Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst –
ACCA Careers at Abbott

Location:

St. Paul, MN

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.

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit – an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies by Fortune.
• A company recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

• Provides cost planning, analysis and reporting to management for assigned manufacturing sites, including setting production cost standards for labor and material, maintaining and updating standard cost files, partnering with manufacturing entity managers to develop and track budgets, updating forecasts, providing variance analysis, and product cost analysis.
• Provides sophisticated reporting to management due to extensive knowledge of the finance systems and high familiarity with business operations.
• Based on reporting and analysis, makes recommendations to finance management to save costs, scale for the future, and maintain data accuracy, including recommendations relating to purchase price, scrap, inventory cycle counts, work order volume, etc.
• Serves as finance subject expert for assigned manufacturing entities and leads special projects as assigned by finance management.
• Executes annual goals based on manufacturing site operating plans and finance department needs.
• Provides month‑end reporting to finance department leadership.
• Executes reporting on pre‑established schedules for quarterly corporate reporting, external audits, and internal audits.
• Supports all company initiatives identified by management and in support of QMS, EMS and other regulatory requirements.
• Complies with U.S. FDA regulations and other regulatory requirements, company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments, maintaining positive and cooperative communication across all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting and/or finance in a manufacturing environment, with experience in cost analysis and reporting, inventory and COGS, cycle counting, establishing and maintaining standard costs, and/or variance analysis and forecasting.
• Extensive knowledge of GAAP, financial reporting, and manufacturing issues.
• Advanced proficiency utilizing Excel.
• Previous experience working in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels of the organization.

• Advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or related field.
• Medical device experience.
• Advanced proficiency with SAP.

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Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

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