Finance Lead, Corporate Accounting

Company Description

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. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Corporate Accounting Lead provides critical accounting support for certain compensation areas, including the Company’s equity award programs and executive compensation. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, executing month-end close journal entries, account reconciliations, tracking ABBV equity activity and leading key compensation activities (director payments, secular trust activities). This role works closely with Executive Compensation and Payroll.

Responsibilities

• Executes month-end close processes, including journal entries, account reconciliations and reporting
• Accounting responsibilities include but are not limited to share-based compensation, equity accounting, executive bonus plans, employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) and dividends
• Collaborates with Executive Compensation, Payroll, Tax and Treasury to ensure processes are accurately completed and internal customer needs are met
• Prepares equity-related financial statement and footnote disclosures for External Reporting (10-Q/K)
• Supports secular trust accounting and reporting
• Prepares executive compensation related disclosures for Proxy statement filing
• Identifies opportunities to improve / streamline current processes and procedures
• Responsible for compliance with applicable AbbVie Finance Policies and US GAAP, and ensuring appropriate documentation of processes and controls are in place in compliance with required internal controls and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) requirements
• Support of audit, internal control and SOX audit and review processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.
• CPA preferred.
• 4+ years of finance and acco