Senior Manager, Finance

About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on Twitter , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube and LinkedIn .

Description

The Manager, Legal FP&A (Grade 19) is responsible for overseeing the accounting, reporting and financial planning and analysis activities for the legal function. This role supports global expenses of $400MM+ and 300 headcount and includes approximately $300MM in legal fees. This role manages the Legal Accounts Payable function and ensures all payments and processes are accurate and optimized. This role manages 4 Finance employees (2 direct Managers and 2 indirect)

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead the planning process for of all planning cycles: Plan, LRP and LBE's that reflect meaningful commentary and analysis and responsible for executive summaries and presentations to multiple VPs
• Responsible for ensuring monthly financial results are completed accurately and timely and executive summaries with insightful commentary are prepared and delivered to the function's leadership team
• Lead financial aspects of key functional projects, systems initiatives and integration activities to ensure finance requirements are implemented appropriately and process efficiencies are realized
• Responsible for ensuring the legal forecasting processes are completed efficiently and accurately, providing insights and analysis to respective VPs
• Provides decision support and financial counsel for functional VP's delivering on spend management, acquisition synergies and other business initiatives
• Responsible for the Legal invoice payment processes and ensuring invoices are paid timely and appropriately, developing key KPIs to monitor aging and timing of payments are appropriate
• Manage and lead an organization of 4 financial professionals (2 managers, 1 Financial Analyst and 1 Accounting Technician)
• Maintain controls to assure the integrity of assets and compliance with GAAP and corporate financial policies and procedures

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required. CPA or MBA desirable
• 8-10+ years progressive accounting or finance experience
• 3+ years' experience managing a staff
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to solve business problems through proactive identification of issues and to provide solutions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently support multiple VPs within function
• Experience in driving process improvements to finance and operational processes and abilities to increase capabilities and results

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
M
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.