Senior Financial Analyst, Nutrition North America Manufacturing - Columbus, OH

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.

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Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. Youll also have access to:

• 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 high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelors degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands including Similac, PediaSure, Pedialyte, Ensure, and Glucerna to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life

Our location in Columbus, OH currently has an opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst supporting North American Manufacturing in the Nutrition division.

This position will report directly to the North America Manufacturing Sr. Finance Manager and act as a financial partner and provide support to Abbott Nutrition Supply Chain (ANSC) North America Manufacturing Operations. Individual will work across multiple organizations, functions and plants in the execution of responsibilities. In addition, the position will afford the individual an excellent opportunity to interface with all levels of management (including senior management) both in Operations and Finance and gain exposure to a variety of operational issues, processes, and projects. The role affords an individual an ideal opportunity to broaden their experience and gain high visibility within the organization.

Responsibilities

• Working with plant controllers/staff and NA controller, responsible to lead pulling together overall NA quarterly LBEs, related supporting analytics as well as helping develop and deliver concise/insightful presentation of key business drivers. Participate in plant reviews as well as overall NA presentations to leadership.
• Responsible in leading and providing overall support for North America operations monthly actual results (including P&L and investment responsibility), monthly business review analytics, as well as coordinate financial impacts of monthly S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) volume dynamics and overall mfg. volume analytics in LBEs/Plans/ad hoc.
• Standards process/Plan- supporting overall process including cost change dynamics as well as other analytics. If feasible, supplement plant finance team to further understanding of standards process and as a development opportunity.
• Help drive financial process improvements, standardization across both NA operations as well as overall ANSC and international counterparts, as appropriate.
• Further responsibilities of the position include standard cost analysis & cost estimates on new products, financial support for ANSC strategic initiatives/projects, ANSC financial forecast and modeling for LBEs, development of financial support for Plans and business reviews.
• Other ad hoc/special projects, leadership requests for both NA Operations and ANSC division, etc. as needed.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors degree required, preferably Business Administration or Finance concentration
• CPA/MBA a plus
• Prefer 3-5 years combined finance experience in the following areas: FP&A, General Accounting, Cost Accounting and/or Corporate Finance.
• Advanced use of Microsoft Office Applications, with a specific focus on Excel, working knowledge of SAP/Symphony, HFM and Host Analytics Applications and Data Analytics tools such as Power BI preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• A generalist with financial expertise. Needs to have an entrepreneurial passion with a focus on getting results. The individual must enjoy thinking big as opposed to having a narrow analytical focus.
• A self-starter with attention to detail. The candidate must possess strong analytical, communication (oral and written) and organizational skills plus have an ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines; must be able to handle multiple competing priorities.
• To be truly effective, the role must be able to operate independently with significant interfaces across groups in operations and finance functions and be able to balance demands from a variety of customers with potentially conflicting goals. Must be able to communicate effectively up and down the organization and across the functional areas.
  

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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.