Senior Finance Manager

Abbott • Los Angeles, CA

69d

About The Position

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. JOB DESCRIPTION: The Opportunity A healthy heart is essential to good health. That's why we're committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats. Our location in Sylmar, CA currently has an opportunity for a Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis. This position is responsible for leading the Cardiac Rhythm Management (CRM) financial organic execution planning process and in addition will work with the Marketing and R&D teams on new product launches to ensure their global success. Gaining cross-functional alignment with all functions is an essential responsibility of this role so advanced presentation skills, personally and in writing, is key. The role will be reporting to the DVP Controller, Finance CRM and will be on the finance leadership team of the CRM business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or related field
• 10+ years of experience performing financial and variance analysis, forecasting, planning, and financial modeling
• Seasoned judgment acquired through organizational experience in financial planning and analysis and working with senior leadership; experience delivering financial information that adds value to management's decision-making process
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication and management skills (persuasiveness and negotiation) are key.
• Highly organized individual capable of interfacing with individuals in a variety of senior management positions/levels
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and engage others to accomplish projects in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization
• Previous experience working at an advanced level with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and financial planning applications
• Minimal travel required

Responsibilities

• Lead the Long Range OEM (Organic Execution Model) Plan process by working directly with all functions, senior leaders, DVP Controller and SVP of CRM to deliver the forecast annually
• Produce high impact business analyses and decision support to optimize new product launches including cost analysis on new products and geographic execution to pre-approved plans
• Provide leadership with performance assessments, trend analyses and proposals for improvements
• Partner with all functions teams to assess, prioritize and communicate key division strategic initiatives as well as drive margin improvement and simplification projects
• Exercise sound judgment in planning, organizing and performing work
• Prepare financial modeling and ad hoc analysis across the income statement
• Guarantee the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of financial information and reporting
• Assurance internal control and compliance with local and Abbott’s regulations/standards, as well as audit results/findings are timely solved, as they arise

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees