About the role
AI summarisedThis is a senior finance analyst role at Abbott, a healthcare company, supporting the Singapore affiliate. The position involves financial planning and analysis, business partnering, month-end close, RLBE process, and driving process improvement within the finance workstream.
HealthcareFull-timeGeneral
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure timely and accurate recording of financial information, including preparation of variance analysis against Rolling Latest Best Estimate (RLBE) and Plan.
- Perform monthly reconciliation of Actuals vs. RLBE / Plan to identify performance gaps, analyze root causes, and propose mitigation actions.
- Monitor SG&A spending to ensure robust spending governance and continuous alignment with the commercial team.
- Lead real-time financial performance monitoring, proactively identifying issues and escalating them to management with recommended actions.
- Prepare periodic financial reports, dashboards, and analytical insights for management review.
- Ensure timely distribution of cost center reports to all corresponding budget owners and provide support in understanding variances.
- Conduct regular (minimum quarterly) Balance Sheet reviews to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with accounting standards.
- Support the overall planning and budgeting cycle for the ANI Singapore Affiliate.
- Prepare required schedules (including SG&A templates, Brand P&L, and Channel P&L) in coordination with Area/Division teams.
- Develop Balance Sheet schedules in support of forecasting and planning requirements.
- Prepare load files for Planful, ensuring alignment between system data and management expectations, and verifying the accuracy of uploaded figures.
- Provide oversight to ensure integrity of pricing maintenance in system.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) / business partnering with strong financial understanding and modeling skills.
- Experience in Audit or Big Four would be advantageous.
- Strong financial acumen with proven business partnering experience, able to translate strategic goals and business initiatives into clear financial insights that support decision‑making and performance delivery.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across functional departments and influence without authority.
- Solid understanding of global business processes, including experience working within multinational or matrix organizations.
- Advanced analytical thinking, with the ability to break down complex information and simplify processes to drive efficiency and clarity.
- Continuous improvement mindset, consistently identifying opportunities to enhance processes, strengthen controls, and improve operational efficiency.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, financial modeling, and automation of recurring tasks.