Associate Director, Finance

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

Purpose

The primary focus of this position, as part of the Finance Shared Services (FSS) organisation is to provide support to the Procure to Pay (PTP) Global Process Lead in the sub process areas of Vendor Management, bank Verification, Supplier Relationship Management workflow (SRM) Requesting and Approvals, Receiving Goods & Services, Travel & Expense and Payables as AbbVie moves to standardized global processes supported by one ERP system (SAP). The role has a crucial responsibility in keeping over 13,000 current (2025 census) PTP users informed about key areas of the process and system functionality, upcoming enhancements. The role will have direct reports to manage.

Responsibilities

• Heads the Process Lead part of the overall FSS Procure to Pay team
• Acts as delegate for the Global Process Lead, PTP in time of business travel and out of office events
• Leads the identification of process improvement opportunities in the PTP process area
• Drives prompt maintenance of all PTP Standard Operating Procedures and Country Variants post an enhancement that impacts them
• Leads integration projects end to end using Smartsheet methodology
• Leads the Local Key User team – providing regular updates on upcoming enhancements, impacts of changes and go live activities
• Leads prioritization of PTP ERP enhancement requests and support tickets with BTS PTP SAP technical team, Finance Shared Services teams (e.g. Record to Report (RTR)) and other key functional teams.
• Engages functions outside of FSS in all changes to the PTP operating model – Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Corporate Headquarter Functions, Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC).
• Supports the Design