Finance Lead - Clinical Trial Analytics & Forecasting

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

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL seeks a Finance Lead in the Center of Excellence for Clinical Trials to translate strategic aims into data, dashboards, insights, and scalable forecasting capabilities used across the organization.

You will drive the development of analytics, automation, and robust forecasting systems while partnering with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to align financial and operational information.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required; degree in Finance, Accounting, and/or Health/Life Sciences preferred.
• Minimum Of 7 Years Of Progressive, Relevant Finance Experience.
• Strong analytical mindset with an ability to work comfortably with large, complex, and disparate datasets.
• Experience developing or managing dashboards, reporting solutions, analytics, or financial systems.
• Ability to translate business problems into practical data and technology solutions.
• Strong interest in AI, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging Finance technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across Finance, Clinical, Data, and Technology organizations.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Comfortable working in a new and evolving environment where the role involves both solving today's problems and building tomorrow's capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders.
• Help establish a trusted, consistent data foundation for clinical trial forecasting.
• Develop new analytical capabilities as business needs evolve.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes and improve data quality, speed, and scalability through automation.
• Develop analytics to validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and identify anomalies, inconsistencies, and potential forecast risks.
• Support the development and ongoing enhancement of systems and tools used for clinical trial financial forecasting.
• Help design and implement the new financial system for clinical trial forecasting.
• Support integration of financial forecasting data with existing clinical trial and operational systems.
• Maintain and develop dashboards that bring together clinical trial financial and operational data from multiple systems.
• Partner with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to connect financial and operational information.
• Test and scale new AI-enabled capabilities.
• Collaborate with Therapeutic Area Clinical Trial Finance and their embedded clinical trial forecasters to understand business needs and improve CoE solutions.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Dashboards & analytics

AI & analytics interest

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Data translation

Education

BA/BS in Finance or Accounting

Finance/Accounting degree preferred

Health/Life Sciences background preferred

Tools

SAP

BPC

ClinPro

Power BI

Clin2Pay

Job description

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL seeks a Finance Lead in the Center of Excellence for Clinical Trials to translate strategic aims into data, dashboards, insights, and scalable forecasting capabilities used across the organization.

You will drive the development of analytics, automation, and robust forecasting systems while partnering with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to align financial and operational information.