Job Information
AbbVie Cost Analyst in Westport, Ireland
Company Description
AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
The purpose of the Snr Cost Accountant is to create and maintain plant standard costs in SAP for the global internal and external manufacturing network and to be a subject matter expert for global Operations SAP financial and costing functions and ensure consistency and optimize cost accounting practices across the AbbVie plant network.
This role will be base at our Westport site and will be 12 month FTC position
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain standard costs in SAP across manufacturing plants with the AbbVie Europe network.
Support holistic analysis of plant information by creating reports that consolidate spend and volume data from SAP.
Provide critical data and support to site finance business-facing teams.
Promote process standardization throughout the plant network, including Budgets, Forecast, LRP and Month End Reporting.
Actively seek practices that will improve accounting processes and efficiencies.
Ensure compliance with relevant governmental agencies, EHS and quality.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or Business Administration.
Four years of experience as a cost accountant in a multinational manufacturing environment.
Direct SAP experience with general knowledge of support programs and third-party system applications.
Expertise in cost accounting principles for manufacturing and corporate accounting practices and accounting theories required.
Customer-focused, able to provide outstanding service to the plant assigned.
Strong Excel, Word, and PowerPoint experience.
Strong communication time management skills.
Additional Information
AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.