Finance Controller

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:

Diagnostic testing is a compass, providing information that helps in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a range of health conditions.

Abbott’s life-changing tests and diagnostic tools give you accurate, timely information to better manage your health. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

Our location in Orlando, FL currently has an opportunity for a Finance Controller.

The Abbott Rapid & Molecular Diagnostics Orlando site is part of Global Business Services (GBS).  GBS has a global accountability to deliver an exceptional customer experience and create business value through compliance, standardization and data analytics. The GBS group fosters a collaborative, team focused, and winning environment where employees are accountable and encouraged to develop themselves.

As a key member of the Finance Leadership Team, the Finance Controller leads a large team in Orlando, FL and frequently interacts with RMDx HQ, Business Units and sister Abbott hubs. This role will ensure that the general accounting processes are compliant with standard operating procedures, Abbott Policies, and controls across all divisions and legal entities for their respective region.  The successful candidate has strong interpersonal communication and leadership skills and the ability to interact with various levels of finance personnel, including senior leadership.  This individual is accountable for ensuring the delivery of service commitments throughout RMDx

Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate between FP&A, RMDx HQ, Abbott Hubs, and other functional areas to ensure an effective month-end close.
• Identifies, develops, and implements processes to improve department performance.
• Implement and review financial plans, strategies and new business initiatives including the support of business integration initiatives.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration across process owners to implement standard, efficient processes.
• Works closely with accounting staff to meet deadlines and work with others in the organization to provide requested information from accounting groups as needed. 
• Communicate financial results across Business Units
• Understand data validation techniques.
• Regularly ensures that reporting delivered to internal customers is accurate, rich in actionable content and useful
• Partner with GBS finance leaders and sister Abbott hubs to drive projects, improvements, and enhancements across the finance function.
• Fosters a team collaboration of staff development, mentoring, performance management, engagement, and hiring.
• Frequent interaction with other financial management across the Divisions, Corporate functions, and with Abbott's external and internal auditors. 
• Transfer knowledge to team members for their growth and advancement
• Monitor Fiscal Authority Controls
• Ensure that appropriate SOX Controls are integrated in all departments’ SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Oversee all Site Audits and develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external auditors.
• Review of Actual Plan & Forecast with site managers during forecast Cycles.
• Oversee the calculation, posting and relief of all significant balance sheet accruals and reserves.

Core Competencies

• Demonstrated team leadership ability
• Functional/Technical Skills
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Agility
• Technical Learning
• Business Acumen
• Decision Quality
• Presentation Skills
• Dealing with Ambiguity

Skills/Qualifications

• Demonstrated passion for personal and professional excellence.
• Strong work ethic, uncompromising integrity, and personal humility
• Ability to manage change and help the organization develop into one team through improved processes and systems.
• Excellent attention to detail, well-organized, highly accountable, and self-motivated
• Excellent analytical insight, prioritization, and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal skills
• Experience presenting and analyzing large quant