Senior Accountant

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
• 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

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL location supporting our Abbott Nutrition Corporate Financial Services business.

As the Senior Accountant, Abbott Nutrition Corporate Financial Services (CFS) Record to Report (RTR) you will be responsible to prepare journal entries, prepare monthly consolidated reporting packages and other analysis supporting the Nutrition division; serve as liaison between our Shared Service Third Party provider, FP&A and CFS RTR; and drive process improvements. The Senior Accountant will perform accounting related work as well as financial reporting. The Senior Accountant will assist the ANHQ FP&A team with various reporting requests.

What You’ll Work On

• Complete monthly consolidated reporting packages - Profit Review Package, MRP and SRP for Abbott Nutrition.
• Liaise with FP&A, CFS, and other Americas Hub team members to execute the financial close, provide guidance, and work together to improve processes.
• Perform ad hoc request as requested by management including creating new reporting to increase management visibility into business performance.
• Prepare analysis for CFS journal entries.
• Provide guidance to Shared Service Third Party Accounting colleagues.
• Review and assist in maintenance of Third Party Shared Services Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Utilize SAP, Cognos and HFM to view documents and account balances, run reports, analyze and utilize data for analytics.
• Efficiently complete Microsoft Excel spreadsheets including pivot tables, vlookups, conditional formatting, and analysis of data.
• Main liaison to supervise transactional close for Puerto Rico entity.
• Complete external and internal audits and Sox requests.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and provide support for SOX and internal audit.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures including CFMs.
• Elevate issues and recommend solutions.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for global systems (HFM/SAP).
• Operate independently within a varied and changing scope of responsibilities under some supervision.
• Complete special projects as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance and/or Business or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years related work experience.
• SAP and HFM experience preferred.

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The base pay for this position is

$78,000.00 - $156,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

Accounting & Reporting

DIVISION:

IFO International Finance

LOCATION:

United States > Abbott Park : AP06A

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf