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AbbVie Senior Finance Manager, Ukraine & CIS (UCIS) in Kyiv, Ukraine
Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
Position Summary
A wide-ranging finance role, providing business partnering for senior staff within the Ukraine & CIS (“UCIS”) region and responsible for statutory accounting, financial reporting and control for Allergan Aesthetics in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Belarus reporting to the Central and Eastern Europe (“CEE”) Region Director, Finance.
Key Duties / Responsibilities
Role: Tax, Treasury and Risk policies (5%)
Oversee Bank accounts and Cash management, Tax and Capex procedures.
Ensure appropriate financial risk, accounting and auditing policies and procedures of the Company are followed.
Ensure proper management of overall Taxation matters.
Oversee the Treasury function to ensure cash flow for the business is secured.
Develop a “Contingency Planning” approach to managing operational risks
Responsible for Audit:
In charge of relationships with local auditors, financial corporate and official bodies.
Work through Internal Audit and develop best-practice Corporate Governance standards.
Track compliance with Group and Corporate Governance policies.
Drive an effective Audit function, including both External and Internal audits.
Role: Statutory Accounting & US GAAP Accounting (25%)
Working with AbbVie FSS, liaison with 3rd Pary Accounting provider to ensure local statutory financial, tax accounting & reporting, payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable processing services are provided as agreed.
Ensuring that the Company’s books comply with applicable accounting and tax laws.
Supervision of the annual management of the financial reports, VAT and CIT calculations in accordance with local accounting rules.
Ensuring proper financial control in accordance with the applicable rules.
Supervision of local transfer pricing policy, development and monitoring of the Company's profitability model based on the Group's guidelines.
Supervision of the Company's goods warehouse.
Supervision of the General Ledger and the closing process of the month – the control of reserves to ensure the correctness of management accounts on a monthly basis (ensure compliance with USGAAP in main ledger and local GAAP in special ledger).
Application and adherence to company policies and procedures regarding general ledger and US GAAP.
Supervision of the AP process (obligations) the flow and acceptance of invoices, ensuring compliance of the process with the company's obligations to procurement policy.
Role: Financial Planning and Analysis (25%)
Working closely with the UCIS Commercial managers and UCIS Country Manager, develop and consolidate all financial and business planning activities, including Latest Business Estimates (“LBE”), Plan and Long-Range Plan (“LRP”) information for the Allergan Aesthetics (“AA”) P&L, including detailed sales and cost build-up within UCIS;
Work with the UCIS leadership team to consolidate and present to UCIS Region management the LBEs, Plans and LRP.
For UCIS submissions, challenge and evaluate all business projections and forecasts for accuracy, acceptability and conformance to strategic objectives, understand the underlying assumptions and the variability of key business drivers.
With the UCIS Leadership team, identify risks and opportunities in achieving quarterly and full year objectives, including developing contingency plans and implementing actions to ensure divisional margin objectives are achieved.
Provide UCIS Region Management with analytical commentary on results versus plan and LBE, highlighting trends and variances in both sales and costs, assisting management in the formulation of action plans to develop opportunities or correct deviations.
Maintain and develop sales trending and reporting together with management of promotional and other variable budgets to support country and regional commercial teams.
Role: Business Partnering and Commercial (35%)
Become a trusted business partner to the UCIS leadership team and the wider the UCIS Region, providing effective management reporting, analysis and insights.
Provide support to the UCIS management team concerning day-to-day and ad hoc operational business issues .
Develop expense trackers for the management of spend and achievement vs LBEs and Plan. Partner with the business to ensure accurate and appropriate recording of expenses.
Recommend and drive control process improvements.
Act as a member of the UCIS Leadership Team.
Role: Leading Team & People Development (10%)
Coach and develop direct reports, set goals, conduct succession planning, execute performance management agenda in order to align people performance to business goals, business KPIs and to maximize business opportunities.
Ensures the team acts as support business as true business partners
Ensures all necessary reports from the team are prepared in the required format and at the timely manner.
Qualifications
Master degree or equivalent
Qualified accountant with strong systems and Excel skills
At least 5 years’ relevant experience in a multinational company with a focus on commercial accounting /reporting
Strong time management and analytical skills; well organised and able to prioritise during time-pressured periods
Capable of working on own initiative, and meeting tight deadlines with a high degree of accuracy / attention to detail
Ability to communicate professionally and clearly in English
Ability to build positive working relationships, be responsive and proactive
Must have strong business acumen.
Additional Information
AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.