Director, Finance - Leveraged Services

Abbott • Maple Grove, MN

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About The Position

The Director, Finance provides strategic finance leadership for Abbott’s Medical Devices Leveraged Services organization, including Clinical Operations, Regulatory, and other shared service functions. The role partners with senior leadership to drive financial performance, optimize resources, plan capacity, and support long-range strategic decisions. It leads financial planning activities, identifies risks and opportunities, and supports the achievement of short- and long-term business objectives.

The position serves as the primary finance business partner to functional leadership and manages and develops a finance team. It promotes financial transparency and accountability across a shared-services funding model while evaluating productivity, efficiency, and cost optimization in balance with quality, compliance, and service-level objectives. The role also supports cross-functional initiatives and organizational transformation, ensures compliance with financial policies and controls, and leads improvements to financial processes, reporting, and business insight generation.

The position is based at one of the listed United States locations: Maple Grove, Minnesota; Santa Clara, California; or Sylmar, California. Travel is 20% of the time. The listed significant work activity is keyboard use for at least 50% of the workday.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressive finance and FP&A experience, including leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior executives and influencing strategic business decisions.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, resource planning, and business analytics capabilities.
• Experience managing and developing talent.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting shared services, Clinical Operations, Regulatory, R&D, healthcare, medical device, or regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial planning, forecasting, month-end reporting, annual operating plan development, and long-range planning for the Leveraged Services organization.
• Serve as the primary finance business partner to functional leadership, advising on resource allocation, workforce planning, investments, and organizational priorities.
• Manage and develop finance professionals responsible for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial analysis.
• Drive financial transparency and accountability across the shared-services funding model, including allocation methodologies, demand planning, and recovery processes.
• Evaluate productivity, efficiency, and cost optimization opportunities while balancing quality, compliance, and service-level objectives.
• Identify financial risks and opportunities and recommend actions to support executive decision making.
• Develop executive-level analyses and presentations communicating key trends, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Partner with Finance, Clinical, R&D, Commercial, HR, Regulatory, and Operations leadership on strategic initiatives and organizational transformation.
• Ensure compliance with company financial policies, governance requirements, and internal controls.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance financial processes, reporting capabilities, and business insight generation.

Benefits

• Employees may qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor’s degree.
• Career development opportunities with an international company.
• Health and wellness benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director