Senior Financial Accountant

Senior Financial Accountant

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.

Senior Financial Accountant

Location : Chennai

The role is responsible for leading the end‑to‑end reporting function, including building scalable data models, KPIs, and Power BI dashboards that meet business needs. You will partner with IT and cross‑functional teams to deliver tailored reporting solutions and support advanced analytics such as scenario and trend analysis.

You will ensure the accuracy, quality, and timely delivery of all recurring and ad‑hoc reports, implementing strong controls and proactively resolving data issues.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Prepare and distribute monthly reports to the wider finance organization in a timely and accurate manner.
• Own the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of all reports within the reporting function.
• Ensure all recurring and ad‑hoc reports are delivered on time with no compromise on data quality or integrity.
• Implement robust validation checks, controls, and review processes to maintain high reporting standards.
• Proactively identify data issues, gaps, or inconsistencies and lead corrective action initiatives.
• Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and excellence in reporting.
• Design and develop scalable data models, KPIs, visualizations, and reporting frameworks aligned with evolving business needs.
• Collaborate closely with IT teams to design, develop, and implement customized reporting and analytics solutions that meet business requirements.
• Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to understand reporting needs and translate them into effective data solutions.
• Support scenario analysis, trend analysis, and predictive insights to enable informed business decision‑making.
• Drive continuous improvement of dashboards and reporting solutions to enhance usability, performance, and insight quality
• Deliver clear, impactful data presentations to senior leadership and C‑suite executives.
• Translate complex data and analyses into compelling, business‑focused narratives that drive strategic decision‑making.

Your Profile:

• Qualified or Semi‑Qualified Accounting Professional, such as CPA, CWA, CA, or CMA.
• 5+ years of overall experience, including 3+ years of hands‑on experience in developing end‑to‑end dashboards and analytical reports.
• Strong technical expertise in Power BI, Alteryx, and related reporting/analytics tools.
• Proven experience in presenting insights to senior leadership and C‑suite executives.

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.

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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