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 113,000 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 6,000 people across ten 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 Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbott’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry-leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for the treatment and management of diseases and other conditions. IDEM is an over a billion-dollar business unit that now support significate growth for Abbott in COVID-19 related products in over 70+ countries.

Responsibilities will include

• The provision of accounting services including transaction processing, general accounting and reporting.

• Ability to quickly establish credibility and engage with external and internal stakeholders at all levels.

• Possess strong technical accounting knowledge.

• Manage on-site and remote working teams.

• Ability to lead relevant projects within current day to day role.

• Responsible for standardizing and implementing policies & procedures to drive compliance, efficiency and improved business productivity.

• Establish and implement appropriate internal controls and accounting policies in areas such as Revenue Recognition.

• Build strong collaborative working relationships with local and US teams.

• Responsible for communicating and implementing policies, operational controls and procedures to ensure an efficient and accurate service to customers across the region.

• Contribution to the definition of service standards and continuous management of service level agreements.

• Financial Analysis, including month end review of business unit performance.

Requirements

• 5+ years post qualification experience (PQE) in a multi-national environment.

• A big-4 trained and qualified Accountant ACA, CIMA, ACCA with a Bachelors Degree.

• Knowledge of US GAAP, FRS102 and IFRS.

• Strong analytical capability and an ability to appreciate the commercial impact of accounting issues.

• Knowledge of SAP / SAGE ERP systems is essential.

• A high degree of integrity and personal ethics is required.

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An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com