Director, Corporate Administration FP&A

Role Summary

The Director, Corporate Administration FP&A is responsible for all FP&A activities supporting Corporate Benefits, HR, Tax, Treasury and Audit. This role serves as the primary Finance partner to an ELT member and 20 VPs, supporting all financial requirements, providing decision-support, and contributing to the P&L and key functional initiatives. It supports global budgets of approximately $1.8 billion and 1,200 headcount, and leads a team of 5 financial professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial planning process for all planning cycles: Plan, LRP, and LBE's with meaningful commentary, analysis, executive summaries, and presentations to ELT members
• Ensure monthly financial results are completed accurately and timely with executive summaries and insightful commentary for the function’s leadership team
• Lead all 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 the Corporate Benefits planning and reporting ($1.4 billion gross expenses) including:
  • Accounting and planning for Pension/OPEB, cash profit sharing, AbbVie savings plan, Medical, Dental, ST/LT disability, worker’s compensation
  • U.S. fringe rate accounting and planning to monitor U.S. headcount trends and manage over/under recovery at the Corporate level
  • Coordination of OUS pension/OPEB planning cycles and topside adjustments at the Corporate level
  • Partnership with Corporate Accounting on global review of Pension/OPEB costs and FASB requirements with P&L classification
• Support global functional budgets for HR, Tax, Treasury, and Audit (approximately $300MM budget and 1,200 headcount)
• Support Corporate Tax and Risk Management Programs (approximately $100MM budget)
• Act as strategic partner providing financial counsel for the function’s leadership team, delivering/exceeding financial commitments, spend management, acquisition synergies, and other business initiatives
• Manage and lead an organization of 5 financial professionals
• Maintain controls to assure asset integrity and compliance with GAAP and corporate financial policies and procedures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required. CPA or MBA desirable
• 15+ years of progressive financial reporting, planning, and analysis experience directly supporting functional leadership teams at VP level
• 7+ years’ experience managing staff with ability to develop staff capabilities
• Strong accounting experience with ability to ensure adequate controls and GAAP compliance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently with ELT members and their staff
• Strategic leader capable of driving process improvements and presenting business solutions
• Ability to build strong relationships cross-functionally to enable higher performance