The Finance Analyst position assists with financial planning and analysis, actuals processes, and systems/tools for the R&D HQ team. The responsibility encompasses portions of the HQ annual expense budgets and supports the Assistant Controller, R&D, and the Director, R&D FP&A. This position also works closely with R&D functional Finance Directors and the R&D Actuals team. The Finance Analyst will also lead the monthly LBE, Plan, and LRP Internals Demand and Capacity processes and will be the primary point person for the R&D Strategic Resourcing (RDSR) team. The position will have exposure across all R&D functions and R&Ds ability to support one AbbVie. Overall, the position develops financial planning and analytical skills, and the individual will engage regularly with leadership team members.

Responsibilities

• Develops the annual Plan, LRP and LBEs, including P&L and headcount for R&D HQ for senior management review for certain areas of the HQ Budget
  • Operates independently to prepare schedules and relevant analysis for each planning cycle and develops clear support for management review
  • Completes the monthly close process and financial reporting to ensure complete, accurate and timely monthly actual results, including variance commentary for P&L, headcount for the R&D HQ budget.  Understands monthly results and communicates issues vs. benchmark to businesses to agree on resolution or action plan
  • Provides management with clear insights into drivers of business and financial performance and risk
• Responsible for leading the Internals Demand and Capacity processes
  • Work with Assistant Controller, Director R&D FP&A, the R&D Finance Directors and RDSR to ensure alignment on the capacity process and implement process improvements for efficiency; send capacity files each month and for Plan and LRP
  • Work with RDSR and HQs on the monthly internal demand load into Power BI; ensure data is accurate, perform analysis over the data submitted by RDSR, work with BPC team on data requests for the upload, perform the upload into Power BI and check for accuracy
  • Set up and lead monthly meetings with RDSR to ensure alignment on process and timing
• Assists on an ad-hoc basis with requests or slides related to the overall R&D LBE, Plan and LRP