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The Opportunity

This position works out of our Westford, MA A location in the Abbott Vascular Division.  Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.  Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive, and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease.

What You’ll Work On

The Sr. Manager FP&A provides leadership oversight, coordination and planning, in order to execute financial planning
processes, including priority setting and ensuring the timeliness, accuracy and integrity of financial information while also
performing original work related to Division and Corporate templates/schedules. This role is also responsible for delivering
analytics and business support to enable informed decision making by executive staff as well as presentation worthy
performance summaries to be shared with senior leaders across the Corporation.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain controls to ensure the integrity of assets and compliance with applicable policies, procedures and guidelines; interpret financial results, evaluate risks of alternatives, recommend actions and develop strategies to address various scenarios.
• Manage month-end accounting activities to ensure availability of timely, well-presented, quality P&L, balance sheet, sales
  results, etc.
• Prepare financial reports (such as Plans, LBE's and long range projections) that meet the timing and quality of presentation requirements, facilitating management review and decision making while ensuring integrity of data and compliance with GAAP as well as Abbott's operating policies.
• Develop flexible, comprehensive tools to support program proposals and tracking focused on ROI and fully-burdened margin profitability as well as developing system solutions and process improvements that meet the needs of the financial planning and/or reporting requirements.
• Develop and maintain a financial organization capable of meeting Division and Corporate requirements, including but not limited to mobilizing staff to work in teams, facilitate teamwork to increase quality and productivity, assume direct
  responsibility for results, empower others while maintaining high performance standards; responsible for staff development, mentoring, performance management, engagement and recognition, administrative duties, etc;
• Establish and maintain and effective and efficient planning process for the division and operational functions being
  supported, including coordination of a planning calendar with key dates and deliverables.
• Prepare and coordinate monthly S&OP financial processes and presentation of Executive S&OP package to Sr. Staff.
• Ensure EHS goals are established and achieved. Promote adherence to EHS policies, procedures, rules and regulations. Recognize EHS achievements across the organization. Ensure departmental employees receive EHS training.
• Responible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the Quality System.
• This position is accountable for the following: 1) implementation of strategy, scope, process and programs related to financial planning and/or reporting 2) providing significant and positive impact to short-term, mid-range and long-term organizational goals. 3) demonstrating continual improvement in financial planning and/or reporting. 4) creating a work environment that supports cross-functional team effectiveness. 5) management and development of reporting staff; mentor others as appropriate
• Demonstrated appropriate level of leadership experience to lead and influence.Requires high levels of competence, confidence and credibility. Strategic and tactical decisions will be made based upon data the individual provides and/or presents in a management or informal setting. Consequences of erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally include critical delays andmodifications to projects or operations

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a related field 
• 8+ years equivalent combination of education and work experience in business, accounting, or financial planning and analysis
• Diverse financial experience including factory cost, operations support, FP&A, general accounting, and project support.
• Experience at the management level in finance managing people. Strong leadership and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or MBA strongly preferred.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Candidate/incumbent should possess the following:
• ability to clearly, concisely and accurately communicate with others through various means
• ability to interact with finance and non-finance professionals at all levels;
• ability or aptitude to supervise others
• ability to form and develop interpersonal, professional relationships; displays socially and professionally appropriate behavior
• ability to work independently and in groups
• demonstrated initiative, analytical thinking, critical-thinking, problem solving skills
• ability to operate independently and in groups
• demonstrated initiative, analytical thinking, critical-thinking, problem-solving skills
• ability to operate independently with broad scope of responsibility under minimal supervision and underchallenging time constraints;
• ability to facilitate interpretation and understanding of data, identify risks, develop recommendations and implement solutions
• ability or aptitude to utilize computer software applications to complete tasks.

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