Controller - Divisão de Farmacêuticos Estabelecidos (EPD) - São Paulo/SP

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Benefits such as Medical and Dental Assistance, Life Insurance, Private Pension Plan, Medication Subsidy, Discount on Abbott stock purchases, among others.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

• We offer flexible work policies that allow a healthy balance between personal and professional life

• We invest in the development of our employees through training and  growth opportunities

• We foster an environment where every voice is heard and valued

The Opportunity

This position works out of our São Paulo, Michigan Site at Brooklin in the Established Pharmaceutical Division (EPD).

We bring trusted, high-quality medicines to people in the world’s fastest-growing countries, with a broad portfolio of differentiated branded generics across key therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, cardiometabolic health, respiratory care, women’s health, pain management, and central nervous system disorders. We are also expanding access to biologic and biosimilar therapies—advanced treatments made from living cells—through strategic partnerships and a growing portfolio. Our biosimilars offer safe, effective, and more affordable alternatives to reference biologics, helping overcome barriers to care in oncology, immunology, and women’s health. By improving access in emerging markets, we support better outcomes for patients with serious chronic conditions.

The Controller is a key finance leadership position within EPD LATAM, reporting operationally to EPD BRAZIL General Manager and functionally to EPD LATAM Controller, being the leader who:

• Establishes the right processes to secure the needed internal control and deploys the needed leadership to ensure that the entire organization complies.

• Owns data management and business-financials analysis for underlying performance assessment and decision-making including resources - capital allocation and execution support.

• Partners cross functionally for action mobilization to deliver on challenging results.

• Provides strategic input to the business for sales volume acceleration and margins improvement.

• Leads end to end all planning cycles anticipating for the right action to protect and create value.

The Controller of BRAZIL EPD is a key leader that not only acts but lead cross functionally for the right fiduciary and stewardship mentality, provides accurate actuals business analysis, maximizes investments returns and ensures quality across the multiple relevant reporting locally and to the Region, also deploys the right due diligence for successful planning cycles, and the right partnership not only with the Sales and Marketing local organization but also with the regional functions to deliver on ambitious goals.

What You’ll Do

• Ensure integrity of financials; maintains sound internal controls and secure satisfactory audits.

• Partner cross functionally for insights, analysis, investment decision, and execution.

• Presents effectively financial and non-financial information to GM, Region and EPD leadership.

• Review Actuals P&L and Balance Sheet, understand underlying variances, take corrective actions, and manages risk and opportunities.

• Have in place the right governance and action for continuous margin improvement and ROI.

• Manages the process, content, and deliverables of the quarterly rolling LBE and support LTP process.

• Leads and develop his/her team for success and defines career development opportunities.

• Provides financial and strategic insights to Local-Region-Division Management on key business matters.

• Delivers high end financials forecast accuracy and supports improvement of the supply forecast.

• Successfully manages the annual cost change process ensuring assumptions quality and implications assessment.

• Is agile to function as PMO when needed, usually supporting Area Finance projects or Global Tools-Systems implementation.

• Understand the current and future business model of EPD. Including biologics, oncology portfolio and how they will impact in the affiliate

• Pro-active work with commercial and sales team. Visit customers, learn the market dynamics and how will financially add to the affiliate

• Support and challenge Revenue management initiatives

• Lead Class A implementation

Qualifications

Education:

• 4-5 years degree in accounting, business, finance, economics, or industrial engineering. Master’s in business or finance is preferred.

Experience:

• Ideally 10+ years of relevant finance experience aligned to the role expectations with proven track record in financial planning and analysis, business partnering, internal control and Finance leadership.

Skills and Competencies:

• Initiative, analytical thinking, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Financial planning and analysis capabilities and financial reporting and accounting competences

• Internal Control competences and Demand Planning capabilities

• Ability to communicate with others effectively and to manage complexity

• Teamwork and ability to build solid work relations across the organization

• Ability to develop his team

• Leadership and ability to challenge his own team and cross functionally for value creation

• Ability to facilitate interpretation and understanding of data

• Risk and Opportunities management

• Excel, Power Point, Data Management-Visualization and ERP skills to complete task.

• Ability to operate independently and under minimal supervision

• Ability to balance between the strategic perspective and relevant details orientation.

• Hands on individual who can quickly zoom out for the big picture and zoom in.

• ROI culture leader.

• Team management and team development.

• Fluency in English. Spanish highly desired.

Apply Now

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Financial Planning and Analysis

     

DIVISION:

EPD Established Pharma

        

LOCATION:

Brazil > Sao Paulo : Building 1

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable