Senior Financial Analyst

Abbott Laboratories; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories is seeking a Financial Analyst to join their team in Singapore. This role involves critical analysis of financial data to support decision making in a leading healthcare environment. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with various stakeholders, ensuring robust financial forecasting and reporting, while maintaining compliance with internal policies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in FP&A role, preferably in medical devices/healthcare.
• Proficient in financial results interpretation and trend analysis.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Analyze revenue, costs, and expenses data for trends.
• Perform customer performance and market data analysis for revenue forecasting.
• Prepare budgets, forecasts, and assist in developing the annual plan.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Project management

Business acumen

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Accounting

Professional accounting qualification

Tools

SAP

Hyperion

Excel

PowerPoint

PowerBI

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Major Responsibilities:

• Analyze revenue, cost and expenses data for adverse trends.
• Perform analysis of customer performance and market data to enable better revenue forecasting
• Handling of month-end closing, analysis/ comments and month end reports submission. Analyze P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash flow and other finance reports.
• Prepare Budgets, forecasts and participate in developing the annual plan.
• Provide management with timely and accurate financial analysis that is critical to drive decision making and controls such as Sales Achievement Analysis Report, Sales Target setting, Usage report, DOH by product, etc.
• Provide variance analysis to track performance against budget for marketing expenses, overseas and local travelling, etc.
• Collaborate with internal business partners and other internal clients by providing recommendations on leading practices to minimize risk, improve operating efficiency or to comply with legal/financial reporting requirements.
• Assist in sales target setting and target achievement calculation
• Understand logistic flow and work with supply chain/ customer service colleagues and logistics partner to optimize demand planning and inventory management Follow up on AR/ overdues, collaborate with CFS on annual credit review, where applicable.
• Support commercial excellence initiatives from finance/ data integrity perspective.
• Provide coaching and guidance to sales, customer service team or third-party logistics provider on activities or issues that may have financial or operational implications.
• Liaise with CFS accounting staff, internal and external auditors, tax agents as and when needed
• Understand finance and quality policies, procedures and ensure compliance by internal/ external stakeholders
• Suggest and drive improvements to enhance internal controls or management information accuracy
• Support pricing request analysis
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis and assigned projects.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Accounting, professional accounting qualification required
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in FP&A role, preferably with experience in medical devices/healthcare companies.
• Strong business acumen and critical thinking skills
• Strong analytical, problem solving and project management skills.
• Proficient in interpreting financial results and business indicators to identify and analyze trends.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Confident in working with and managing multiple stakeholders and internal/ external business stakeholders
• Demonstrated leadership skills and results orientation
• Ability to take ownership and accountability for projects
• Excellent spoken and written of English and local language
• Hands-on with systems and tools, eg. SAP, Hyperion, Excel, Powerpoint, PowerBI