About AbbVie
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. The company aims to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience, and products and services in its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
Responsibilities
The CSEE Senior Finance Manager is a management position reporting into the CSEE Finance Lead. The CSEE cluster is the largest cluster within Greater Europe and is comprised of 9 countries. The role works effectively with the CSEE Finance Lead to improve finance processes across the cluster and deliver strong team performance, partnering with the AA Commercial team on business growth and finance support as a true business partner.
Business Support, Finance/Accounting
•Helps create and drive growth across the cluster and key countries
•Partners to build investment business cases with right ROI and investment allocations
•Drives most financially and business efficient go-to-market model incl. indirect markets
•Leads a strong environment of business support and financial controls
•Actively completes financial planning and reporting processes in close collaboration with the CSEE Finance Lead, Greater Europe AA Finance team and CSEE Leadership
•Responsible for budget and plans realisation, update and follow ups
•Ensures the accuracy, completeness, integrity, and reliability of all financial information and that deadlines are met
•Presents results to local teams
•Implements financial business systems
•Works with finance counterparts on the administration of the company's financial activities for local statutory and US GAAP purposes
•Works with finance counterparts to ensure the P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow are a fair reflection of assets and liabilities of the Company
•Creates best practice network; effectively manages matrix relationships with Aesthetics Finance, Commercial teams and wider Finance colleagues
Investment and Business Opportunities
•Evaluates investment prospects and business opportunities and their overall financial consequences
•Financial feasibilities and due diligence of future arrangements
•Tax and financial planning
Supply Chain and Demand Planning
•Drives an effective monthly Sales & Operational Planning process across the CSEE region, integrating business, finance and supply chain planning, ensuring transparent assumptions, secure and efficient supply, robust risk management and strong forecast accuracy
Tax, Treasury and Risk policies
•Works with finance counterparts to: oversee bank accounts and cash management, tax and capex procedures, ensure proper management of overall Taxation matters, oversee the Treasury function to ensure cash flow for the business is secured
•Responsible for Audit: leads on relationships with local auditors, financial corporate and official bodies
•Works through Internal Audit and develops best-practice Corporate Governance standards, tracks compliance with Group and Corporate Governance policies
•Ensures appropriate financial risk, accounting and auditing policies and procedures of the Company are followed
•Develops a "contingency planning" approach to managing operational risks
Leading Team/People Development & Cross-Functional Cooperation
•Develops and retains skilled and competent staff
•Sets goals to align people performance to business goals, KPIs and to maximize opportunities
•Ensures the team acts as support for the business as true business partners
•Liaises with relevant Local and Area functions in order to integrate area strategy/tactics into local planning
•Builds strong connections with CSEE and Greater Europe team
•Ensures required follow up with support functions (regulatory, pricing, HR, legal)
Employee shall perform any additional tasks in line with the orders and instructions of Line Managers and other Superiors in accordance with the function and activity of the company.
Requirements
•Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting or related; Master's degree/MBA highly preferred
•Fully Qualified accountant
•6+ years post qualification experience, ideally in multinational company, with focus on commercial finance
•Strong business acumen, presentation/communication skills and ability to build working relationships
•Excellent command of the English Language
•Strong analytical skills, Excel skills & ideally experience of ERP systems (e.g.: SAP)
