Finance Manager, FP&A HQ - Abbott Point of Care at Abbott Laboratories

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Finance Manager, HQ FP&A - Abbott Point of Care

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

Abbott Point of Care is a global leader in providing critical medical diagnostic and informatics products for rapid blood analysis that are intuitive, reliable, and cost-effective. Our i-STAT System is an advanced, portable diagnostic tool that provides real-time, lab-quality results within minutes to accelerate patient-care decision-making as well as optimize resource utilization for our customers and the patients that they serve. The i-STAT System has the industry’s most comprehensive menu of tests in a single, with-patient platform, including tests for respiratory, metabolic, coagulation, hematology, glucose, and cardiac function. By delivering lab-quality results in minutes, on just a few drops of blood, our i-STAT System fosters a collaborative, patient-centered environment while driving improved operational performance.

Abbott Point of Care headquarters located in Princeton, NJ has a new opening for a Finance Manager, HQ FP&A. The Finance Manager, HQ FP&A, plays a key role in providing critical financial consolidation and analysis to support the Division's decision-making process. This position supports all aspects of financial planning and consolidation, P&L review, and other complex financial analyses required to keep the profitable and sustained growth of the business.

The Finance Manager, HQ FP&A, provides leadership oversight, coordination, and planning, to execute financial planning processes and ensure the timeliness, accuracy, and integrity of financial information while performing original work related to Division and Corporate templates/schedules. This role is also responsible for preparing consolidated analytics to enable informed decision-making by executive staff and quality presentation of financial performance summaries shared with senior leaders across the Division and Corporation.

What You’ll Work On

• Lead the quarterly FP&A planning, consolidation, and forecasting process by ensuring timely review and approval of business assumptions with key constituents to build detailed projection models and translate them into P&L expectations.

• Support the annual preparation of the Division Long Range Plan.

• Support monthly and quarterly financial integration with the Division Integrated Business Planning process, including KPI reporting requirements.

• Provide financial support to the Global Strategic Marketing and Headquarters functions.

• Manage month-end reporting activities to ensure availability of timely, complete, analyzed, and well-presented quality P&L, cash flow, and sales for submission to Management and Corporate Finance.

• Shared responsibility for the financial reporting process for the Division, leveraging the shared service resources within the Corporate Financial Services organization.

• Support financial modeling, scenario analysis, and business insights to support the management decision process.

• Prepare financial reports (such as Plans and Rolling LBEs) that meet the timing and quality of presentation requirements, facilitating management review and decision making while ensuring data integrity and compliance with GAAP, Abbott financial policies and procedures, and Abbott's Code of Conduct.

• Build analytical models that analyze and project the financial impact of business initiatives across the Point of Care Division.

• Establish and maintain an effective, efficient, and well-documented consolidation and financial planning process for the Division and operational functions being supported, including coordination of a planning calendar with key dates and deliverables. This includes to ongoing evaluation of options to streamline, automate and/ or outsource financial consolidation processes.

• In conjunction with the Division Information Systems groups, propose and support the implementation and maintenance of strategic and tactical financial systems development and support plans that ensure a consistent approach to financial data management and processing.

• Provide ongoing FP&A training to the financial organization to ensure that it can meet Division and Corporate requirements.

• This position has two indirect reports.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree (such as Master's or MBA) is desired.

• Position requires 6-8 years of diverse financial experience, including financial planning, reporting and analysis, general accounting, cost accounting, and internal control.

Preferred Qualifications-

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization professionally. Position involves frequent interface with Directors, Controllers, and Corporate Finance team.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong knowledge of accounting and finance principles with the ability to apply this knowledge to support business needs.

• Ability to prioritize; strong organizational and planning skills; strong intellectual curiosity.

• Ability and aptitude to provide solutions and contingency plans through the comprehensive review of alternatives.

• Ability to present material to Executive-level management is a plus.

• A proven history of partnering with various stakeholders to produce and deliver well-synthesized analyses, narratives, and recommendations to diverse audiences, including senior management.

• Must thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic company environment.

• Strong financial modeling skills and business acumen, able to drive projects from start to finish.

* 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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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 $95,000.00 – $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.