AdresseAbout Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst to join Abbott. This position works out of our Maidenhead location in the Diabetes Division.
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
As the Senior Financial Analyst you will play an integral role supporting the financial planning for UK & I, you will be responsible for the maintenance of financial planning systems and annual plans.
What You’ll Do
- Assist production of financial plans (rolling LBEs, Plan, CDR) & creation of presentations as directed for UK&I businesses
- Lead divisional contact for month-end close for Ireland hub and Shared Services.
- Assist in month-end closing ; preparing journal entries for sales & expenses and performing variance analysis vs various benchmarks.
- Perform detailed analysis on key SG&A expense items
- Identify, suggest, agree and implement improvements in financial planning tools and methodologies.
- Identify and highlight exceptions to the forecast on an ongoing basis, providing root cause explanations for key drivers of forecast variance and suggest improvements accordingly.
- Key finance partner for marketing team in effective tracking of promotional spend budget, improvement of spend tracking tools and providing adhoc analysis.
- Preparation of sales force expense dashboard (travel and meeting) to help facilitate culture of budget control for sales director.
- Prepare and publish monthly reporting dashboard post review with Finance team. Review, suggest improvements and align on reporting requirements periodically to ensure relevancy of KPIs.
Required Qualifications
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) or foreign equivalent.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent.
- Experience in commercial finance in healthcare business or
- FMCG.
- • Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential
- • Ability to interact with key stakeholders at leadership level.
- • Can do attitude with strong analytical skills
- • Experience of using SAP, Dodeca and HFM is desirable.
Apply Now
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
WHAT WE OFFER
As you’d expect from a global healthcare company, we offer a fantastic range of benefits including competitive salaries, a superb defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.
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