Finance Manager, R&D Business Development

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 R&D, BD and Alliances, Finance Manager leads the coordination and consolidation of R&D cost forecasts for Business Development assessments including licensing, acquisitions, and collaboration opportunities. The role interacts cross-functionally with project teams to cost asset development plans, review modeling assumptions, and support ad-hoc BD requests. Key stakeholders include Portfolio Program Management, Business Development & Acquisition, BD&A Finance, Search and Evaluation, Strategic Resourcing, and Business Functional Directors and VPs. The candidate will also be responsible for the growth and development of one direct report.

Responsibilities

• Building R&D cost models for BD assessments, collaborating with cross functional contacts to collect model inputs and pressure test assumptions.

• Responsible for updating R&D Cost Summaries for BD governance reviews to enable strong decision making on strategic investments.

• Lead monthly BD updates with R&D VP ensuring deal awareness and Day 1 budget impacts.

• Supervise R&D Partner Funding month-end activities and submissions for all aspects of monthly, quarterly, annual Plan, LRP and LBEs as required, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.

• Provide Finance support for the transition and operationalization of newly executed BD agreements into R&D Organization, including preparation of Corporate and Integration Team deliverables.

• Supports key projects and initiatives (e.g. R&D cost modeling standardization, BD deal reporting and optimization) and drives process improvements.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting. CPA or MBA