ABBOTT LABORATORIES Manager, Strategic Financial Planning & Analysis Salary in the United States

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Position Summary:

The Abbott Molecular division is seeking a Manager Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis to join our team. The position supports the Abbott Molecular Commercial Organization and is ideal for someone seeking strategic finance experience supporting the commercial organization. We’re looking for a highly motivated individual, who is curious, with a track record of success, and interested in growing the role and driving impact for the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Manager Strategic Financial Planning and Analysis is a key business partner to the Commercial organization, providing strategic FP&A support and enabling value-added, data-driven analysis to support timely business decisions. The role leads strategic initiatives and analytics for AMD organization, and is responsible for preparation of business case financials for go no-go portfolio decisions and other strategic investments. The role is vital in supporting the Division and Commercial Controllers in strategic commercial activities, including advising on strategic projects, partnering with the business and division headquarters finance in preparing well supported LBE review materials for commercial organization, global sales and margin analytics, and various ad-hoc projects.  The individual in this role will own the orchestration of the annual organic execution model working in close collaboration with key functional stakeholders, execution and organization of complex analytics, ensuring timely review and approval of business assumptions with key constituents.  This role will be responsible for leading consistency of global commercial deal model ensuring its timely updates, consistency of profitability metrics across regions, and advising on overall deal strategy and pro-forma income statement analysis for potential deals.  In addition, this role will play an important role in developing value-added analytics and KPIs to continue to drive the commercial business forward over the short term and long-term. The person in this role will also have supervisory responsibility in overseeing support for the Global Services, Global Marketing, and Global Commercial Excellence functions and will manage 1 direct report.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and/or Accounting or Business / Economics; MBA or CMA preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of financial experience in the areas of Financial Analysis, Cost Accounting, Auditing and/or Treasury.
• At least 2 years’ experience in a supervisory capacity.

Preferred Experience:

• High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and Power Point).
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills required.
• Prior experience with financial systems (SAP, HFM, TM1, etc.)
• Prior experience supporting Commercial organization preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to details.
• Self-starter, with a track record of developing new analytics and processes.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to work and influence at different levels of management.
• Highly organized, strong communication, management, leadership and interpersonal skills are required as regular interface with individuals in a variety of positions at multiple levels and disciplines occur both inside and outside the Division.
• Problem solving is a key activity of this position requiring the individual to work independently in a complex and highly-matrixed organization with diverse challenges.
• Most challenges encountered require clear conceptual thinking combined with experienced judgment and the ability to translate business problems/opportunities on a financial basis effectively to all levels of the organization.