Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution · Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
We have an immediate opportunity for a Global Process Manager- RTR in our Ireland, Dublin: Cherrywood location as part of the CFS RTR Global Process team
The Global Process Manager is responsible for the global process design and governance for selected sub-process areas within Record to Report (RTR), with emphasis on global process standardization and optimization across the business. This role supports RTR process transformation and implementation of multidivisional enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enabling technologies to optimize the RTR process.
A key focus area for this role will be advancing the Abbott ERP roadmap and supporting the Director, Record to Report for related program deliverables and process leadership for select process areas. This may include support for any of the RTR topic areas such as General Ledger, Controlling, Intercompany, Banking, Costing and Inventory Accounting, Fixed Assets, Project
Systems, or integrated topics across process teams.
This role will drive RTR business delivery for relevant ERP initiatives across all stages including requirements, design, change management, data conversion, testing, training, business cutover, and Hypercare. Additionally, this role is key for ongoing gatekeeping of the global template and related sustainability for relevant processes and systems
This role must be able to build consensus within the respective functional process area as well as across functional process areas when required. This includes influencing without direct authority across towers, divisions and geographies.
This position must be viewed as a process leader supporting CFS and other business stakeholders; requires interaction and collaboration across functions and geographies as new processes are deployed and/or existing processes re-engineered.
What You'll Work On:
Within the Global Process Organization (GPO), act as the global point of contact for respective sub-process areas and provide leadership and process expertise for relevant initiatives.
Advance the Abbott ERP roadmap, as part of or supporting program teams, driving global standards and supporting deployments
Drive process adoption and related sustainability for implemented global processes and related systems
Drive end to end process governance, working towards global processes and global standards
Lead and monitor process transformation and continuous improvement initiatives related to respective sub-process areas including process standardization, simplification, and technology innovation
Work collectively and collaboratively with global and regional teams within and across their functional area as part of a matrixed organization; partner and maintain strong working relationships across CFS, divisional and corporate business partners, BTS, and other organizations and customers
Drive the development and maintenance of documentation for harmonized global processes
Drive recommendations to advance the CFS Target Operating Model
Ensure adequate and timely root cause analysis to understand problem drivers and implementation of necessary corrections and/or changes
Establish key global metrics and monitor to measure effectiveness of continuous improvement and identification of additional improvement opportunities
Contribute to long range strategic planning by providing insight into process area growth projections and/or improvement strategies
Support development and preparation of solid business cases for identified continuous improvement initiatives outlining business value in alignment with the overall strategy
Drive process automation and intelligent solutions including robotics for the supported process area.
Be a trusted advisor to CFS leadership on respective sub-process areas
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
Minimum 10 Years Experience
Accounting Certification ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent required
Experience executing process transformation initiatives or delivering enterprise systems
In-depth understanding of SAP or other major ERP systems capabilities
Direct experience or exposure to finance and accounting processes, with strong accounting acumen
High degree of attention to detail and ability to understand complex processes, combined with ability to summarize and convey big picture.
Strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills
High degree of organizational and time management skills, with ability to handle multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
Ability to collaborate in a cross functional global team across multiple levels
Strong written, verbal and presentation skills
Travel required 15% +
Preferred Qualifications:
Direct experience with process harmonization, standardization, or continuous improvement activities
Experience in multiple process areas beyond RTR desirable i.e. PTP, OTC
Program and project management experience
FP&A experience desirable
CPA desirable, MBA and /or PMP a plus
Lean Six Sigma desirable
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