Finance Manager CALA

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.

Finance Manager CALA Working at Abbott At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

This position works out of our Hollywood, FL location in the Structural Heart division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease. This position provides financial leadership and oversight to enable execution of a wide range of financial and decision support responsibilities for Abbott Structural Heart across the CALA region. The incumbent will lead and participate in the short- and long-range planning and execution of CALA Structural Heart strategic and tactical initiatives. The position will partner with others across the CALA region, BU functions and Finance functions (such as CFS, Treasury, Global Trade compliance and other corporate functions) across the day to day activities of managing financial performance and enabling delivery of planned results through solid, timely and accurate execution of established strategies and tactics. This position will report directly to the Structural Heart DVP Controller, have significant interaction with CALA management and affiliate teams as well as members of the Structural Heart HQ finance team and corporate functions. Key Success Factors for Role Fiduciary and Stewardship Role Strong P&L management across integrated business.  Proactive assessment of likely opportunities / risk and initiate actions to leverage or mitigate where needed. Protects the assets and reputation of the company, maintaining the proper controls, integrity, and accuracy of financial records in compliance with regulations and policy Executive Presence and Leadership Articulates business opportunities, risks and recommendations to senior management. Demonstrates assertiveness and resilience to engage and challenge peers and business leader. Solid communication and interpersonal skills. Driver of Value Creation Ability to create value for Abbott along the end-to-end market channels (value chain.); Ability to leverage external insights and data points (competition, regulation, macroeconomic) to enhance business strategies and tactics. Understanding of the Divisional financial processes and how to leverage within CALA. Insightful, Forward-looking and Forecasting Expertise Proven ability to accurately forecast business results and to diagnose market and competitive trends. Effectively recognize business risks/detect early warnings signs. Ability to link strategy to driven-based forecasting, including development of KPI’s to monitor process towards end objectives. Strong analytical skills as well as critical thinking skills to identify and share