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Finance Manager, US Therapeutics

AbbVie · North Chicago, IL · Full time · Finance

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

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Likely interview questions for this role

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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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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

The primary objective of this position is to provide financial leadership for the Global Latest Best Estimates (LBE) planning process for Commercial Controllership Organization. The position will be responsible for providing financial analysis, recommendations, and decision-making support. This position is responsible for supporting development and implementation of processes and procedures to facilitate accurate and timely consolidations of LBEs. Responsibilities • Lead global commercial financial planning and forecasting processes, ensuring timely and accurate business inputs. • Consolidate planning materials and deliver executive-ready financial summaries for senior stakeholders. • Guide business units through planning cycles, including timelines, guidance, assumption validation, and result consolidation. • Partner cross-functionally with finance, corporate, legal, R&D, operations, and global teams to align planning efforts. • Perform financial system tie-outs to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across planning outputs. • Maintain and improve planning templates, schedules, mock books, and supporting financial documentation. • Analyze performance against plan, prior forecasts, prior year, and other benchmarks to identify trends and variances. • Highlight key risks, opportunities, and business drivers to support informed management decision-making. • Prepare clear, actionable planning materials and presentations for leadership review. • Manage, coach, and develop finance team members while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. • 7+ years progressive accounting or finance experience • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required, • MBA or CPA preferred • Strong understanding of AbbVie financial planning processes • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Solid understanding of automated accounting systems such SAP and BPC. Skillful with Power BI or other data visualization tools. • Extremely proficient in Microsoft Office, primarily Excel and PowerPoint • Ability to solve business problems through the proactive identification of issues and subsequent collection, analysis, and interpretation of related data • Experience working independently as well as team environments and integrating activities across multiple functions / divisions • Ability to meet tight deadlines while balancing competing priorities • Ability to work well in a team environment and build strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders 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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