Financial Analyst 1st shift Columbus Plant

at  Abbott Laboratories

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.

• Responsible for financial planning, reporting and analysis.
• Prepares financial plans and forecasts based on performance expectations.
• Support the development of standard product costing, after proper verification of routings, bills of materials and components costs, including review for reasonableness. Prepare cost estimates as required.
• Gathers and publishes financial information related to historical, current, and future performance.
• Performs financial analysis utilizing appropriate financial concepts and techniques.
• Recommends alternative courses of action.
• Develop detailed financial forecasts incorporating historic, trended and current business information.
• Monitor functional and departmental spending versus budget by highlighting material variances using system generated detail and trend reports.
• Prepare journal entries and assist in month end close as needed to ensure proper accounting.
• Prepare and distribute financial reports and packages by gathering and analyzing information related to current performance.
• Develop and utilize sound financial processes.
• May demonstrate basic project management skills by acting as a project lead on small, well defined projects.
• Influence exerted at peer level and occasionally at first levels of management.
• Plans, organizes, and prioritizes own daily work routine to meet established schedule.
• Exercises authority and judgment within defined limits to determine appropriate action.
• Receives limited supervision on standard issues, and detailed instructions on new assignments. Work is reviewed for soundness of judgment, overall adequacy and accuracy.