Business Systems Consultant - FinOps

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. 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 Proactively seeks out strategic cloud cost optimization opportunities with senior business unit and technology leaders. Provides advice, assistance, and leadership in areas associated with cloud financial planning, procurement, provisioning, delivery, management, maintenance, and effective business use of cloud resources and services for a business area. Analyzes cloud operations and business processes through a FinOps lens; elicits, analyzes, and documents cloud financial management requirements; identifies and evaluates alternative solutions, assesses feasibility, and recommends approaches that optimize cloud spend, usage, and value. Responsibilities: Works directly with Cloud teams, engineers, and architects to understand specific cloud use cases, processes, business drivers, and cloud strategy across multiple business units; identifies and communicates resulting needs and opportunities for FinOps and cloud cost management practices. Identifies current and emerging business needs related to cloud usage, cost, and optimization; analyzes cloud spend and consumption across AbbVie to identify trends, savings opportunities, and governance practices; creates visuals to support cloud strategy; and evaluates alternative solutions using best practices and FinOps principles. Partners with Finance, Cloud, and Technology stakeholders to establish and improve cloud financial management processes, including budgeting, forecasting, chargeback/showback, cost allocation, and spend transparency. Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Develops and maintains collaborative business relationships with BMOs, BTOs, engineers, architects, Finance, and cloud end users to support cloud initiatives and ensure alignment with strategic targets. Serves as a communication bridge across stakeholder groups by sharing cloud spend outcomes, keeping leaders informed of spending issues and emerging initiatives, and helping resolve conflicts to drive informed decision-making. Accountable for the accuracy of cloud spend data and forecasts, FinOps process improvements, and the technical solution to business needs, as well as the information upon which business justification and prioritization decisions are made. Also accountable for communicating the business need and drivers to development groups to ensure the implementation phase can fulfill the business need. Qualifications Required: Bachelor’s degree with 7 years’ experience in Finance, Economic, or Information Technology; Master’s degree with 6 years’ experience; PhD with 2 years’ experience. Experience with financial forecasting, budgeting, allocation, and optimization practices in a multi-stakeholder environment. Experience with data analytics and statistical analytics. Understanding of cloud services, cloud consumption models, and the financial drivers that influence cloud spend. (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud). Ability to analyze complex data sets and translate findings into clear business recommendations, dashboards, and executive-level presentations. Exercises latitude in the approach to problem solving. Determines and develops approach and solutions to problems independently. Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills across technical and non-technical audiences. Experience with any of the following: Jira, MS Excel, Power BI and SAP R2R Preferred: FinOps certification or demonstrated experience in FinOps, cloud financial management, or cloud economics highly preferred. Cloud cost management highly preferred 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. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: #J-18808-Ljbffr AbbVie