Role Summary
The Senior Manager, Financial Planning, US Therapeutics leads the financial planning processes for US Therapeutics (USTx) annual plan and long-range plan (LRP) planning cycles, ensuring data quality and providing leadership with insights into risks and opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and lead USTx business units through the Long-range Plan and annual Plan planning cycles, including issuance of guidance, consolidation of results, and validation of key assumptions. This includes consolidating total budgets of over $40Bn in Net Sales across US business units (Immunology, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Specialty, and commercial support functions).
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment among global teams, corporate functions, legal, R&D, operations, and other key stakeholders.
- Financial system tie-outs, ensuring data accuracy and integrity, while supporting ongoing system maintenance and process optimization.
- Coordinate timelines and deliverables and standardize processes and content across organizations.
- Develop and maintain schedules including mock books, consolidated financial schedules, and supporting P&L documentation.
- Partner with the USTx finance teams to prepare executive-level planning materials and presentations.
- Update and manage the LBE (Latest Best Estimate) sales causals template, ensuring alignment with business unit inputs.
- Oversee Power BI dashboards and ensure timely refreshes and data integrity across financial systems.
- Provide analytical data analysis to help management understand business changes versus key benchmarks such as the annual plan, LBE, and prior year, highlighting key trends, variances, and actionable insights.
- Support ad hoc requests, lead projects and participate in functional and corporate initiatives.
Qualifications
- 8+ years progressive accounting or finance experience
- Bachelorβs degree in accounting or finance; MBA or CPA preferred
- Strong understanding of AbbVie financial planning processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such as SAP and BPC; proficient with Power BI or other data visualization tools
- Extremely proficient in Microsoft Office, primarily Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to solve business problems through proactive identification of issues and subsequent data collection, analysis, and interpretation
- Experience working independently as well as in team environments and integrating activities across multiple functions/divisions
- Ability to meet tight deadlines while balancing competing priorities
- Ability to work well in a team environment and build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders