Finance Lead, Clinical Trials Analytics & Forecasting

AbbVie Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Finance Lead in the Center of Excellence for Clinical Trials to transform strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, and scalable forecasting capabilities across the organization.

You will translate complex data into actionable recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders, establish a trusted data foundation for forecasting, and develop new analytical capabilities as needs evolve.

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 ability to work with large, complex 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 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 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 automate processes and improve data quality, speed, and scalability.
• Develop analytics to validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and identify anomalies and forecast risks.
• Support development and 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 forecasting data with other clinical/operational systems.
• Maintain and develop dashboards that combine 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 embedded forecasters to understand business needs.

Skills

Financial analysis

Dashboards

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

AI interest

Communication

Finance systems

Education

BA/BS degree

MBA preferred

Tools

SAP

BPC

ClinPro

Power BI

Clin2Pay

Job description

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Finance Lead in the Center of Excellence for Clinical Trials to transform strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, and scalable forecasting capabilities across the organization.

You will translate complex data into actionable recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders, establish a trusted data foundation for forecasting, and develop new analytical capabilities as needs evolve.