Job Description

About AbbVie
AbbVies mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on peoples lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, womens health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Purpose:

This position is responsible for end to end strategy and execution of architectural solutions for the Enterprise Finance Global Tax function. This resource will:

* Conceive, design, engineer, and implement data and software solutions that solve significant scientific or business problems
* Generate new proposals and lead those efforts. Investigate, identify, and implement stateof-the-art technology platforms that drive productivity and efficiency gains in own function and throughout multiple business areas
* Act as a lead in his/her area of expertise and critically evaluate relevant technological advances and integrate this knowledge into new business technology solutions

Primary Responsibilites:

* Implement architectural solutions for projects related to Global Tax (e.g. operational transfer pricing, provisioning, direct tax compliance, data wrangling & analytics, RPA, OCR, ML, etc)
* Partner cross-functionally with senior Global Tax leadership, Finance Data Hub and Master Data Management Teams, Enterprise Architecture team, and vendors to ensure architecture is in line with business strategies and needs.
* Effectively function as a principle architect, generating new technological proposals and leading those efforts. Anticipate and critically evaluate technological advances or competitive threats and respond with appropriate new strategies.
* Demonstrate creative 'out of the box' thinking to solve difficult problems and champion new technologies to achieve project goals.
* Independently responsible for technology within his/her area of expertise on multiple projects. Demonstrate mastery across a wide range of data and software engineering, including data warehousing, data integration, data visualization and analysis, software development, statistics, and machine learning.
* Demonstrate deep knowledge of the pharmaceutical business, and utilize this knowledge in the rapid advancement of agile, impactful, and cost-effective solutions
* Recognized and sought out as an expert in his/her discipline within the company and possibly externally.
* Shapes relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, and industry peers in accordance with Abbvie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization.
* May mentor/supervise a team of one or more and guide and evaluate the performance of those individuals; is accountable for the effective performance of the team/individuals.
* Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications
Qualifications:

* Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years of experience in application program development. Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
* Extensive experience in design, strategy, and /or architecting of Finance applications (e.g. SAP R2R, Tax applications, etc)
* Requires indepth knowledge of the systems development life cycle, client areas functions and systems, and systems application program development technological alternatives.

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
Yes, 10 % of the Time
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
M
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis 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, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.