Business Process Lead FP&A Transformation

Intuitive•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Business Process Lead, FP&A Transformation is the enterprise process owner for how forecasting is designed, executed, and continuously improved at Intuitive. This high-impact individual contributor leads the transformation of legacy, manual, and fragmented workflows into a simpler, faster, and more accurate forecasting operating model. Working with FP&A leadership across the organization, the role translates business needs into scalable processes, aligns stakeholders, pilots improvements, and drives sustained adoption. The successful candidate is a systems thinker, process architect, and change leader who creates clarity in ambiguity, challenges unnecessary complexity, and connects process design to measurable outcomes. Success is reflected in a forecasting model that is faster, simpler, more accurate, well governed, and consistently adopted across FP&A. The role requires working onsite in Intuitive’s Sunnyvale, California office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week. A bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Operations, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field is required. The position may be filled at a different job level depending on business need and the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge, and skills. Compensation will be based primarily on the job level and the candidate’s qualifications. Intuitive states that it provides market-competitive compensation packages, including base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity; the posting does not specify a compensation range.

Requirements

At least 8 years of progressive experience in business process excellence, finance transformation, FP&A operations, or a related discipline.
Experience partnering with Data, Systems, or Technology teams without directly owning technical delivery.
Success leading enterprise-scale process redesign from diagnosis through future-state design, pilot, rollout, and adoption.
Expertise with AI/ML-enabled forecasting and responsible integration of model outputs into financial processes.
Experience translating ambiguous problems into process blueprints, RACIs, decision gates, requirements, and prioritized roadmaps.
Lean Six Sigma, BPM, Design Thinking, or formal change management training or certification.
Proficiency with process-mapping tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or Miro.
Hands-on experience facilitating process mapping and cross-functional working sessions.
Executive communication skills for VP- and C-suite audiences.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Operations, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or a related field.
Ability to work onsite in the Sunnyvale, California office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week.

Nice To Haves

FP&A transformation experience, including forecasting operating model redesign, planning-cycle optimization, or driver-based planning.
Ability to influence without authority across senior leaders, business owners, and technical teams.
Strong analytical capabilities and experience evaluating transformation outcomes.
Experience in a publicly traded technology or medical-device company and a SOX-compliant environment.

Responsibilities

Map end-to-end forecasting workflows, handoffs, decision points, rework loops, and elapsed-time gaps.
Identify root causes related to ownership, decision rights, data readiness, calendar design, and manual workarounds.
Design the future-state operating model, including workflow sequencing, inputs and outputs, decision gates, escalation paths, and integration points.
Build a transformation roadmap that sequences process, data, and automation opportunities by value, feasibility, risk, readiness, and dependencies.
Facilitate prioritization decisions with Finance leadership and communicate trade-offs clearly.
Design and lead pilots with defined scope, success measures, timelines, and learning objectives.
Measure outcomes, refine approaches, and scale proven changes while maintaining process integrity.
Track adoption and outcomes using measures such as cycle time, rework, compliance, engagement, and forecast accuracy trends.
Establish feedback loops and governance to sustain improvements.
Challenge the current state and transform the forecast process.