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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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Senior Financial Analyst role is an excellent opportunity based in Macquarie Park, NSW supporting our Neuromodulation division.

The Senior Financial Analyst partners with the business and acts in a controllership role for ANZ, working closely with the ANZ Country Manager to drive growth in topline and bottom line, take P&L ownership and drive sound financial processes & discipline to support sustainable growth in the business.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead sales forecast call during the weekly Australia Leadership Meeting. H/she has to be able to call out key drivers of growth/decline, key trends, validate forecasts, flag out risk, actively using data/key metrics to facilitate discussion between Country Manager, Marketing and the Regional Sales Managers.

• Prepare and Present clear & meaningful sales report, revenue dashboards/trend charts, key leading indicators to ANZ & APAC management vs key benchmarks (Prior Year/Plan/Latest Best Estimate/Market performance) to drive visibility and strong business understanding.

• Gathering important commercial data and compiling it into reports business leaders can use to drive fact-based decisions – with focus on forward looking analysis to drive risk/opportunity identification. (eg. Procedure data, automate, streamline).

• Drive new innovations in the finance space through the maintaining/development of Power BI dashboards/functions where applicable.

• Responsible for Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis of the ANZ commercial division with ownership of full Profit & Loss (P&L) based on key benchmarks (Prior Year Plan/Latest Best Estimate/Market performance).

• Perform in depth reviews and variance analysis on key P&L line items such as Revenue, Gross Margin, Operating expenses and Division Margin.

• Demonstrate proactive ownership in a problem-solving approach to issues/tasks to drive accountability within the organisation such as providing proposals to Country Manager to aid appropriate courses of action.

• Lead Quarterly LBE/Business Review processes with Country Manager and prepare loading of financial forecast into the Dodeca system.

• Support annual territory planning and set up annual quota for the ANZ commercial team.

• Perform Incentive accrual and Incentive payment calculations.

• Own the accuracy and completeness of the sales reporting system that is relied upon by the sales force to see both actual results but also Targets.

• Prepare and Load Quotas into sales reporting system to allow Variance analysis by reps; assist in filling up quota template for Neurosmart.

• Helps to develop business cases for market expansions and product launches by running financial scenarios (e.g. revenues, profitability etc)

• Ability to work with and coordinate effectively with and leading cross divisional/functional teams related to markets with controller responsibility, specifically customer services, Commercial, CFS/HUB Accounting, Compliance, Audit, AP/AR, IT.

Responsibilities for all functions:

• This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.

• When tasks and responsibilities are assigned outside the scope of normal duties, the employee must understand the level of decision making for which he/she is responsible and if in doubt clarify this with his/her supervisor.

Competencies

• You will need to be comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, quick learner and adaptable to changes.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Confident in framing complex data into meaningful information and present to Senior Executives to help drive strategic decision making.

• Forward looking, forward thinking and proactively finding solutions to support the business. Willing to solve problems and reach out cross-functionally.

• Ability to hold commercial leaders accountable and influencing decisions within the business.

• Ability to work independently and work as a team are key.

• H/she will be expected to have a sound Financial accounting knowledge with experience in either Practice or Industry required whilst having excellent excel skills and a mindset of learning and growth to develop within the role.

• Advance skills with Excel and an established data-cube system (hyperion, Dodeca etc) and strong SAP system knowledge. Ability to perform detailed variance analyses.

• Multitasks, prioritises and meets deadlines in timely manner.

• Proven track record of driving process improvements, leading projects, and delivering results in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong organisational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail.

• Ability to travel approximately 5%, including internationally.

Minimum Experience/Qualifications Required

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to translate data and communicate into meaningful information confidently to Senior Executives to help drive strategic decision making

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, forward thinking and finding solutions proactively.

• CPA/CA Qualification or working towards.

• Minimum 8-10 years' finance experience.

• High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint and ability to learn/leverage digital tools.

Capabilities

Abbott First – Servant Leadership; Ownership; Transparent; One Team; Judgment

One Step Ahead – Insight Driven; Decisiveness; Anticipatory Problem Solving

Play to Win – Drive the Market; Strategic; Results Focused

Powered by People – Build Trust; Coach & Develop; Create Culture; Inclusive

Abbott is committed to building a diverse workforce that values diversity across gender, age, culture, disability and lifestyle.

In order to be eligible to work for Abbott in Australia or New Zealand, you must hold current working rights with no restrictions for the respective country applicable.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com