JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Opportunity
A healthy heart is essential to good health. That's why we're committed to advancing treatments for people with cardiovascular disease. As a global leader in CARDIAC RHYTHM MANAGEMENT (CRM) Technologies, our breakthrough medical technologies help restore people's health so they can get back to living their best lives, faster. We focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.
We are recruiting for our next Finance Controller, CRM Germany to work onsite out of our office in the Hesse Region – Eschborn.
You will lead the financial agenda for Germany. This is a high-impact role at the heart of our business, offering full P&L responsibility and the opportunity to shape the future of our operations in the region.
Your Impact
As the Controller, you will:
• Serve as a trusted business partner to the Country Commercial Leader, driving financial performance and ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.
• Lead the value creation agenda in Germany, with a strong focus on commercial insight, scenario planning, and risk management.
• Play a pivotal role in the implementation of our new organizational structure, collaborating closely with both country and EMEA leadership.
• Provide strategic financial guidance on key business drivers including investments, recruitment, bonus plans, and project initiatives.
• Champion cross-functional collaboration, influencing beyond your formal scope to drive results across the matrix organization.
What You’ll Own
• Full P&L oversight for Germany, with deep involvement in all value drivers.
• Commercial risk management, ensuring transparency of risks and opportunities.
• Leadership of strategic projects that extend beyond finance, contributing to broader business success.
• A commitment to simplification and standardization, eliminating non-value-adding activities and streamlining processes.
Key Responsibilities
• Accountable for the development and the delivery of all LBE commitments during the year (process as well as content). Ensure strong operational discipline for all finance-driven processes across the organization.
• Lead FP&A team operationally and ensure talent development, good career path for top performers
• Ensure full financial compliance with all activities in scope.
• Identify needs to data to support decisions and drive the decision-making process, ideally to alternative options and scenarios. Enable the commercial leadership to think in the same structure and encourage them to reach out for help.
• Provide ongoing standard analysis on all levels of the P/L, mainly revenue, margin and operating expenses. The predominant focus should be on forward-looking analysis and risks/opportunities. Develop mitigation plans where needed to offset risks
• Beyond the standard, proactively drive new ways of looking at the results and
commitments. Closely collaborate with the country leadership team to drive value creation through FP&A work. Also identify specific projects together with the leadership team to further drive value creation.
• Utilize the benefits of the matrix. Take ownership on all tasks that directly influence the P/L and bring the experts to the table across expertise groups and functions.
• Support the broader controllership tasks and the needs of the specialist groups in commercially related tasks (internal audits, external audits, tax process changes, inventory management, etc.)
• Contribute to a timely dispute, cash discount and accounts receivable resolution by following-up and supporting the relevant HUB and commercial teams on the interface.
Key Requirements
• University degree, preferably in a Business or Finance/Accounting related discipline.
• MBA/CPA/CFA preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of finance/accounting experience, preferably in international environment
• Proven financial influencing skills at senior management level. Ability to drive change amongst peers and senior commercial leaders. Strong Business Partnering skills.
• Proven mastery on large data handling and tool-driven data analysis. Strong experiences with Excel and an established data-cube system and SAP capabilities are a plus.
• Fluent in English and German
• Sufficient accounting and compliance experience to set the tone to the overall organization (e.g. Big4 or Internal Audit experience)
• Visible passion for change management
• Team player within a matrix organization design
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, team management and communication skills
• Prior experience in a fast-paced environment / global organization experience
• Proactive mindset
• Good ability to influence
• Very strong analytical skills
Join Abbott today. Do Work That Matters
The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:Financial Planning and Analysis
DIVISION:CRM Cardiac Rhythm Management
LOCATION:Germany > Hesse : Helfmann - Park 7
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Not Applicable
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