Fp&a Manager

**FP&A Manager - Structural Heart** **Colombia Abbott Colombia**

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 103,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

**Position Summary**:
We are currently recruiting for an experienced, highly capable **FP&A Manager** to support Abbott’s Structural Heart (SH) division in Colombia. This position is a key value-added role within Structural Heart (SH) Operations Finance that partners with various levels of leadership to drive financial ownership, cost efficiency, and business excellence. You will be responsible for complex financial planning, forecasting, and reporting for the business. Additionally, you be providing standard cost analysis, manufacturing network strategy, and business excellence and process improvement.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Consolidate financials from global manufacturing sites and divisional cost centers and provide succinct, effective communication to leadership on business performance to identify opportunities and drive improvement. The scope of financials includes month-end close results, quarterly forecasts, and annual Plan and Standard Costs.
- Develop budgets and forecasts in support of the annual Plan and quarterly LBE for Division cost centers. Perform variance analysis and identify key drivers in support of business decisions. Conduct regular financial reviews with business partners to communicate financial performance and business issues; provide valuable insight to influence businesses to achieve financial goals.
- Participate in the monthly closing process including P&L preparation, spend/headcount review, variance analyses, and reporting of month-end results to management.
- Provide ad-hoc analyses to support complex decision-making within global manufacturing operations, and present executive recommendations to management and business leaders; serve as financial lead in cross-functional team environments.
- Lead ad hoc projects to identify opportunities for continuous process improvement and business excellence.
- Supervise and provide guidance to analysts as needed.

**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related discipline.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting and/or financial planning and analysis experience
- Advanced level of proficiency with Excel (e.g. Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, other Excel functionalities)
- Proficient with Word and PowerPoint
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate to all levels of the organization.
- Ability to articulate financial results based on audience.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- MBA, Master in Finance, related discipline.
- 3+ years’ experience in finance, financial planning, and related disciplines.
- Medical device experience is a plus.
- Strong experience with SAP ERP and Hyperion Planning/Essbase systems.