Finance Lead - R&D
AbbVie
August 19, 2026
Remote friendly (North Chicago, IL)
United States
$96,500 - $183,500 USD yearly
Corporate Functions
Purpose:
- Help enhance analytics and technology capabilities that transform how clinical trial investments are planned, monitored, and understood. Serve as Finance Lead in Center of Excellence Clinical Trials, translating strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, tools, and scalable forecasting capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders.
- Establish a trusted, consistent data foundation for clinical trial forecasting.
- Develop new analytical capabilities as business needs evolve.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes and improve data quality, speed, and scalability through automation.
- Develop analytics to validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and identify anomalies, inconsistencies, and potential forecast risks.
- Support development and enhancement of systems and tools for clinical trial financial forecasting.
- Design and implement a new financial system for clinical trial forecasting.
- Support integration of forecasting data with existing clinical trial and operational systems.
- Maintain and develop dashboards combining clinical trial financial and operational data from multiple systems.
- Partner with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to connect financial and operational information.
- Test and scale new AI-enabled capabilities.
- Collaborate with Therapeutic Area Clinical Trial Finance and embedded clinical trial forecasters to improve CoE solutions.
Qualifications:
Required:
- BA/BS degree required (Finance, Accounting, and/or Health/Life Sciences preferred).
- Minimum 7 years of progressive, relevant finance experience.
- Strong analytical mindset; comfortable with large, complex, disparate datasets.
- Experience developing/managing dashboards, reporting solutions, analytics, or financial systems.
- Ability to translate business problems into practical data and technology solutions.
- Strong interest in AI, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging Finance technologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across Finance, Clinical, Data, and Technology.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Comfort in a new, evolving environment.
Preferred:
- MBA or Master’s degree in a related field.
- Pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience.
- Experience with SAP, BPC, ClinPro, Power BI, and/or Clin2Pay.
- Experience with data visualization tools, analytics platforms, or financial planning systems.
- Help enhance analytics and technology capabilities that transform how clinical trial investments are planned, monitored, and understood. Serve as Finance Lead in Center of Excellence Clinical Trials, translating strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, tools, and scalable forecasting capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders.
- Establish a trusted, consistent data foundation for clinical trial forecasting.
- Develop new analytical capabilities as business needs evolve.
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes and improve data quality, speed, and scalability through automation.
- Develop analytics to validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and identify anomalies, inconsistencies, and potential forecast risks.
- Support development and enhancement of systems and tools for clinical trial financial forecasting.
- Design and implement a new financial system for clinical trial forecasting.
- Support integration of forecasting data with existing clinical trial and operational systems.
- Maintain and develop dashboards combining clinical trial financial and operational data from multiple systems.
- Partner with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to connect financial and operational information.
- Test and scale new AI-enabled capabilities.
- Collaborate with Therapeutic Area Clinical Trial Finance and embedded clinical trial forecasters to improve CoE solutions.
Qualifications:
Required:
- BA/BS degree required (Finance, Accounting, and/or Health/Life Sciences preferred).
- Minimum 7 years of progressive, relevant finance experience.
- Strong analytical mindset; comfortable with large, complex, disparate datasets.
- Experience developing/managing dashboards, reporting solutions, analytics, or financial systems.
- Ability to translate business problems into practical data and technology solutions.
- Strong interest in AI, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging Finance technologies.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across Finance, Clinical, Data, and Technology.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Comfort in a new, evolving environment.
Preferred:
- MBA or Master’s degree in a related field.
- Pharmaceutical/biotech industry experience.
- Experience with SAP, BPC, ClinPro, Power BI, and/or Clin2Pay.
- Experience with data visualization tools, analytics platforms, or financial planning systems.