Financial Analyst

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.

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 Financial Analyst position works onsite out of our Santa Clara, CA location in the Structural Heart Division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life through the design and provision of device and management solutions for the treatment of structural heart disease.

What You’ll Work On

• Support month-end close process and reporting of monthly financial performance metrics on a timely and accurate basis.
• Prepare, consolidate, and analyze global LBE information to support deliverables during LBE/LBEC/Plan cycle.
• Partner with Commercial and Functional teams including Operations and Global Marketing to acquire information for reporting and variance analysis.
• Develop flexible, comprehensive tools and templates to support the consolidation and timely completion of Structural Heart BU, Medical Device Division and Corporate schedules as well as develop process improvements that meet the needs of the financial planning and reporting requirement.
• Analyze detailed financial forecasts incorporating historical results, trends, and current business/market information.
• Assist with executive presentation development and compilation.
• Supports Finance management on key projects and analysis.
• Perform Ad hoc requests for management, with data mining and presentation support.
• Back up for DHQ Senior Analyst.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years of full-time finance and/or accounting experience.
• Financial Software Proficiency
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of public accounting and/or internal audit experience preferred
• Robust working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Essbase.
• Medical device industry experience very helpful
• Experience with SAP, Business Objects and Hyperion Smartview/Essbase
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, variance analysis skills, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Cross-functional dialogue and strategy is essential.
  
  

The base pay for this position is $79,500.00 – $138,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.