Sr. Director, Global Assistant Controller & Finance Operations

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

The primary objective of this position is to support the Vice President, Allergan Aesthetics Controller and organization in driving strategic and high-impact initiatives, optimizing financial operations and controls, and enabling alignment cross-functionally for all financial planning and actuals reporting deliverables for the Allergan Aesthetics Business Unit.  Specifically, this position is responsible for all consolidated financial planning and reporting, internal controls, and leadership of finance operations teams such as Pricing, Procure to Pay Concierge, Finance Systems, Finance Transformation, and Sales & Operations Planning.

Core Responsibilities

1. Financial Reporting and Internal Controls :
   • Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual close / reporting processes for  Allergan Aesthetics globally while ensuring accurate and timely reporting of monthly financial results in accordance with GAAP and reporting requirements from Global and Corporate requirements.
   • Develop effective reporting, monitor performance, and support development of contingency plans as necessary to deliver results with clear and concise commentary.
   • Work closely with the external and internal audit teams to coordinate all US and pricing audit cycles effectively and implementing any audit recommendations according to due dates as applicable.
   • Drive enhancements of internal controls in US, strengthen US internal control environment and ensure financial results are recorded in compliance with AbbVie financial policies, SOX and GAAP.
   • Lead monthly Governance reviews, identifying key topics to highlight to the Vice President, Commercial Controller and the Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller.
2. Financial Planning and Analysis :
   • Proactively lead the planning processes [Plan, LBE and LRP] globally ensuring accurate and timely integration of sales forecasts, pricing, and investment resourcing; ensuring senior management input to meet overall Business Unit / Global / Corporate deadlines and deliverables.
   • Coordinate across the Business Unit timelines, requirements, targets, financial presentations, and financial results for all planning requirements. 
   • Ensure financial planning and reporting deliverables are accurate, clear and concise for Executive level review and approval.
   • Provide analyses for ad hoc or other special project business presentations that lend insight into key business drivers, enabling senior management to adapt more appropriate strategy to meet both short and long-term objectives.
   • Lead Intangible Asset valuation analytics, leveraging partnerships with Commercial and R&D business leaders to provide insights on Brand dynamics, key decision points, and sensitivities on forecast assumptions.
   • Lead Investor Relations reporting quarterly for the Allergan Aesthetic business, shaping the narrative for external reporting.
3. Finance Operations:
   • Lead US Aesthetics Pricing, partnering with the US Aesthetics business to implement strategic pricing strategies. Includes close cooperation with Tx on mitigation of Best Price impacts on Botox Tx.
   • Monitor and enhance appropriate controls to ensure accuracy, completeness of pricing operations, in cooperation with the different business teams.
   • Lead  US Aesthetics Concierge Procure-to-Pay organization.
   • Lead Global Aesthetics Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) organization.
   • Represent the Aesthetics organization for Finance Transformation, leading the efforts for the global organization, interfacing between Areas and the Corporate team. Ensure the design and enhancement of current and future systems and tools meet the needs of the organization. Drive change management for  Aesthetics.
   • Communicate strategic vision, assess organization design, establish and monitor Key Performance Indicators, and drive decision making for deliverables.
   • Demonstrate strategic business partnership by collaborating cross-functionally with leadership and teams for Allergan Aesthetics Brand Teams, Customer Service, Operations (Manufacturing) and Supply Chain, BTS, and Enterprise Finance Transformation to ensure alignment and effective execution on goals.
4. Leadership:
   • Build an effective network within Aesthetics to facilitate navigation and alignment throughout the complex matrix environment.
   • Effectively lead and develop a team of ~30 professionals with 8 direct reports.
   • Identify, nurture and develop key talent with an eye towards future leadership roles within various areas of AbbVie’s Aesthetics and Therapeutics organizations.
   • Identify areas for future process improvements as part of a key member of the Aesthetics Finance leadership team.

Reports To:

• Vice President, Controller, Allergan Aesthetics
• Effectively manage matrix relationships with Global/Corporate Finance, Internal/External Audit, Therapeutics Finance

Qualifications

• 15+ years progressive accounting or finance experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Excellent and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Motivation to grow in a dynamic environment and proven ability to have an impact  on the organization at senior leadership level.
• Experience in leading and motivating a team in a dynamic business environment to successfully achieve results and on-time deliverables.
• Experience leading the finance organization of a business unit, and experience demonstrating enterprise leadership.
• Pharma or Consumer Goods Commercial Finance experience and knowledge of the financial planning process.
• Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis, and interpretation of related data.
• Experience supporting senior operating management, with executive presence and ability to challenge the status quo while building relationships.
• Experience working independently as well as team environments and integrating activities across multiple functions.

Preferred:

• MBA in Accounting or Finance and / or CPA
• Solid understanding of automated accounting/financial systems such as SAC, desktop productivity and mainframe accounting applications
• Deep understanding of pharma and medical devices pricing dynamics

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 long-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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