Financial Controller

Financial Controller – Pharmaceutical Division

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• 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

This position works out of our Mexico City location in our Established Pharmaceuticals Division. We are committed to bringing the benefits of our trusted medicines to more people in the world’s fastest-growing countries. Our broad portfolio of high-quality and differentiated branded generic medicines reaches across multiple therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, women's health, cardiometabolic, pain management/central nervous system, and respiratory.

The Financial Controller is a key leader that not only acts but lead cross functional for the right fiduciary and stewardship mentality, provides accurate actuals business analysis, maximizes investments returns and ensures quality across the multiple reporting to the Region, also deploys the right due diligence for successful planning cycles, and the right partnership with the Sales and Marketing local organization and with the regional functions to deliver on goals.

• Establishes the right processes to secure the needed internal control and deploys the needed leadership to ensure that the entire organization complies.
• Owns data management and business-financials analysis for underlying performance assessment and decision-making including resources and capital allocation.
• Partners cross functionally for action mobilization to deliver on challenging results.
• Provides strategic input to the business for sales acceleration and margins improvement.
• Leads end to end all planning cycles anticipating for the right action to protect and create value.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure integrity of financials; maintains sound internal controls and secure satisfactory audits.
• Partner cross functionally for insights, analysis, investment decision, and execution.
• Presents effectively financial and non-financial information to GM, Region and leadership team.
• Review Actuals P&L and Balance Sheet, understand underlying variances, take corrective actions, and manages risk and opportunities.
• Have in place the right governance and action for continuous margin improvement.
• Manages the process, content, and deliverables of the quarterly rolling LBE and support LTP process.
• Leads and develop his/her team for success and defines career development opportunities.
• Provides financial and strategic insights to Local-Region-Division Management on key business matters.
• Delivers high end financials forecast accuracy and supports improvement of the supply forecast.
• Successfully manages the annual cost change process ensuring assumptions quality and implications assessment.
• Is agile to function as PMO when needed, usually supporting Area Finance projects or Global Tools-Systems implementation.

Required Qualifications

• 4-5 years degree or equivalent experience in accounting, business, finance, economy, or industrial engineering, masters in these areas preferred.
• 8-10 years of country relevant finance experience aligned to the role expectations with proven track record in financial planning and analysis, business-commercial partnering and internal control.

Preferred Qualifications

• Initiative, analytical thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Financial planning and analysis capabilities and financial reporting and accounting competences
• Internal Control competences and Demand Planning capabilities

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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