Finance Lead

Company Description

About AbbVie

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  . Follow @abbvie on  LinkedIn,   Facebook ,  Instagram ,  X and  YouTube.

Job Description

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.

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.

Qualifications

Required:

• 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.

Preferred:

• 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.

Additional Information

​Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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