Associate Director, Finance

North Chicago, IL

• Function: Corporate
• Job Type: Full-time

Job ID: R00130927
Company Description
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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
Job Description
Purpose
The primary focus of this position, as part of the Finance Shared Services (FSS) organisation is to provide support to the Procure to Pay (PTP) Global Process Lead in the sub process areas of Vendor Management, bank Verification, Supplier Relationship Management workflow (SRM) Requesting and Approvals, Receiving Goods & Services, Travel & Expense and Payables as AbbVie moves to standardized global processes supported by one ERP system (SAP). The role has a crucial responsibility in keeping over 13,000 current (2025 census) PTP users informed about key areas of the process and system functionality, upcoming enhancements. The role will have direct reports to manage.

Responsibilities

• Heads the Process Lead part of the overall FSS Procure to Pay team
• Acts as delegate for the Global Process Lead, PTP in time of business travel and out of office events
• Leads the identification of process improvement opportunities in the PTP process area
• Drives prompt maintenance of all PTP Standard Operating Procedures and Country Variants post an enhancement that impacts them
• Leads integration projects end to end using Smartsheet methodology
• Leads the Local Key User team – providing regular updates on upcoming enhancements, impacts of changes and go live activities
• Leads prioritization of PTP ERP enhancement requests and support tickets with BTS PTP SAP technical team, Finance Shared Services teams (e.g. Record to Report (RTR)) and other key functional teams.
• Engages functions outside of FSS in all changes to the PTP operating model – Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Corporate Headquarter Functions, Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC).
• Supports the Design, Build, Test and Rollout phases of Project Genesis – the Procurement Transformation project that includes the SRM workflow replacement build into the current S4 HANA platform – as well as the deployment of Tonkean as the Demand Intake Solution and Coupa applications in the Sourcing, Contracting, Supplier Onboarding and Supplier Portal areas.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Requires 8-10 years progressive accounting or finance experience.
• Knowledge of the end to end Source to Pay processes – but you don’t need a full comprehensive understanding.
• The ability to interact with and support senior level management and to partner effectively and independently in a matrix organization
• Ability to drive, influence and manage change
• Project Management using Smartsheets
• Knowledge of S4 HANA – key PTP system attributes, roles and functions
• Knowledge of Coupa procurement applications and Demand Intake solutions
• Strong organizational, analytical, problem solving, planning and decision making skills and ability to work independently.
• Extensive interpersonal skills and excellent verbal and written communication skills, including a high energy level.
• The ability to manage and coordinate multiple activities and shifting priorities under tight timeframes.
• A highly motivated self-starter who can translate broad directions into high quality analytical output.
• Open to new ideas, creative and utilizes value-added principles in approach.
• People Leading skills in the ways of AbbVie Leadership

Preferred Qualifications:
Prefer experience in Finance and Procurement
Previous internal audit and/or SOX compliance experience is a plus
Education Requirements:
BA/BS in Finance or Accounting. MBA/CPA preferred.
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 short-term incentive programs.
• 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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• Heads the Process Lead part of the overall FSS Procure to Pay team
• Acts as delegate for the Global Process Lead, PTP in time of business travel and out of office events
• Leads the identification of process improvement opportunities in the PTP process area
• Drives prompt maintenance of all PTP Standard Operating Procedures and Country Variants post an enhancement that impacts them
• Leads integration projects end to end using Smartsheet methodology
• Leads the Local Key User team – providing regular updates on upcoming enhancements, impacts of changes and go live activities
• Leads prioritization of PTP ERP enhancement requests and support tickets with BTS PTP SAP technical team, Finance Shared Services teams (e.g. Record to Report (RTR)) and other key functional teams.
• Engages functions outside of FSS in all changes to the PTP operating model – Tax, Treasury, Procurement, Corporate Headquarter Functions, Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC).
• Supports the Design, Build, Test and Rollout phases of Project Genesis – the Procurement Transformation project that includes the SRM workflow replacement build into the current S4 HANA platform – as well as the deployment of Tonkean as the Demand Intake Solution and Coupa applications in the Sourcing, Contracting, Supplier Onboarding and Supplier Portal areas