Finance Manager, US Therapeutics

Allergan; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a senior finance leader to drive the Global Latest Best Estimates (LBE) planning process for the Commercial Controllership Organization. You will provide financial analysis, recommendations, and decision support to ensure accurate consolidations.

You will lead global planning, deliver executive-ready summaries, and partner across functions to align efforts and improve processes. Strong communication, leadership, and system skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Requires degree in accounting or finance with progressive accounting/finance experience.
• MBA/CPA preferred for seniority and leadership.
• Strong understanding of AbbVie financial planning processes and systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead global commercial financial planning and forecasting processes with timely inputs.
• Consolidate planning materials and prepare executive-ready summaries for leadership.
• Guide cross-functional units through planning cycles and enforce timelines and assumptions.
• Partner with finance, legal, R&D, operations and global teams to align planning efforts.
• Perform system tie-outs to ensure data integrity across outputs.
• Maintain planning templates, schedules and supporting documentation.
• Analyze performance vs plan and identify variances and trends.
• Prepare clear planning materials and presentations for leadership review.
• Coach and develop finance team members and foster collaboration.

Skills

Financial planning

Communication skills

Data analysis

Problem solving

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Time management

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

MBA or CPA preferred

Tools

SAP

BPC

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

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

The primary objective of this position is to provide financial leadership for the Global Latest Best Estimates (LBE) planning process for Commercial Controllership Organization. The position will be responsible for providing financial analysis, recommendations, and decision-making support. This position is responsible for supporting development and implementation of processes and procedures to facilitate accurate and timely consolidations of LBEs.

Responsibilities

• Lead global commercial financial planning and forecasting processes, ensuring timely and accurate business inputs.


• Consolidate planning materials and deliver executive-ready financial summaries for senior stakeholders.


• Guide business units through planning cycles, including timelines, guidance, assumption validation, and result consolidation.


• Partner cross-functionally with finance, corporate, legal, R&D, operations, and global teams to align planning efforts.


• Perform financial system tie-outs to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across planning outputs.


• Maintain and improve planning templates, schedules, mock books, and supporting financial documentation.


• Analyze performance against plan, prior forecasts, prior year, and other benchmarks to identify trends and variances.


• Highlight key risks, opportunities, and business drivers to support informed management decision-making.


• Prepare clear, actionable planning materials and presentations for leadership review.


• Manage, coach, and develop finance team members while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years progressive accounting or finance experience


• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required,
  
  
  
  • MBA or CPA preferred
  
  
  
  


• Strong understanding of AbbVie financial planning processes


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills


• Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such SAP and BPC. Skillful with Power BI or other data visualization tools.


• Extremely proficient in Microsoft Office, primarily Excel and PowerPoint


• Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis, and interpretation of related data


• Experience working independently as well as team environments and integrating activities across multiple functions / divisions


• Ability to meet tight deadlines while balancing competing priorities


• Ability to work well in a team environment and build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders

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 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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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