Director, Finance Transformation

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie seeks aDirector of Finance Transformation to drive enterprise-wide programs across People & Change, Process Improvement, and Technology Enablement. You will lead cross-functional teams, governance fora, and partnerships with senior leadership to achieve measurable financial improvements.

The role requires a decade-plus of leadership in finance programs, strong communication, and the ability to manage multiple initiatives with urgency in a global organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related field.
• Minimum 12 Years Of Progressive Leadership Experience.
• Strong financial acumen and familiarity with financial systems and processes.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated cross‑functional leadership skills and ability to influence individuals significantly senior to self.
• Experience interacting independently with senior leadership on strategic, tactical and confidential issues that have both immediate and long‑term business impacts.
• Demonstrated project management ability of multiple simultaneous projects with many moving pieces.
• Ability to work independently in a fast‑paced and rapidly changing environment, adaptable to last‑minute changes in requirements or priorities.
• Advanced analytical and process diagnostic skills and the ability to get into the details, while also understanding and driving the full team to achieve results in line with the “big picture” objectives.
• Comfortable with data, metrics, and dashboards to drive decisions.
• Conflict resolution capabilities, particularly in finding common ground for win/win solutions in a matrixed environment.
• Ability to deliver feedback, recognize strong performance, and also recognize when corrective action would benefit individual and group performance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, mentor, and develop a group of program managers to create and maintain a coordinated transformation roadmap across workstreams.
• Set vision and strategy for Finance Transformation programs aligning initiatives with enterprise goals.
• Identify, evaluate, prioritize, and reduce program risks and dependencies; address regulatory and operational risks.
• Raise critical risks and solutions; establish baseline plans and track delivery progress.
• Drive results in a matrixed environment with global teams.
• Enable and maintain governance for operating model transformation including steering committees and approvals.
• Develop and monitor processes and metrics to deliver actionable reporting to leadership.
• Cultivate relationships with business leaders and cross-functional partners for engagement in the roadmap.
• Design and oversee training for new processes and frameworks; monitor adoption and readiness.

Skills

Financial acumen

Communication skills

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Analytical thinking

Data-driven decision making

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field

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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Purpose The Director, Finance Transformation supports AbbVie’s enterprise-wide finance transformation strategy in partnership with executive leadership - setting the vision and roadmap for long-term organizational change. You will play a pivotal role in identifying, leading and delivering transformation programs (spanning People & Change, Process Change and Improvement and Technology Enablement programs across the global Finance organization). You will oversee projects spanning the full transformation lifecycle - from conducting enterprise value assessments and diligence, to blueprinting workstreams that align resources, and driving the execution of Finance and cross functional initiatives. This role oversees major transformation programs, ensuring initiatives are aligned with strategic objectives and produce measurable business impact. You will be responsible for program governance and delivering best-in-class transformation management practices through leadership of cross-functional teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

Program Planning & Delivery Management

Coordinate, mentor, and develop a group of program managers to create and maintain a coordinated transformation roadmap, including scope, achievements, critical path, and interdependencies across workstreams.

Work with business leaders to set the vision and strategy for Finance Transformation programs (spanning People & Change, Process Change and Improvement and Technology Enablement programs across the global Finance organization), aligning initiatives with enterprise goals.

Support the identification, evaluation, prioritization, and reduction of program risks and dependencies, ensuring that regulatory, compliance, and operational risks are addressed in all program activities.

Raise critical risks and recommended solutions, and work with workstream leads to establish baseline plans, track progress, and apply corrective actions when delivery risks arise.

Accountable for driving results within a matrixed environment, including functional, cross-functional, and global teams.

Program Governance & Control

Enable and maintain the governance framework for the operating model transformation, including steering committees, program approvals and build workshops.

Ensure decisions, actions, and dependencies are detailed, tracked, and resolved in a timely manner.

Develop, implement, and rigorously monitor key processes and metrics to deliver actionable reporting to the Transformation Steering Committee(s), Executive Leadership Team, and other management groups.

Collaboration & Communication

Cultivate positive relationships with business leaders, key collaborators, and cross-functional partners to ensure agreement and engagement in transformation roadmap.

Develop and complete a clear communication and reporting strategy tailored to executive sponsors, business leaders, and delivery teams.

Produce high-quality program reporting (e.g., dashboards, status reports, executive packs) that provide clear insight into progress, risks, and decisions needed.

Regularly assess the performance of internal teams and external partners, taking accountability for swiftly identifying issues and driving appropriate escalation and resolution.

Change Enablement & Continuous Improvement

Design, implement, and oversee training initiatives for new processes in conjunction with internal teams (including Change & Enablement), frameworks, and tools, ensuring team members fully equipped for operational success.

Help define and monitor adoption and readiness metrics (e.g., training completion, process adherence, stabilization targets).

Coordinate pilots, phased rollouts, and post‑implementation reviews, incorporating lessons learned into future releases.

Champion innovation and continuous improvement by adopting leading practices, emerging technologies, automation, and visualization tools.

Mentor and develop talent across the organization.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related field.

Minimum 12 Years Of Progressive Leadership Experience.

Strong financial acumen and familiarity with financial systems and processes.

Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Demonstrated cross‑functional leadership skills and ability to influence individuals significantly senior to self.

Experience interacting independently with senior leadership on strategic, tactical and confidential issues that have both immediate and long‑term business impacts.

Demonstrated project management ability of multiple simultaneous projects with many moving pieces.

Ability to work independently in a fast‑paced and rapidly changing environment, adaptable to last‑minute changes in requirements or priorities.

Advanced analytical and process diagnostic skills and the ability to get into the details, while also understanding and driving the full team to achieve results in line with the “big picture” objectives.

Comfortable with data, metrics, and dashboards to drive decisions.

Conflict resolution capabilities, particularly in finding common ground for win/win solutions in a matrixed environment.

Ability to deliver feedback, recognize strong performance, and also recognize when corrective action would benefit individual and group performance.

Additional Information

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 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 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 employee 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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