About Abbott
 

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
 

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 will have access to:

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

• Amazing health and wellness benefits and perks.

• 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.
   

Our Neuromodulation business includes implantable devices compatible with mobile technology to help people who suffer from chronic pain and movement disorders. These non-opioid therapies allow us to provide interventional pain therapy to patients throughout the pain continuum

Overview

This is an 8 month maternity leave contract.  As a Finance Business Partner, the Senior FP&A Analyst will act in a controllership role for ANZ, working closely with the ANZ Country Manager to drive growth in topline and bottom line, take P&L ownership and drive sound financial processes & discipline to support sustainable growth in the business.

Responsibilities

• Lead sales forecast call during the weekly Australia Leadership Meeting. H/she has to be able to call out key drivers of growth/decline, key trends, validate forecasts, flag out risk, actively using data/key metrics to facilitate discussion between Country Manager, Marketing and the Regional Sales Managers.
   

• Prepare and Present clear & meaningful sales report, revenue dashboards/trend charts, key leading indicators to ANZ & APAC management vs key benchmarks (Prior Year/Plan/Latest Best Estimate/Market performance) to drive visibility and strong business understanding.
   

• Gathering important commercial data and compiling it into reports business leaders can use to drive fact-based decisions – with focus on forward looking analysis to drive risk/opportunity identification. (eg. Procedure data, automate, streamline)
   

• Drive new innovations in the finance space through the maintaining/development of Power BI dashboards/functions where applicable.
   

• Responsible for Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis of the ANZ commercial division with ownership of full Profit & Loss (P&L) based on key benchmarks (Prior Year Plan/Latest Best Estimate/Market performance).
   

• Perform in depth reviews and variance analysis on key P&L line items such as Revenue, Gross Margin, Operating expenses and Division Margin.
   

• Demonstrate proactive ownership in a problem-solving approach to issues/tasks to drive accountability within the organisation such as providing proposals to Country Manager to aid appropriate courses of action.
   

• Lead Quarterly LBE/Business Review processes with Country Manager and prepare loading of financial forecast into the Dodeca system.
   

• Support annual territory planning and set up annual quota for the ANZ commercial team.
   

• Perform Incentive accrual and Incentive payment calculations.
   

• Own the accuracy and completeness of the sales reporting system that is relied upon by the sales force to see both actual results but also Targets.

• Prepare and Load Quotas into sales reporting system to allow Variance analysis by reps; assist in filling up quota template for Neurosmart.
   

• Helps to develop business cases for market expansions and product launches by running financial scenarios (e.g. revenues, profitability etc)
   

• Ability to work with and coordinate effectively with and leading cross divisional/functional teams related to markets with controller responsibility, specifically customer services, Commercial, CFS/HUB Accounting, Compliance, Audit, AP/AR, IT.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor of Accounting or Finance

• CPA or CA qualified