Field Finance Manager

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Field Finance Manager

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our New Brighton, MN location in the Structural Heart division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.

We aim to lead the markets we serve by requiring the solutions we offer customers provide an improved benefit/risk profile as compared to existing standards of care; a performance threshold that by definition, guides and ensures the productive output of our engineering, business development, and clinical research efforts result in outcomes that advance the standard of care.

The Field Finance Manager will lead advanced financial analysis, forecasting, and insights to influence strategic decision-making and support organizational objectives.

What You’ll Work On

Responsible for the review and analysis of assigned projects that may include:

• Financial statements analysis
• Preparation, review and analysis of requests for capital expenditures and purchase orders
• Pricing analysis
• Gross Margin/COGS Analysis
• Profit plan preparation
• Long-range planning analysis
• Balance Sheet Reconciliations/Cash Flow Analysis
• Review and analysis of profitability
• Journal Entry Preparation
• Resource Allocation/Headcount Planning
• Supply Chain/Global Demand Analytics
• Applies educational and advanced knowledge of accounting and financial principles and requirements to support business needs.
• Operates independently under general management direction; work is only reviewed to determine if desired results and objectives have been achieved.
• Maintain controls to ensure integrity of assets and compliance with applicable policies, procedures, guidelines and internal controls.
• Responsible for compliance around balance sheet reconciliations and works with both internal/external audit requests.
• Projects can be varied and complex; may refer to established precedents to develop solutions; use of innovative thinking is required. Plans/leads projects and analyzes results to present recommendations to leadership.
• Frequent inter-and intra-divisional collaborations; represents area as a prime contact on projects.
• May have department budget responsibility.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of professional experience in sales/commercial-focused financial planning and analysis, sales operations, sales strategy, or other related field

• Ability to quickly and effectively analyze data, extract trends from analysis, and translate trends into actionable insights

• Must have strong quantitative abilities/experience in data management, data gathering, data analytics and analysis

• Demonstrated organizational skills, attentiveness to detail, ability to work under limited supervision and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously

• Requires the ability to be self-motivated to accomplish tasks in a proactive manner

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment

• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects

• Demonstrated interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and presentation skills, ability to resolve moderately complex problems, deal with unresolved issues, delays and unexpected events, while effectively communicating and maintaining rapport at various levels within an organization

• Strong analytical ability, originality and ingenuity required

• Extensive experience with various information systems is required; must have the knowledge and ability to extract data from multiple information systems on an ad-hoc basis

• Multitasks, prioritizes, and meets deadlines in timely manner

• Flexibility to travel approximately 15%

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional experience in Medical Device/Technology

• PowerBI or similar system experience strongly preferred

• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model

     

The base pay for this position is

$99,300.00 – $198,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Financial Planning and Analysis

     

DIVISION:

SH Structural Heart

        

LOCATION:

United States > Minnesota > St. Paul : 1225 Old Highway 8 NW

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 15 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

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