Sr FP&A Manager, Asia Region Finance

Summary of Job Description:

The Senior Finance Manager is a strategic business partner to the Asia Vice President and Asia Finance Director, providing expert financial planning, analysis and decision support across the region. The role proactively identifies business improvement opportunities, challenges assumptions and translates financial information into clear insights and recommendations for senior management.

Leading a team of two direct reports, this position offers significant opportunities for people development and high-level interaction with the Asia management team, affiliate leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Financial Planning & Analysis - Forecasting Cycles (Budget/Update/LRP/LBE)

. Partner with affiliate country heads and finance leaders to develop financial plans for their respective markets.

. Lead and coordinate Asia forecasting cycles, including Plan, Monthly Latest Best Estimate (LBE) and Long-Range Planning (LRP), ensuring alignment with Global HQ guidance.

. Consolidate inputs from affiliates and therapeutic area leads to develop the Asia forecast.

. Identify trends, challenge business assumptions and ensure forecasts are reasonable, well documented and supported by a clear financial narrative.

. Prepare narratives, presentations and supporting materials for senior management meetings and business reviews.

. Lead the Asia FP&A community, driving process improvements and supporting initiatives led by the Asia Vice President.

Monthly Regional S&OP Process

. Coordinate, maintain and drive an efficient monthly regional Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process.

. Partner with local affiliate teams and the Area Supply Chain team to assess and challenge financial assumptions.

. Ensure financial projections are supported by robust assumptions related to in-market sales, to-market sales and inventory levels.

. Provide an independent financial perspective to support effective regional decision-making.

Financial Reporting & Analysis - Actuals Reporting

. Lead the preparation of monthly financial reporting, dashboards and management information.

. Drive delivery of timely, accurate and relevant financial data to support business decisions.

. Clearly communicate financial results, including sales and expenses, through effective variance analysis and commentary.

. Present key insights and trends to Area and senior management.

Subject matter expert

. Serve as a subject matter expert for relevant financial systems and processes.

. Maintain a strong understanding of AbbVie methodologies for calculating price and exchange-rate variances.

. Train and support affiliate finance teams on financial systems, processes and methodologies as required.

. Promote consistent and effective use of financial tools and reporting standards across the region.

. Projects:

. Develop ad-hoc analysis and relevant financial information to facilitate senior management's decisions in commercial strategies and resource allocations.

. Continuously identify and recommend areas for improvements. Drive change management and implement initiatives to optimize and automate processes.

. Lead initiatives and Corporate/ Area/region projects including Forecast Horizon Implementation, Process Improvements through AI and S&OP Transformation

Education/Experience Required:

. Undergraduate Degree in a Finance related field, either Finance/Accounting.

. Minimum prior experience of +8 years in FP&A and/or Commercial Finance within the Pharma/Medical Device industry.

. Experience in working within a matrix, MNC environment.

. Excellent Excel (inclusive of Macros), PowerPoint skills and being conversant with various systems SAP, BPC (SAP business planning and consolidation), Power BI and the AI applications.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

. Strong initiative, work ethic and ownership, with the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

. Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.

. The ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all organizational levels and across multiple functions and markets.

. A highly analytical, inquisitive and strategic mindset.

. The ability to develop innovative and creative solutions to complex business challenges.

. Strong data-management skills, including the ability to work with large datasets.

. Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities efficiently while meeting time-sensitive deadlines.

. Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate and develop team members and build a high-performing team.

. A collaborative, customer-oriented approach to working with colleagues and business partners.