Associate Director, Global FP&A (COE)

AbbVie; Illinois; On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

The role requires 12+ years in FP&A with strong communication skills and a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders in a global environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 12+ years in FP&A, commercial finance, or financial controllership with leadership experience.
• Strong planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to lead and develop teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Global FP&A COE within Commercial Controllership and manage a team of four.
• Standardize planning practices, templates, and reporting across global commercial finance.
• Drive financial insight through analyses of net sales, SG&A, and related metrics; oversee governance of planning data.
• Lead quarterly FP&A forums and finance learning initiatives; strengthen onboarding with documentation and training on FP&A topics.

Skills

Team leadership

FP&A

Budgeting & forecasting

Management reporting

Stakeholder management

Communication

Process improvement

Automation

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance

MBA / CPA / CMA (preferred)

Tools

BPC

Power Apps

Power Automate

SharePoint

Wdesk

Job description

Company Description

About AbbVie

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

The Associate Director will lead the Global Financial Planning & Analysis Center of Excellence (FP&A COE) within Commercial Controllership, managing a team of four employees. The role advances consistent standards, processes, tools, and finance capabilities that enable timely, informed decisions across global commercial finance.

Responsibilities

Lead the COE, team, and operating model

• Lead, coach, and develop four employees while setting priorities across the COE’s four pillars.
• Define preparation, review, approval, and decision responsibilities across Commercial Controllership and the LBE and Plan/LRP teams.
• Align priorities and resolve issues with planning, forecasting, SG&A, business-unit FP&A, shared services, procurement, and HR partners.

Standardize practices and advance technology

• Develop and drive adoption of standard procedures, planning guidance, reporting templates, mock books, and presentation standards.
• Oversee SG&A, headcount, net sales, and related reporting guidance and deliverables across all planning cycles while establishing consistent methodologies across global commercial.
• Lead automation and AI initiatives using tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and Wdesk.
• Maintain COE platforms and tools and promote adoption across the finance community.

Drive financial insight and business support

• Oversee COE deliverables for net sales, weekly trends, sales incentives, SG&A, distribution margin, and post-execution reclassifications.
• Ensure quality and accuracy of reconciliations, royalty true-ups, standard cost reconciliations, and planning data verification.
• Lead technical analyses, including exchange adjustments and industry fee calculations, with relevant finance partners.

Build the team and broader finance capability

• Lead quarterly FP&A forums and finance learning and development programs.
• Strengthen onboarding through consistent documentation and training on key FP&A topics.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, commercial finance, or financial controllership, including team leadership.
• Strong financial planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop teams in a dynamic environment.
• Success standardizing finance processes across business units, regions, or functions.
• Experience delivering measurable process improvement or automation results.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, clarify accountability, and manage competing priorities.
• Ability to coach finance professionals and communicate complex financial information clearly.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CPA, CMA, or an equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience building or leading a finance COE or shared-services capability.
• Familiarity with BPC, Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint, or Wdesk.
• Experience applying AI or automation to financial reporting, reconciliation, or analysis.
• Experience supporting global commercial finance teams through organizational or technology change.

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/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• 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 employer 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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What AbbVie Has to Offer

Our work can and does have a tangible, lasting impact on millions of people. But it's not just the results that matter. How we achieve them matters, too. Leading with purpose, we work to build a more sustainable future for generations to come. We do that by putting our expertise, resources and talent to work to make a real difference for patients, communities and our world.