Supervisor Finance

Job description

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Organizes priorities and ensures the timeliness, accuracy, and integrity of all financial information while also performing original work (working supervisor). This position is ultimately responsible for establishing, developing, and implementing appropriate processes and procedures to insure the integrity of financial reporting and planning information, while also providing efficient and effective decision support to management.

Responsibilities

Maintain controls to assure the integrity of assets and the compliance with GAAP includes ensuring compliance with Corp/Div financial polices and procedures.  Interprets financial results and recommends options.

Evaluates risks of alternatives, recommends actions and develops strategies to cope with various scenarios.

This responsibility should be performed in a way that protects the company's assets and avoids any surprises that could reasonably have been foreseen by the relevant level of financial management review.

Develop and maintain a financial organization capable of meeting Division and Corporate requirements includes mobilizing staff to work in teams. facilitating teamwork to increase quality and productivity, assumes direct responsibility for results and empowers others while maintaining high performance standards.

Ensure availability of timely and well-presented, high-quality expense, balance sheet, headcount and capital results & projections vs. appropriate benchmarks, as well as, trended information.

Coordination of Plans/Updates/LBEs and monthly actual results should be executed and interpreted for Management decision making supporting the education of Management as to the main financial assumptions and/or key business and variance drivers.
Financial expertise in evaluating and identifying the key issues and gaps in business performance and emerging business needs, deliver analyses that provides a foundation for management understanding and action.

Develop metrics and reports to identify activity level for monthly review with management to address performance.

Provide business decision support as required, including meaningful, value-added resource and expense analyses to influence and counsel management in developing business strategies.

Influence Management in the development of certain critical success factors and key assumptions.

Develop flexible, comprehensive tools to support business proposals focused on ROI and fully burdened margin profitability to support various business needs.

Including training to improve the financial understanding of the key nonfinancial management & staff.

Maintain and develop system solutions and process improvements that meet the needs of the financial planning & reporting requirements.
 

Qualifications

BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, or Economics. MBA and/or CPA/CMA is a plus, 4 years of finance experience (FP&A, Cost/General Accounting or Financial Reporting). Ability to plan, implement, and administer financial information and control systems. Knowledge of the principles, processes and standards for integrated financial analysis and reporting.

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