvements, support treasury projects, advise cross-functional teams, and develop team talent while ensuring compliance with financing frameworks.

Own the strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end lifecycle of AI-powered products built on a multi-agent framework and central AI platform. Translate business needs into product specifications, manage backlogs, partner with engineering teams, define success metrics, lead launches, and communicate priorities to stakeholders. The role requires technical product management expertise, AI product delivery experience, strong stakeholder management, and data-driven decision-making.

Leads ICON’s finance business partnering function supporting clinical projects. Oversees financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, controls, strategic planning, portfolio analysis, and financial efficiency initiatives. Partners with project management, clinical operations, and leadership to provide financial insights. Manages, mentors, and develops the finance team while ensuring compliance, accountability, accurate outcomes, and continuous improvement.

Oversee financial planning, budgeting, analysis, reporting, and financial management operations. Develop financial models for project evaluation and resource allocation, provide strategic performance insights, ensure accurate stakeholder reporting, and lead and mentor finance professionals.

Processes and verifies invoices, reconciles accounts payable transactions, resolves discrepancies, communicates with vendors and internal stakeholders, prepares payments, and maintains accurate financial records. Supports efficient financial operations through accurate transaction processing and compliance with company policies.

Leads global HR Shared Services transformation through process standardization, Workday HCM enhancements, automation, governance, and service delivery improvements. Manages requirements, solution design, testing, UAT, change management, training, and adoption. Oversees Workday Help knowledge content and case trend analysis to improve self-service and reduce volumes. Partners with HR, Talent Acquisition, Payroll, HR Technology, and regional teams. This is a 12-month contract role.

Manage US and Canadian payroll operations, including bi-weekly payroll processing, provider instructions, accuracy checks, payments, year-end activities, audits, SOX documentation, reporting, and process improvements. Lead, coach, and mentor payroll specialists while coordinating with Finance, HR, Legal, Tax, and external providers. Support payroll projects and ensure accurate, timely, compliant delivery under strict deadlines.

Manages and grows copyright-holder and client accounts for Clinical Outcome Assessment services. Responsibilities include project planning, feasibility research, costing, proposal development, pipeline tracking, contract management, account reporting, COA distribution setup, copyright due diligence, issue resolution, and cross-functional collaboration with legal, licensing, operations, and commercial teams.

Advance analytics and ML solutions for a global pharma client: develop, implement and monitor models; build data models and BI analyses (Spotfire); liaise with stakeholders; improve provisioning and inspection-ready documentation; apply statistical methods to solve business use cases.

Leads ICON’s enterprise AI engineering platform, multi-agent framework, and agent services. Responsibilities include platform development, CI/CD, testing, deployment governance, monitoring, incident management, security, compliance, and responsible AI. The role manages and mentors engineering teams, oversees delivery across AI programs, supports technology roadmaps, and partners with stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, reliable production AI systems.

Supervise accounts payable and corporate credit card operations, including reconciliations, transaction processing, reporting, compliance, audit controls, issue resolution, and stakeholder communications. Lead team workflows, manage escalations, coach employees, and drive process improvements. Partner with banking, Finance, and Compliance teams to improve operational efficiency and cardholder experience while ensuring accurate, timely deliverables.

Partners with senior leaders to develop HR strategies, improve organizational effectiveness, advise on talent and performance management, drive employee engagement and inclusion, analyze workforce metrics, and lead a team of HR professionals.

Serves as the highest technical escalation point for global network operations. Leads complex incident resolution, root cause analysis, mentoring, network troubleshooting, infrastructure projects, datacenter migrations, cloud connectivity, security reviews, and enterprise network design. Supports Cisco ACI, firewalls, load balancers, SD-WAN, routing, switching, cloud networking, automation, monitoring, and network security across mission-critical environments.

Administer and support ICON’s enterprise Citrix environment, including patching, lifecycle management, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, performance optimization, and platform stability. The role manages Citrix-related services, resolves escalated issues, maintains technical documentation, improves operations, and participates in change and maintenance activities. Candidates need extensive Citrix administration experience, Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, PowerShell, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise troubleshooting skills.

Lead Irish and international tax matters across ICON entities, overseeing compliance, audits, tax planning, reporting, R&D tax credits, and cross-border issues. Advise senior stakeholders on corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing, and withholding tax; support expansions, restructurings, acquisitions, and entity setups. Manage external advisers and global finance teams, monitor legislative changes, improve tax processes and controls, and mentor tax professionals.

Leads ICON’s enterprise internal controls and SOX compliance program, including risk assessment, scoping, testing, deficiency evaluation, remediation, reporting, and continuous improvement. Oversees second-line controls testing and coordinates with Finance, Technology, Internal Audit, external auditors, and governance forums. Advises executives and control owners, supports M&A control integration, develops team capability, and strengthens financial reporting controls across business and technology processes.

Support financial planning and month-end processes by preparing client and internal study reports, forecasts, budget reconciliations, dashboards and commentary; partner with operations to review study financial health, identify risks, and drive actions across stakeholders.

The role involves financial planning, forecasting, and analysis to support decision-making, while collaborating with business leaders and mentoring finance colleagues.

The Senior Manager of Finance Business Partnering leads financial management for global portfolios, aligning financial strategies with business goals, providing insights, and mentoring finance staff.