Financial Planning Jobs in Illinois

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The primary objective of this position is to provide financial leadership for the Plan and LRP planning process for Commercial Controllership Organization. The position will be responsible for providing financial analysis, recommendations, and decision-making support. This position is responsible for supporting development and implementation of processes and procedures to facilitate accurate and timely consolidations of the Plan and LRP.

Core Responsibilities

Financial Planning and Analysis:

• Support the annual Plan and Long-Range Planning processes for the Global commercial organization by coordinating financial forecasts, validating assumptions, and ensuring timely, accurate integration of business inputs.
• Prepare and consolidate planning information for Executive Staff, Global Commercial Finance, Corporate Planning, and other senior stakeholders.
• Guide commercial business units through planning cycles, including issuance of guidance, coordination of timelines, consolidation of results, and validation of key assumptions.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment across finance, global teams, corporate functions, legal, R&D, operations, and other key stakeholders.
• Perform financial system tie-outs to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across planning systems and reporting outputs.
• Support ongoing system maintenance, process optimization, and standardization of planning templates, content, and deliverables.
• Develop and maintain planning schedules, mock books, consolidated financial schedules, supporting P&L documentation, and executive presentation materials.
• Partner with area finance teams to prepare clear, concise, and actionable planning materials for leadership review.
• Analyze financial results and business performance versus key benchmarks, including annual Plan, LBE, prior year, and other relevant scenarios.
• Identify key trends, drivers, risks, opportunities, and variances to support management decision-making.
• Support ad hoc analyses, special projects, functional initiatives, and corporate planning requests as needed.

People Leadership and Development:

• Manage, coach, and develop direct report to ensure high-quality support for the business and continued professional growth.
• Delegate effectively and provide clear guidance, feedback, and support to team members.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and team-oriented environment.
• Support development of finance talent by encouraging ownership, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.

Reports To:

• Associate Director – Finance

Qualifications

• 7+ years progressive accounting or finance experience
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, MBA or CPA preferred
• Strong understanding of AbbVie financial planning processes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such SAP and BPC. Skillful with Power BI or other data visualization tools.
• Extremely proficient in Microsoft Office, primarily Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis, and interpretation of related data
• Experience working independently as well as team environments and integrating activities across multiple functions / divisions
• Ability to meet tight deadlines while balancing competing priorities
• Ability to work well in a team environment and build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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