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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Our location in Abbott Park, IL has an opportunity for a Business Analyst with Telecom Experience.

Responsibilities:

The responsivilities include but are not limited to

Overall management of vendor

Attend all vendor/business meetings

Manage vendor to ensure tasks are being completed, questions are being answered

Manage vendor issue logs

Escalate issues when necessary

Understand what services are paid and where the services reside

Understand what the services/service types mean and how they are billed

Processing monthly voice/network invoices from receiving the invoices to making sure they are paid

Ensuring all accounts are reconciled and paid on time

Work closely with vendors on invoicing issues

Ensure invoice is received

Review invoice in Tangoe to ensure invoice is accurate

Understand any invoice discrepancies

Add invoice information to the account spreadsheet

Review forecast to ensure PO is not overspent

Understand how current invoice affects forecast/budget

Monitor invoices to ensure they

are approved by all approvals

show up on the payment file

are processed by AP

show up in SRM to approve

are paid

Process payment files

Add payment information to the account spreadsheet

Process month end

Ensure accruals are accurate each month prior to month end

Upload payment information into the TEM

Maintain account spreadsheet ensuring

All fields with calculations have calculations

Monthly calculations are updated each month

LBE numbers are updated once LBE is closed

LBE numbers are tracked for each LBE

Open all physical mail

Determine if it belongs to you/team

If it does not, find out who it belongs to

If you still don’t know, provide back to admin

Determine what needs to happen with it

Complete vendor management tasks to ensure vendor information is current and up-to-date to avoid or fix payment issues

Complete seed templates to set up new billing accounts

Work with TEM vendor for all invoice issues

Liaison between the voice/network teams and Finance to ensure all accounts are forecasted/budgeted appropriately

Review the moves, add, changes, and disconnects to ensure the services were updated, added or removed from the invoices

Understanding the forecast/LBE process

Understand what new services are coming and when

Understand how the new services will affect the forecast

Working with Finance and Business to adjust forecast in each LBE if needed

Work with Provisioning team to ensure the MACD process is closed

PO/POCN Process

Creation of Purchase order/Purchase order change notifications (POCN)

Understand what the budget is and how much POs need to be created for

Understand the cost centers and what PO goes against what cost center

Understand who owns each cost center

Understand PO/POCN Process from beginning to end

Create the appropriate documentation

Get the appropriate documentation/approvals from other teams, if needed

Know and understand timelines

Ask questions when necessary

Escalate any issues when necessary

Work through time constraints

Record time in Powersteering

Complete ISOTrain as you receive them

Documenting processes

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $57,300.00 – $114,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.