Area 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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• 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

We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager - Area Sales to join our Commercial Finance team at our Austin, Texas location. This position will provide primary financial support for two Area Vice Presidents as well as supplemental support for two product segments within the US CRM (Cardiac Rhythm Management) organization. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

What You’ll Work On 

• Produce high impact business analyses and decision support to optimize sales growth, market share gains, impact of new product launches, and profitability 

• Collaborate with commercial teams to evaluate and prioritize strategic initiatives - continually monitor effectiveness and appropriateness 

• Provide leadership with current performance assessments, trend analyses, recommended success metrics and proposals for improvements 

• Analyze procedure and revenue data by geography, account, product, and by sales rep/clinical; develop and recommend solutions in the areas of territory alignment, field force productivity, resource planning and expense management 

• Prepare forecasts, analytics and financial presentations for executive meetings supporting the quarterly LBE (Latest Best Estimate) process 

• Compile, analyze, and presents findings on financial and sales competitive intelligence 

• Collaborate with other commercial sales teams, finance, marketing, operations, supply chain to develop and implement business solutions and margin improvement programs 

• Oversee monthly financial closing activities as well as prepare financial modeling and ad hoc analysis 

 

 

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field 

• 4+ years of experience performing financial and variance analysis, forecasting, planning, and financial modeling 

• Ability to prioritize, influence, drive for results, meet deadlines and engage others to accomplish projects in a fast-paced, changing environment 

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization