About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Abbott Ireland Financial Services Cherrywood Dublin

Abbott’s EMEA Finance Shared Services centre commenced operations in Cherrywood, Dublin in October 2015. From this location the Finance Shared Services provides processing and expertise, in local languages, to Abbott divisions and affiliate companies across EMEA. The core services are in Record to Report, Order to Cash, Source to Pay and Master data management. The Financial Shared Services hub is part of Corporate Finance and has regional counterparts in the US and in Singapore.

PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

We currently have a vacancy for a Senior Accountant who will work within the RTR team, looking after the European markets with our outsourced partners.

The successful candidate will join the Shared Services Centre based in Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsibility for the monthly general ledger close activities for US GAAP.

• Review and preparation of monthly reconciliations & journals to ensure high quality compliance with US GAAP.

• Complete SOX controls in line with control matrix.

• Oversight of outsourced business partner.

• Maintain and develop relationships with key stakeholders.

• Ensure timely completion of Internal and External audits.

• Perform analytics to ensure accuracy of financial information.

• Identify opportunities for improvement of processes to reduce costs.

• Provide input on an ad hoc basis for key stakeholders.

• Provide input and co-ordinate project.

EDUCATION & COMPETENCIES:

• Accounting Qualification – ACA, ACCA, CIMA.

• 3-5 years relevant experience – preferably with Shared Service Centre and multinational corporation background.

• SAP or other major ERP Systems experience is desirable.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

• Able to work alone to understand and summarise financial data into high quality, accurate and usable summaries.

• Strong computer skills especially MS Office.

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