Finance Director, Business Insights & Strategic Initiatives

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

The Opportunity

The Finance Director within the Corporate Finance Business Insights & Strategic Initiatives team leads large Business Unit, Enterprise-wide or material programs. Additionally, the Director provides rapid-response leadership through anticipative pattern recognition, analysis and insights to acute opportunities/challenges to the company. This role will provide thought-partnership to Corporate and Divisional cross-functional organizations across domestic and international affiliates at Abbott. They will be responsible for designing analysis approach and responsible for insights to historical and forecasted financials and determining decisions and actions for consideration. Activities may include – complex financial analysis and modelling, and strategic initiative project/program management.

What You'll Work On

• Advocate and lead a consistent methodology and approach for opportunity/problem framing, generating insights, decision-making and risk mitigation

• Lead Divisional or Corporate teams on longer-term decisions, alternatives, prescription, actions and contingencies; Assist various large Division controllers on critical project analytics and decisions

• Collaborate and influence Finance-functional leadership and lead projects that cross multiple stakeholders - including Procurement, Economics, Tax, Treasury, ATO – by framing material issues to the company

• Design and lead projects for long-term value creation; Determine the ‘what must happen/stay on track’; Establish and evaluate key metrics; Drive results through innovative value creation and initiatives for continuous, measurable improvements

• Design assessment of external competitive analytics

• Provide valuation models for material decisions to Abbott

• Offer thought-provoking questions to assist in Executive decision-making

• Evaluate commercial performance through advanced analytical methods
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field, or another non-related field with an MBA

• 10+ years of working in the industry in which an Abbott business competes

• Proven history of critical thinking and problem solving, providing insights and delivering tangible results

• Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate complex topics to a broad financial and non-financial audience

• Experience leading large and complex projects with team members of various levels of management, including Executive-level

• History of connecting various and disperse data to anticipate opportunities/issues and generate insights

• Proven track record of anticipative thinking and advising stakeholder(s) of evolving opportunities/issues

• History of effective written and oral communication and presenting to Executives; Clear communication skills within a team environment
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advance financial modelling and analytics on commercial performance

• Knowledge of regulations and standards affecting healthcare industries

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills interacting with domestic and international Corporate Finance including FP&A, Shared Services, CFS, Procurement, Operations among others

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $149,300.00 – $298,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.