Finance Manager at Abbott Laboratories

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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 .
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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

This position is an onsite opportunity in the Abbott Diabetes Care Division. We are helping people with Diabetes lead healthier, happier lives.   As a global leader in diabetes care, Abbott is constantly working to deliver the highest quality products and unwavering support to our customers.  Consistent and accurate glucose monitoring is the foundation of any diabetes management plan, so we’re committed to continuous improvement in the way patients and professionals measure, track and analyze glucose levels.

As Finance Manager, you will provide support and partnership for Global Finance, Commercial and Strategic Marketing teams with particular focus on margin and expense forecasting for Plan, rLBE, OEM processes. Coordinates with Division HQ to meet requirements and deadlines for the team.  Management & enhancement of analytics to support understanding of submissions. The position requires strong people management, analytical, prioritization, and presentation skills as well as focus on process & identifying areas of efficiency. This is an onsite opportunity in Alameda, CA.

What You'll Do

• Strengthen processes to help develop global expense and margin forecasts for Plan, rLBE, OEM & RCEs
• Ensures completeness and accuracy of financial submissions.
• Interpret financial results & recommend options based upon analysis of data & information.
• Contributes to the strategic planning process by partnering and providing financial support to non-financial stakeholders.
• Identify meaningful analytics including trend analyses, which can be gleaned from rLBE submissions; presentation of these findings to Global Commercial senior leadership to aid strategic decision making and agree upon storyline of the submission
• Preparation of LBE deck, working with stakeholders to prepare presentation to senior management.  Focus on simplifying submissions to make slides concise & executive-ready
• Management and development of two members of staff
• Operates with a significant amount of autonomy, focuses on delegation to staff to aid their development, and proactively navigates the division network to accomplish goals/tasks
  Ad hoc requests from management (Division & Corporate functions including Tax, Treasury, Audit, Investor Relations etc.)
• Ensure adherence to Abbott accounting policies and procedures (CFMs) and Sarbanes Oxley requirements.

Education and Experience You'll Bring
Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economic 
• Minimum 8 years Finance and supervisory experience (FP&A, Cost/General Accounting and Financial Reporting)
• Ability to plan, implement and administer financial information and control systems
• Knowledge of the principles, processes and standards for integrated financial analysis and reporting

Preferred

• BA, CPA/CMA preferred

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

CRM

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Vascular

Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

Neuromodulation

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum.

Structural Heart

Structural Heart Business Mission:  why we exist

Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

EP

In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

HF

In Abbott’s Heart Failure (HF) business, we’re developing solutions to diagnose, monitor and manage heart failure, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

Diagnostics

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnostics and the analysis of DNA, RNA, and proteins at the molecular level.

Our Point of Care diagnostic portfolio spans key heath and therapeutic areas, including infections disease, cardiometabolic, informatics and toxicology.

Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

Our rapid diagnostics solutions are helping address some of the world’s greatest healthcare challenges.

Nutrition

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 – $218,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.