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Finance Manager, APS Portfolio Copay Center of Excellence (COE)

AbbVie · Mettawa, IL · Full time · Finance

Posted Aug 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a forecast you got wrong and what you learned about the underlying business.

What they are checking: Learning from a miss rather than defending the method.

This is based in Mettawa supporting a center of excellence rather than a brand. What appeals to you about that, and what would you want to know about how the center is measured?

What they are checking: That they understand the difference and ask how success is defined.

What would you do

You would provide scenario analysis and investment decision support for patient services initiatives. Walk me through how you would evaluate whether a support program is worth its cost.

What they are checking: Framing a return on an activity whose benefit is partly non-financial.

The posting emphasizes accuracy, predictability and clarity in management reporting. If those three conflict, which gives?

What they are checking: Whether they have thought about the tradeoff or just repeat the words.

How do you explain a spend variance to a patient services team that thinks in patients rather than dollars?

What they are checking: Communicating finance to a mission-driven partner.

About the work

This role supports the Patient Services portfolio and the copay center of excellence. What drives copay program spend, and what makes it hard to forecast?

What they are checking: Real understanding of copay economics rather than general expense forecasting.

You would build forecasts covering profit and loss expenses, program spend and headcount. How do you forecast a program whose cost depends on patient behavior?

What they are checking: Modeling demand-driven spend, the specific challenge here.

Copay support sits close to legal and compliance boundaries in pharmaceuticals. How does that affect how you model and describe program spend?

What they are checking: Awareness that these programs operate inside rules, not just budgets.

You support the monthly close including accruals and variance commentary. How do you set an accrual for a program where the final claims are not in yet?

What they are checking: Accrual judgment on genuinely uncertain amounts.

What would you look at to tell whether a copay program is being used the way it was designed to be?

What they are checking: Analytical curiosity about program behavior, not just totals.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

The Manager, APS Portfolio Finance supports the Patient Services Portfolio and Copay Center of Excellence (COE) by overseeing financial planning and analysis, reporting, monthly close support, and business decision support across patient support and copay programs. This role partners with Patient Services and Copay COE stakeholders to ensure accurate planning, forecasting, variance analysis, and budget management. The position is responsible for coaching and developing one direct report. Responsibilities • Partner with Patient Services and Copay COE teams to develop accurate LBE, Plan, LRP forecasts including P&L expenses, program spend, and headcount. Understand key business drivers and propose solutions that support approved budgets and portfolio priorities. • Provide relevant variance analysis for each planning cycle and develop meaningful management reporting, ensuring accuracy, predictability, and clear communication of results, risks, opportunities, and key metrics. • Support the monthly close process to ensure complete, accurate, and timely actual results, including review of expenses, accruals, variance commentary, and management reporting packages for patient services and copay activities. • Provide routine financial guidance and business decision support for patient services and copay initiatives, including scenario analysis, investment trade-off support, and recommendations that enable informed decision-making. • Review and approve financial activity such as purchase order requests, invoices, accruals, and other spend-related transactions in compliance with financial policies and controls. • Support key projects and process improvements for the Patient Services Portfolio and Copay COE, including planning standardization, reporting optimization, financial controls, and ad hoc analyses as required. • Manage one direct report, providing coaching, prioritization, feedback, and development support to ensure timely, high-quality work product and continued growth. • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required. • 7-10 years of progressive finance/accounting experience with focus on FP&A and Capital management required. • 2+ years of people management/supervisory experience required. • Advanced Excel skills (financial modeling, pivot tables, complex formulas). • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills. • Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills. • Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing requirements. • Ability to work collaboratively within teams, influence without authority, and interact with both technical and business partners. • Experience with SAP or equivalent ERP system. Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​ • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​ • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​ • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​ AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

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