Global Aesthetics Senior Finance Manager

AbbVie; Irvine; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global biopharmaceutical company seeks a qualified candidate to provide financial leadership for planning processes within their organization. The role involves leading financial analysis, supporting executive management, and ensuring accuracy in planning. Ideal candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, with substantial experience in finance/accounting and strong problem-solving skills. The position offers competitive benefits and a dynamic work environment in Irvine, Scotland.

Benefits

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) eligibility

Short-term incentive programs

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of progressive accounting or finance experience required.
• Ability to evaluate business problems and opportunities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Planning/Actual process for accurate integration.
• Prepare and present accurate Planning information to executives.
• Coach staff to ensure optimal support for the business.

Skills

Problem solving

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance

MBA in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Longview

BPC

Job description

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose

The primary objective of this position is to provide financial leadership for the Month end, Plan, LBE, LRP planning and DSO / Balance Sheet processes. The position will be responsible for providing financial analysis, recommendations and decision‑making support. This position is responsible for developing and implementing processes and procedures to facilitate accurate and timely consolidations of planning processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Planning/Actual process that ensures an accurate and timely integration of forecasting/sales, pricing, product marketing, market research and senior financial management level inputs to meet overall division/corporate calendar deadlines and quality submission.
• The position has responsibility for preparing and presenting accurate and complete Planning information to the Executive Staff and Corporate Planning Groups.
• Provide recommendations to Sr. Management on planning key assumptions and analysis to explain variances as well as business trends. This position will require a large amount of interface across senior management within the group and multiple functions including areas/affiliates.
• Play a key role in SAC go live (including UAT) and ensure all reports / dashboards are completely and accurately transferred over from Longview to SAC.
• Staff Development – responsible for delegating to and coaching staff to ensure an optimal level of support for the businesses supported. Additionally, will provide coaching and career development opportunities to sustain a high performing staff.
• Additionally, the position will interface with multiple functions within and outside the Business Unit such as Operations, R&D, Corporate Planning and other Corporate Groups. Individual is expected to successfully perform responsibilities with a high degree of self‑motivation and autonomy.
• Acts as a trusted advisor who effectively challenges business partners on their performance and suggests possible solutions to performance issues.
• Proactively leads Finance Transformation / Lighthouse initiatives to deliver on company‑wide objectives to achieve simplification and efficiency while improving quality of deliverables.

Qualifications

• Requires 7‑10 years progressive accounting or finance experience.
• Ability and desire to proactively search out and evaluate business problems and opportunities.
• Capability to direct efforts to achieve answers and results.
• Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis and interpretation of related data.
• Demonstrated problem solving and analysis within a broad framework of AbbVie’s financial policies (CFMs), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Preferred: MBA in Accounting or Finance and/or CPA/CMA.
• Preferred: Multi‑division experience and knowledge of the financial planning systems (Longview and BPC) and process.

Additional Information

• 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.

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 benefit that is allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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