Associate Director

Purpose:

This is a financial leadership role within the Aesthetics US finance team accountable for the overall financial management, planning, reporting and analysis for the Body Contouring business and partner with Sales & Marketing to achieve short-term and long-term objectives for the business.

Responsibilities:

• Directly lead the Finance team including commercial analytics, consisting of 2 individuals
• Drive forecasting, planning, and reporting for the CoolSculpting business
• Partner with Sales and Marketing and other functions to develop topline and expense budgets and track performance vs. targets
• Lead initiatives to improve overall efficiency and effectiveness of finance processes & resource allocation. Examples include development of automated financial reporting packages, improving forecast accuracy for variable costs, unit/revenue forecasting, and identification/improvement of manual or ineffective processes to develop a fully connected P&L forecast
• Oversee the development, administration of commission plans for the sales force and financial modeling to ensure commission expense matches revenue targets
• Drive the revenue forecast and reporting process, including daily/monthly/quarterly reporting, alignment and coordination of the unit demand forecast to drive the manufacturing build plan, in-quarter revenue tracking and analysis, and all revenue and customer-based analytics
• Support and drive integration efforts, including alignment of structure to AGN SAP, integration to BPC and Longview, and transition of relevant activities/processes to the international Finance groups
• Coordinate various spend initiatives and assist with capital resource allocation decisions
• Analyze headcount and related expenses as well as DME by category and S&M spend
• Month-end close activities such as expense accruals, reserve analyses and balance sheet reconciliations
• Harmonize accounting, systems, and processes as appropriate and develop standard ad hoc queries
• Support segment financial consolidation reporting, submissions to Corporate, and respond timely to other company priorities and requests including mid-quarter updates
• Partner with international finance teams to develop and provide global CoolSculpting financial results

Requirements

• Requires 7-10 years progressive accounting or finance experience.
• This position requires an individual with the ability and desire to proactively search out and evaluate business problems and opportunities
• Capability to direct efforts to achieve answers and results
• Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis, and interpretation of related data
• Demonstrated problem solving and analysis within a broad framework of AbbVie’s financial policies (CFMs), and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Preferred: MBA in Accounting or Finance and/or CPA/CMA
• Preferred: Multi-division experience and knowledge of the financial planning process
• Preferred: Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such as TM1, desktop productivity and mainframe accounting applications

Key Stakeholders:

The Finance Associate Director will interact with several Vice Presidents within the Medical Aesthetics organization included but not limited to, VP of Digital, VP of Sales Ops, VP of Sales, VP of Finance amongst others.