
Associate Director, Global Process Lead for OPS Finance
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Financial Planning – Support financial tools used in the planning processes [Plan, UPD, LBE and LRP] ensuring accurate and timely integration of forecast, costing and variance analysis, ensuring senior management input to meet overall division/corporate calendar deadlines
- Ensure standardized global process deliverables are documented, aligned and concise for Executive level review and approval
- Work closely with business partners to develop standardized processes that are accurately incorporate site dynamics
- Be a strategic tool for target functions and provide clear and concise output deliverables that can be reviewed with Executive management
- Work closely with business partners to ensure adequate and appropriate resourcing levels to successfully execute deliverables
- Decision Support/Special Projects -- Provide analyses for ad hoc or other business presentations that lend insight into key business drivers enabling operating management to adapt more appropriate tactics/strategy
- Financial statement accuracy – Ensure compliance and governance of processes related to monthly reporting associated with functional strategic projects
- Staff Development – Potentially responsible for delegating to and coaching a staff of employees to ensure an optimal level of support to the business and provide coaching and career development opportunities to sustain a high performing staff
- Individual is expected to successfully perform all responsibilities with a high degree of self-motivation and autonomy
- Requires 7-10 years progressive accounting or finance experience.
- This position requires an individual with the ability and desire to proactively search out and evaluate business problems and opportunities
- Capability to direct efforts to achieve answers and results
- Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis and interpretation of related data
- Demonstrated problem solving and analysis within a broad framework of AbbVie’s financial policies (CFMs), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Preferred: MBA in Accounting or Finance and/or CPA/CMA
- Preferred: Multi-division experience, knowledge of the financial planning process and knowledge of manufacturing processes
- Preferred: Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such as SAP ERP, SAP BPC, and experience with business intelligence tools such as Power BI