Abbott

Senior Financial Analyst

Abbott$78K — $156K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
  • 3-5 years of finance experience with increasing responsibilities
  • Proven ability to provide data and analysis for decision-making
  • Strong problem-solving skills with a systematic approach
  • Desire to continually learn and mentor others

Responsibilities

  • Own the forecasting and variance tracking for $20MM SG&A spending
  • Develop and maintain sales analytics to enhance forecasting
  • Create and monitor balance sheet forecasts aligned with P&L
  • Assist in month-end close with journal entries and commentary
  • Support ad hoc financial requests for US and LAC teams

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Opportunities for career growth and development
  • Supportive work culture promoting work-life balance
Full Job Description

The Opportunity
This position works out of our Lake Forest location in the Molecular Diagnostics division.  Our molecular division delivers best-in-class innovative testing solutions for people around the world to provide answers to life’s critical health decisions.  We help people live full and healthy lives through our accessible, molecular-based solutions.  

As the Sr. Financial Analyst, you’ll have the chance to Support the AMD US Commercial organization as the primary owner of SG&A budget planning, supporting sales and margin forecasting, monthly actuals reporting, and variance analysis, in addition to ad hoc support of the LAC Commercial organization while reporting to the US Commercial Finance Manager. This is an area-level FP&A opportunity with a focus on the 5-line P&L and full Balance Sheet.

What You’ll Work On

  • Owning the forecasting and variance tracking for $20MM of SG&A spending for the US Commercial Organization.
  • Develop and maintain in-depth sales analytics to strengthen our forecasting efforts, challenging the sales team to achieve expectations and provide insights to commercial organization leaders.
  • Create a balance sheet forecast for the US Commercial organization and track against results monthly, ensuring alignment with P&L forecasting done by the organization.
  • Assist in the month-end close process by completing Monthly Journal Entries and assisting in completing monthly commentary tracking variances vs. forecast.
  • Assist with ad hoc requests across both the US and LAC Commercial organizations as required.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with concentration in accounting or finance.
  • 3- 5 years of finance experience to include roles of increasing responsibility in accounting and or finance.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide data and analysis to support decision making, methodical approach to problem-solving and rational ideas supporting them.
  • Ability to keep learning and to teach others, traditional accounting knowledge and facilitator of management needs, streamlining functions within the department.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5 years of experience
  • Proficient in excel and data analytics

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: https://abbottbenefits.com/

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

     

The base pay for this position is

$78,000.00 – $156,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:Financial Planning and Analysis

     

DIVISION:AMD Molecular

        

LOCATION:United States > Lake Forest : J55

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:Standard

     

TRAVEL:No

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

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