Finance Director, Specialty Products

Company Description

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Job Description

Position Overview

The primary objective of this position is to provide financial leadership, oversight, and business support for the following business units within US Specialty: Team One (Endo-Metabolics), Team ID (HCV and Anti-Infectives) and Women's Health with combined revenues over $2.8B and SG&A expenditures of over $250MM. This role will manage a team of 6 to help prepare and present key financial planning, forecasting, and reporting documents to the VP of the Specialty business units as well as the VP/SVP of US Specialty. The individual must develop and maintain a strong knowledge of the business and ensure financial commitments are met through close interactions with all levels of Finance and business leadership.

Core Responsibilities

Financial Reporting and Internal Control:

• Lead the strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis to support key decision making.
• Oversee general ledger and related month-end close activities to ensure accuracy and predictability of results, and to maintain compliance with AbbVie financial policies and control framework.
• Provide finance reporting to various management teams by contributing to the development of projects and activities that align with business and financial objectives.
• Develop effective reporting, monitor performance and support development of contingency plans as necessary to deliver results with clear and concise commentary.
• Partner with the external and internal audit teams to complete all audit cycles effectively and implement any audit recommendations according to due dates as applicable.
• Drive to continue to enhance internal controls and ensure financial results are recorded in compliance with AbbVie financial policies, SOX and GAAP.

Financial Planning and Analysis:

• Proactively lead the planning processes [Plan, UPD, LBE and LRP] ensuring accurate and timely integration of sales forecast, pricing and investment resourcing, ensuring senior management input to meet overall Division / Global / Corporate deadlines and deliverables.
• Champion, value and measure cost savings and resource optimization programs.
• Coordinate across the division timelines, requirements, targets, financial presentations, and financial results for all Corporate planning requirements.
• Ensure financial planning and reporting deliverables are accurate, clear and concise for Executive level review and approval.

Strategic Business Partnership:

• Be a strategic partner with business leaders to optimize decision making, meet financial commitments, ensure resources are appropriately deployed, and prepare deliverables that are Executive management ready.
• Support various Finance process/system improvement efforts and instill a culture of continuous improvement.
• Decision Support / Special Projects -- Provide analyses for ad hoc or other business presentations that lend insight into key business drivers enabling senior management to adapt more appropriate tactics / strategy to meet both short- and long-term objectives.

People Leadership and Development:

• Lead a team of 6 highly motivated and engaged finance professionals (4 direct reports) by setting & aligning goals/priorities, motivating, and empowering the team to deliver exceptional results.

Reports To:

Sr Director, US Specialty Controller

Effectively manage matrix relationships with US/Global/Corporate Finance, FSS, PSM, Internal/External Audit, US Therapeutics Leadership

Qualifications

Required:

• 10+ years progressive accounting or finance experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in leading and motivating a team in a dynamic business environment to successfully achieve results / deliverables
• Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis, and interpretation of related data
• Experience supporting senior operating management
• Experience working independently as well as team environments and integrating activities across multiple functions / divisions

Preferred:

• MBA in Accounting or Finance and / or CPA
• US Commercial experience and knowledge of the financial planning process
• Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such as SAP, BPC, and desktop productivity applications

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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