THE OPPORTUNITY

We are recruiting for a Finance Controller to join OUR RAPID DIAGNOSTICS – TOXICOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS. As a Finance Controller you would be based in ABBOTT’S SITE IN ABINGDON, Oxfordshire and would report to the Business Unit Controller.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/PROFILE

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA)
• Substantial post qualification experience (PQE)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential
• Strong computer skills especially MS Office (Advanced Excel skills essential)
• Able to interact with key stakeholders at a senior level
• Experience of Hyperion and SAP is an advantage
• Teamwork
• Achieving results ethically
  As you’d expect from an innovative global health care company, we offer a competitive range of benefits including excellent salaries, a class-leading defined contribution pension scheme, private healthcare, life assurance and a flexible benefits scheme.
  Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. Joining us, you can shape your career as you shape the future of healthcare.
  With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next-generation diagnostics, life-changing devices, science-based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health.

BRING YOUR PASSION, IDEAS AND PURPOSE TO LIFE IN A COMPANY THAT CAN TRULY HELP YOU ACHIEVE YOUR FULL POTENTIAL.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other conditions.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

As a Finance Controller you will be the finance leader for the Toxicology International Services Division as part of the International Services Leadership Team.
This is a high-profile position, providing financial reporting for the Toxicology Senior Leadership Team, including the Divisional Vice President (DVP) and Business Unit Controller. You will be a key partner to the International Services General Manager, to provide high quality financial insight and preparation for meetings with senior leadership. This includes Exec S&OP, RLBE reviews and monthly business reviews, along with key project outputs on significant ongoing projects.
The role will be a key voice within the Leadership Team as well as providing financial leadership to a business which spans multiple geographies, and is complex both internally (commercial, manufacturing, lab and customer operations and R&D) and externally (customers in multiple sectors), in a period of change and pressure on profitability.
In this role you will manage a team of 3 direct reports, and you will be responsible for managing contributions from finance shared service centres, outsourced providers, and other indirect reports.

More specifically:

• Ensure the production of accurate, timely and insightful financial reporting to key stakeholders to support decision making.
• Management of a high performing FP&A team, with a focus on key talent development.
• Management of completion and improvement of the daily, monthly and weekly revenue reporting to support commercial growth and inform accurate revenue projections.
• Review of month end results and oversight of key balance sheet items, building relationships with accounting teams responsible for effective collaboration and communication required for accurate forecasting and risk management.
• Provide insightful and commercial pricing support to the Commercial team, applying appropriate pricing governance.
• Lead the financial planning process, including managing delivery of business modelling, budgeting & forecasting and timely submissions within the RLBE process.
• Production and monitoring of KPIs.
• Responsible for financial oversight of key capital investments and business change projects to ensure spending remains within approved requirements, and any risks are communicated effectively.