Finance Lead - R&D

AbbVie•North Chicago, IL

2d•$96,500 - $183,500

About The Position

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. Purpose: Help enhance the analytics and technology capabilities that will transform how clinical trial investments are planned, monitored, and understood. As the Finance Lead in Center of Excellence Clinical Trials, you will be the execution engine, translating the strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, tools, and scalable forecasting capabilities used across the organization.

Requirements

BA/BS degree required; degree in Finance, Accounting, and/or Health/Life Sciences preferred.
Minimum of 7 years of progressive, relevant finance experience.
Strong analytical mindset with an ability to work comfortably with large, complex, and disparate datasets.
Experience developing or managing dashboards, reporting solutions, analytics, or financial systems.
Ability to translate business problems into practical data and technology solutions.
Strong interest in AI, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging Finance technologies.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across Finance, Clinical, Data, and Technology organizations.
Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
Comfortable working in a new and evolving environment where the role involves both solving today's problems and building tomorrow's capabilities.

Nice To Haves

MBA or Master's degree in a related field.
Pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience strongly encouraged.
Experience with SAP, BPC, ClinPro, Power BI, and/or Clin2Pay.
Experience with data visualization tools, analytics platforms, or financial planning systems.

Responsibilities

Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders
Help establish a trusted, consistent data foundation for clinical trial forecasting.
Develop new analytical capabilities as business needs evolve.
Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes and improve data quality, speed, and scalability through automation
Develop analytics to validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and identify anomalies, inconsistencies, and potential forecast risks.
Support the development and ongoing enhancement of systems and tools used for clinical trial financial forecasting.
Help design and implement the new financial system for clinical trial forecasting.
Support integration of financial forecasting data with existing clinical trial and operational systems.
Maintain and develop dashboards that bring together clinical trial financial and operational data from multiple systems.
Partner with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to connect financial and operational information.
Test and scale new AI-enabled capabilities.
Collaborate with Therapeutic Area Clinical Trial Finance and their embedded clinical trial forecasters to understand business needs and improve CoE solutions.