Director, US Neuroscience FP&A

Core Responsibilities

• Financial Reporting and Internal Control:
• Lead the monthly, quarterly and annual close / reporting processes within Neuroscience BU, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of monthly financial results in accordance with GAAP and reporting requirements from US DHQ.
• Develop/Improve effective reporting to monitor performance, ensure proper commentary and support leadership on the development of contingency plans as necessary to deliver results. Development the right dashboards to automatize the month end analysis.
• Support the US Finance Neuroscience Controller to ensure the right level of internal and Sox controls, with the right documentation, including contingencies consideration, as well as ensuring compliance with AbbVie financial policies.
• Financial Planning and Analysis:
• Proactively lead the planning processes [Plan, LBE and LRP] ensuring accurate and timely integration of sales forecast, pricing and investment resourcing, ensuring senior management input to meet overall DHQ deadlines and deliverables.
• Carefully coordinate, across the different brands, the timelines, requirements, targets and financial presentations, as per requirements.
• Support the US Finance Neuroscience Controller on the BU story telling. And ensure financial planning and reporting deliverables are accurate, clear and concise for Executive level review and approval.
• Coordination of Neuroscience Pipeline financial planning:
• Lead the Neuroscience Pipeline financial planning cycles [Plan and LRP] ensuring accurate and timely integration of sales forecast (from PCS team), pricing and investment resourcing, ensuring senior management input to meet overall DHQ deadlines and deliverables.
• Ensure the right level of resourcing for the pipeline assets, to anticipate a successful launch of the new assets.
• Strategic Business Partnership:
• Lead the interactions with US DHQ team, as well as lead the FP&A process within the US Neuroscience team.
• Be a strategic partner to US Neuroscience Commercial VP and Director BU Capabilities, providing clear support in terms of budget management.
• Provide analyses for ad hoc or other business presentations that lend insight into key business drivers enabling senior management to adapt more appropriate tactics / strategy to meet both short and long term objectives.
• Lead special projects in alignment with the US BU Finance Controller.
• Team Leader: Effectively lead and develop the US Neuroscience Finance Consolidation and PCS FP&A team.

Qualifications

• 10 years minimum finance experience
• Bachelors Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in leading and motivating a team in a dynamic business environment to successfully achieve results and on-time deliverables
• 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 / divisions