As a Finance Partnership Accountability Manager you will be joining the world’s largest & most comprehensive clinical research organisation, powered by healthcare intelligence. **What you will be doing:** The service holder provides leadership, direct oversight, coordination or support of assigned programs and projects within the department to ensure that all allocated activities and tasks are conducted per Innovative Medicine’s Research & Development requirements. They will serve as a subject matter expert for assigned activities including identifying and implementing financial efficiencies across Global Development. The provider resource that will perform the services will partner with Innovative Medicine’s Research & Development Procurement, Finance, and other cross functional team members to execute a clinical partnership accountability strategy. This includes ensuring execution of related category contracts and corresponding business operations oversight. Supplier types for Business Operations Processes and Training include, but not limited to, suppliers supporting Central Laboratory Services, eCOA, IRT, ancillary supplies, and imaging. All projects and activities assigned will be delivered in compliance with the applicable company Policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), International Conference on Harmonization for Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP), applicable Quality Oversight Plans (QOPs), regulatory requirements, local laws, and any department related requirements. 1. Services rendered will adhere to applicable Sponsor's SOPs, WIs, policies, local regulatory requirements, ICH-GCP, etc. 2. Implementation of Partnership Accountability key performance indicators (KPIs) and strategy, which include components such as budget negotiations, forecasting, resource management and validation of services performed. 3. Collation and data curation of partner budget(s) in coordination with procurement and operational/functional teams. 4. Creating data inputs in support of operations and commercial governance frameworks and approaches including oversight, service level expectations/adjudication and escalation pathways. Support for collating partner budget forecasting including actual services completed, remaining budget and potential scope changes. Coordinate with internal functions to address partner actuals and forecasting as necessary. **You are:** A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree (preferred Business Operations, Business Management, Finance) 1. Knowledge of Clinical Operations and related business practices, including experience with supplier/vendor contracting, budgeting, and forecasting. 2. Understanding of R&D: Knowledge of trials, nuances, and the end-to-end process of building trials 3. Data-driven approach with an ability to review, ingest and summarize data sets with a target of formulating hypotheses from data is required. 4. Negotiation skills with the ability to drive budget accountability, global alignment, efficiency, and quality. 5. Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, networking skills, a high level of organizational ability, and attention to detail. 6. The ability to translate data into information/strategies and executable action plans is required. **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 maximise 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 website to read more about the benefits of working at ICON: https://careers.iconplc.com/benefits At ICON, diversity, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative which helps us better serve our people, patients, customers, and our communities. We're proud of our diverse workforce and the work we’ve done to become a more inclusive organisation. 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 through the form below. https://careers.iconplc.com/reasonable-accommodations 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.