Purpose

The Finance Lead, Strategic Investment will provide financial guidance, business partnership, and support for the Strategic Capital Deployment business unit.  Scope will include support for the Strategic Capital Deployment group which is currently engaged in executing critical projects in excess of $2,800MM with a pipeline of future projects under consideration.  The position will execute a wide range of responsibilities including stewardship of financial controls, project and portfolio reporting, capital and project expense planning, financial analysis including RCE assessment. In addition, the position will assume a role in third-party alliance management for Operations directed partnerships and alliances with third parties.  This includes the full scope of contract management, governance and accounting for these agreements. This position is part of AbbVie’s Operations Finance group and is an individual contributor but will liaise with cross-functional groups (for example, project accounting.) This individual should possess strong analytical, communication, presentation, and process improvement skills.  This individual should also work well in a matrixed organization.   

Responsibilities

• Provide sound financial analysis and scenario planning for functional decision support.
• Provide coordination, consolidation, and management of Actuals, Plan, Latest Best Estimate (LBE) and Long Range Plan (LRP) cycles, including capital, expense, and headcount.
• Ensures complete, accurate and timely monthly actual results, including variance analysis and commentary. Understands monthly results and communicates issues vs. benchmark to business unit management.
• Ensure uniform and consistent recording and reporting of fiscal transactions. Maintain the integrity and control of general ledger accounts through review and analysis.
• Identifies and implements continuous process improvement opportunities for end-to-end processing of transactions and reporting.
• Develop and maintain program, portfolio and project financial health dashboarding and reporting.
• Maintains robust master data management for accounts/cost centers/etc. impacting business unit operations and results.
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support complex decision making.
• Ensure adequate financial and system controls are maintained consistent with AbbVie Corporate Financial Manual (CFM) policies and procedures as well as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

• B.S./B.A. Accounting/Finance required.
• 6 plus years relevant finance experience.
• Cost and project accounting experience required.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Comfortable presenting to large audiences and various levels of management.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Suite and SAP.
• Operations Finance experience preferred.
• CPA/MBA preferred.

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 roleat  the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on manyfactors  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. ​

Note: No amount of pay is  considered to be wages or compensation until such amount isearned,  vested,  and determinable. The amount and availability of  any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that areallocable 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 absolutediscretion,  consistent with applicable law. ​

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