Finance Lead - R&D

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in North Chicago seeks a Finance Lead in the Center of Excellence for Clinical Trials to translate strategy into scalable data, dashboards, and forecasting capabilities. You will partner with Finance, Clinical, Data, and Tech to drive automation and improved decision-making across trial investments.

The role requires 7+ years in finance, strong analytics, and experience with dashboards/financial systems. Pharma background is preferred; SAP, Power BI and related tools are a plus.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Finance, Accounting or Health/Life Sciences preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive finance experience.
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to work with large, complex datasets.
• Experience developing dashboards, reporting solutions or financial systems.
• Ability to translate business problems into data and tech solutions.
• Interest in AI, automation and emerging finance technologies.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders.
• Establish a trusted 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 forecasting models and identify anomalies.
• Support development and enhancement of systems and tools for forecasting.
• Design and implement the new financial system for clinical trial forecasting.
• Integrate forecasting data with clinical trial and operational systems.
• Maintain dashboards unifying clinical trial financial and operational data.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Dashboards & reporting

AI & advanced analytics interest

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BA/BS in Finance/Accounting/Health/Life Sciences

MBA or Master’s in a related field

Tools

SAP

BPC

Power BI

ClinPro

Clin2Pay

Job 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.

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.

Purpose

Job Description
Help enhance the analytics and technology capabilities that will transform how clinical trial investments are planned, monitored, and understood. As the Finance Lead in Center of Excellence Clinical Trials, you will be the execution engine, translating the strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, tools, and scalable forecasting capabilities used across the organization.

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.

Qualifications

Required:

• 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.

Preferred

• MBA or Master's degree in a related field.
• Pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience strongly encouraged.
• Experience with SAP, BPC, ClinPro, Power BI, and/or Clin2Pay.
• Experience with data visualization tools, analytics platforms, or financial planning systems.

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 thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemay ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may bemodified in 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 toparticipate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremains in the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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