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 Data Platform and Financial Reporting Associate Director will oversee the development, implementation, and management of data-driven insights and financial reporting processes. This role involves strategic planning, execution, and management of the financial data within the enterprise data platform and analytics capabilities to support business goals, ensure operational efficiency, and protect organizational finance data.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing leadership in establishing and driving the long-term strategy for managing the financial data within the data platform.
• Ensuring data quality and providing insights for the creation of Finance reporting.

Additionally, the Associate Director will play a critical role in building a financial data management framework. This includes standardizing financial data processes throughout the organization and bridging the needs and priorities of the business and IT departments.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Platform Responsibilities

• Designing databases: Designing every aspect of a database, including data models, layouts, and architectures
• Identifying needs: Identifying financial business needs and data opportunities, and determining the requirements for new data assets to support financial reporting
• Implementing data flows: Implementing ETL (Extract, Transfer, and Load) financial data flows and data pipelines
• Maintaining databases: Auditing databases regularly to maintain quality, and creating systems to keep data secure
• Collaborating with teams: Coordinating with other team members to reach project milestones and deadlines, and collaborating with Finance and IT business leaders
• Identifying areas for improvement: Identifying areas for improvement in current systems, and proactively identifying potential areas for innovation and improvement
• Presenting design reports: Publishing and/or presenting design reports

Reporting Responsibilities

• Financial reporting: Direct preparation of standardized templates for financial reports, such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
• Analysis: Provide guidance on analyzing financial data and developing reports and dashboards to support decision making
• Budgeting: Direct development of budgets and forecasts templates
• Reporting: Direct preparation of routine and ad-hoc reporting, and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Financial controls: Supporting the implementation of financial controls across the division
• Process development: Developing processes to ensure accurate and timely reporting
• Training: Preparing and presenting training on financial/accounting topics as it relates to data quality
• Audit support: Preparing audit requests, technical accounting assessments, and audit tracker reports
• Policy review: Supporting the preparation and review of corporate accounting policies and procedures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in business intelligence, data analysis, or a related role.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively translate sophisticated concepts into easily understandable language
• Good interpersonal skills to lead groups and negotiate and build consensus regarding future goals
• The ability to conceptualize holistic architecture solutions that address the needs of an organization as a whole
• The ability to manage and facilitate technological change
• A solid understanding of existing and emerging data technologies
• In-depth knowledge of the principles and practices of good systems design
• Innovative thinking to devise solutions that address the gap between business needs and technological constraints
• Experience with SAP Suite products (SAP 4/HANA, BW 4/HANA, BPC, Group Reporting, etc). Also experience with PowerBI, Tableau, etc.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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