Business Analyst

Abbott Laboratories hiring for Business Analyst jobs in Abbott Park, IL, US

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.

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’ll also have access to:

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

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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 bachelor’s 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 location in Abbott Park, IL has an opportunity for a Business Analyst with Telecom Experience.

Responsibilities:

The responsivilities include but are not limited to

• Overall management of vendor

• Attend all vendor/business meetings

• Manage vendor to ensure tasks are being completed, questions are being answered

• Manage vendor issue logs

• Escalate issues when necessary

• Understand what services are paid and where the services reside

• Understand what the services/service types mean and how they are billed

• Processing monthly voice/network invoices from receiving the invoices to making sure they are paid

• Ensuring all accounts are reconciled and paid on time

• Work closely with vendors on invoicing issues

• Ensure invoice is received

• Review invoice in Tangoe to ensure invoice is accurate

• Understand any invoice discrepancies

• Add invoice information to the account spreadsheet

• Review forecast to ensure PO is not overspent

• Understand how current invoice affects forecast/budget

• Monitor invoices to ensure they

  • are approved by all approvals

  • show up on the payment file

  • are processed by AP

  • show up in SRM to approve

  • are paid

• Process payment files

• Add payment information to the account spreadsheet

• Process month end

  • Ensure accruals are accurate each month prior to month end

• Upload payment information into the TEM

• Maintain account spreadsheet ensuring

  • All fields with calculations have calculations

  • Monthly calculations are updated each month

  • LBE numbers are updated once LBE is closed

  • LBE numbers are tracked for each LBE

• Open all physical mail

  • Determine if it belongs to you/team

    • If it does not, find out who it belongs to

    • If you still don’t know, provide back to admin

  • Determine what needs to happen with it

• Complete vendor management tasks to ensure vendor information is current and up-to-date to avoid or fix payment issues

• Complete seed templates to set up new billing accounts

• Work with TEM vendor for all invoice issues

• Liaison between the voice/network teams and Finance to ensure all accounts are forecasted/budgeted appropriately

• Review the moves, add, changes, and disconnects to ensure the services were updated, added or removed from the invoices

• Understanding the forecast/LBE process

• Understand what new services are coming and when

• Understand how the new services will affect the forecast

• Working with Finance and Business to adjust forecast in each LBE if needed

• Work with Provisioning team to ensure the MACD process is closed

• PO/POCN Process

• Creation of Purchase order/Purchase order change notifications (POCN)

• Understand what the budget is and how much POs need to be created for

• Understand the cost centers and what PO goes against what cost center

• Understand who owns each cost center

• Understand PO/POCN Process from beginning to end

• Create the appropriate documentation

• Get the appropriate documentation/approvals from other teams, if needed

• Know and understand timelines

• Ask questions when necessary

• Escalate any issues when necessary

• Work through time constraints

• Record time in Powersteering

• Complete ISOTrain as you receive them

• Documenting processes

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $57,300.00 – $114,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.