Associate Director, Finance Future Fit

AbbVie Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Long-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a senior Finance Transformation leader in the North Chicago, IL area to drive the Finance Future Fit program. You will lead transformative initiatives across processes, tools, partnerships, and people experience, working with Commercial Finance and Corporate to align on roadmaps.

The role requires 8+ years in finance, strong project management, leadership, and communication skills, and a proven ability to manage change in a matrix environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
• CPA and/or MBA is preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive finance related experience.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Strong leadership and ownership mindset.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Self-starter with initiative and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to generate ideas and drive innovation to reality.

Responsibilities

• Lead Commercial Finance Transformation initiatives across Process, Tools, Partnerships and People Experience.
• Identify business needs, collaborate on action plans and drive change management at all levels.
• Ensure timely execution of project plans for finance capability initiatives.
• Execute system strategy with data governance and data visualization tools.
• Coordinate communications and change management for Finance Transformation programs.
• Support culture clubs to promote continuous improvement.
• Lead meetings and governance activities including quarterly Town Hall and annual events.
• Oversee governance of US and international finance data and SharePoint.

Skills

Finance transformation

Project management

Leadership

Communication

Influencing

Problem-solving

Initiative

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA

MBA

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, XandYouTube.

Job Description

The primary objective of this position is to drive finance transformation by enhancing finance capabilities, improving culture, and reinforcing team spirit across the Commercial Finance organization. This role is responsible for leading the Finance Future Fit (FFF) and workstreams to ensure execution of the agreed initiatives.

Responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Leading the Commercial Finance Transformation initiatives under the enterprise-wide themes of Process, Tools, Business Partnership, and People Experience. This includes but is not limited to identifying business needs, collaborating on action plans and driving change management across all levels of the organization.

• Ensure execution of agreed project plans and timelines for all finance capability initiatives.
• Execute the system strategy which includes establishing overall data structure/governance as well as implementing data visualization tools and collaboration tools.
• Act as key liaison between Commercial Finance and Corporate to drive enterprise-wide Finance Transformation roadmap initiatives and by ensuring alignment with other FFF initiatives.
• Coordinating communications and change management for Finance Transformation program for Commercial Finance including development and synchronization of enterprise-wide standard operation procedures
• Actively support the culture club workstreams (Professional Development, Operational Excellence, Inclusive Connections, and Social) to amplify culture and promote continuous improve.
• Coordinate critical meetings such as the quarterly Finance Exchange Town Hall, the annual recognition event, and the annual offsite leadership meeting.
• Ensure U.S. Tx finance SharePoint is developed and maintained
• Finance Capital Plan (US Tx, INT’L Tx and AA)
• The Crisis Management, Cyberattack CAT
• Supports VP with ad hoc requests/matters
• Manage and direct a team focused on tools and technology solutions with an aim for process agility, unification, and simplification

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
  • CPA and/or MBA preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive finance related experience.
• Effective at delivering results in a highly matrix environment.
• Strong understanding of AbbVie financial planning processes and systems.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong leadership skills with a keen sense of ownership and advanced team building skills.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of initiative.
• Ability to generate ideas, challenge the status quo, solve problems, and manage innovation to reality.

Additional Information

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

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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