AbbVie

Finance Lead - R&D

AbbVie • $120K — $145K *
North Chicago, IL 60064In-Person
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • BA/BS in Finance, Accounting, or Health/Life Sciences preferred.
  • 7+ years of progressive finance experience.
  • Proficient with large, complex datasets for analysis.
  • Experience in dashboards, reporting, or financial systems management.
  • Ability to translate business issues into data solutions.
  • Interest in AI, automation, and advanced finance technologies.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, especially across diverse departments.
  • Capable of working under pressure and in evolving environments.

Responsibilities

  • Translate complex data into actionable insights for stakeholders.
  • Establish a reliable data foundation for clinical trial forecasting.
  • Develop analytical capabilities to meet changing business needs.
  • Identify and automate processes for improved data quality and speed.
  • Validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and flag inconsistencies.
  • Enhance systems/tools for clinical trial financial forecasting.
  • Integrate financial data with clinical and operational systems.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package, including medical/dental/vision insurance.
  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
  • Eligibility for short-term incentive programs.
  • 401(k) plan for eligible employees.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Purpose:

Help enhance the analytics and technology capabilities that will transform how clinical trial investments are planned, monitored, and understood. As the Finance Lead in Center of Excellence Clinical Trials, you will be the execution engine, translating the strategic vision into data, dashboards, insights, tools, and scalable forecasting capabilities used across the organization.

Responsibilities:
  • Translate complex data into clear insights and recommendations for Finance and business stakeholders
  • Help establish a trusted, consistent data foundation for clinical trial forecasting.
  • Develop new analytical capabilities as business needs evolve.
  • Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes and improve data quality, speed, and scalability through automation
  • Develop analytics to validate clinical trial modeling assumptions and identify anomalies, inconsistencies, and potential forecast risks.
  • Support the development and ongoing enhancement of systems and tools used for clinical trial financial forecasting.
  • Help design and implement the new financial system for clinical trial forecasting.
  • Support integration of financial forecasting data with existing clinical trial and operational systems.
  • Maintain and develop dashboards that bring together clinical trial financial and operational data from multiple systems.
  • Partner with Clinical Development Operations, BTS, and other functions to connect financial and operational information.
  • Test and scale new AI-enabled capabilities.
  • Collaborate with Therapeutic Area Clinical Trial Finance and their embedded clinical trial forecasters to understand business needs and improve CoE solutions.


Qualifications

Required:
  • BA/BS degree required; degree in Finance, Accounting, and/or Health/Life Sciences preferred.
  • Minimum of 7 years of progressive, relevant finance experience.
  • Strong analytical mindset with an ability to work comfortably with large, complex, and disparate datasets.
  • Experience developing or managing dashboards, reporting solutions, analytics, or financial systems.
  • Ability to translate business problems into practical data and technology solutions.
  • Strong interest in AI, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging Finance technologies.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work across Finance, Clinical, Data, and Technology organizations.
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet deadlines.
  • Comfortable working in a new and evolving environment where the role involves both solving today's problems and building tomorrow's capabilities.

Preferred:
  • MBA or Master's degree in a related field.
  • Pharmaceutical or biotech industry experience strongly encouraged.
  • Experience with SAP, BPC, ClinPro, Power BI, and/or Clin2Pay.
  • Experience with data visualization tools, analytics platforms, or financial planning systems.


Additional Information

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

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.

About AbbVie

AbbVie develops pharmaceuticals and medical devices. They provide products and services to therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health, and gastroenterology.

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We believe in nurturing our team's professional growth through comprehensive training programs, leadership development opportunities, and continuous learning. Our commitment to your career growth is reflected in our robust offerings that enhance your skills and knowledge.

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Learn more about AbbVie
Size
50,000 employees
Market Cap
$288.5 billion
Industry
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Net Income
$4.6 billion
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+17%
Revenue
$45.8 billion
NASDAQ
ABBV
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