Finance Manager, US Therapeutics
Posted Aug 14, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a planning cycle that went badly. What did you change the next time?
What they are checking: Process learning rather than blaming the calendar.
This role includes managing, coaching and developing finance team members. What does developing an analyst actually look like during a busy cycle?
What they are checking: Whether coaching survives contact with deadlines.
You would partner across finance, corporate, legal, research and development, operations and global teams. Tell me about getting an input from a function that does not think in financial terms.
What they are checking: Translation across functions, named directly in the duties.
This asks for seven or more years, prefers an MBA or CPA, and expects familiarity with AbbVie's own planning processes. It sits alongside several other finance manager roles posted at once. Why this one?
What they are checking: That they noticed the cluster and chose a seat deliberately.
What would you do
This role leads the global latest best estimate planning process for commercial controllership. How do you keep a global planning cycle on schedule when the inputs come from many business units?
What they are checking: Running a process across teams that do not report to them.
You would guide business units through planning cycles including assumption validation. How do you challenge an assumption that a business unit is confident about?
What they are checking: Professional skepticism applied to colleagues rather than numbers.
You maintain planning templates, schedules and mock books. How do you improve a template that people have built their own workarounds for?
What they are checking: Changing shared infrastructure without breaking everyone's process.
About the work
You would perform financial system tie-outs across SAP and BPC to ensure data accuracy and consistency. What kinds of breaks do you find most often, and what causes them?
What they are checking: Hands-on system reconciliation rather than a description of the concept.
How do you consolidate planning materials from many sources into an executive-ready summary without losing what matters?
What they are checking: Synthesis, which is the real deliverable of a consolidation role.
How do you distinguish a real risk to the forecast from a business unit being conservative?
What they are checking: Reading behavior behind the numbers, which is most of forecasting.
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