Financial Consultant

Medtronic•Lafayette, MN

7d•Onsite

About The Position

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world. A Day in the Life The Endoscopy Operating Unit has created a business out of disrupting the status quo in the detection, prevention, and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers and chronic diseases. We’ve done this by commercializing transformational technologies that improve patient management and standards of care while increasing access to our innovations worldwide. This is a Finance Consultant role reporting to the VP of Finance in the Endoscopy OU. This is an onsite role that needs to sit at one of these locations: Santa Clara, CA; Mounds View, MN; or Lafayette, CO

Requirements

Must Have Bachelor’s degree required
Minimum of 10 years of finance experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 8 years of finance experience

Nice To Haves

MBA and financial systems implementation experience.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Strong quantitative analysis and problem-solving skills, and high degree of initiative and influence management skills.
Successful track record of supervising a diverse financial team.
Business partnering: Identifies a broad range of business issues and provides leadership in the decision-making process, actively participates in managing the business and establishing its strategic direction.
Finance and accounting knowledge: Demonstrates a broad and in-depth understanding of Accounting and Finance. Understands, interprets, and applies accounting principles and processes to ensure compliance with legal, business accounting, and ethical standards.
Financial analysis: Organizes and structures business information to identify specific risks and opportunities. Applies quantitative and qualitative factors, skills and business experience, to arrive at meaningful conclusions and recommendations. Develops innovative alternatives and solutions when issues arise.
Internal controls: Understands and effectively applies internal control principles and objectives, including Medtronic's Key Corporate Policies.
Planning & reporting: Accurately monitors and projects the organization's financial performance. Provides performance measures and interprets results in view of plans and objectives.
Professional effectiveness/ Leadership competencies: Ability to operate within a complex organization. Strong influence management skills demonstrate superior judgment, shape business results, inspire others to excel, communicate with impact, demand ethical behavior, and drive execution.
Ensure the quality policy/system is planned, understood, implemented and maintained by ensuring compliance within the department.
Ensure departmental compliance as well as appropriate departmental resources are available to effectively maintain the quality system (people, facilities, tools, and training).
Flexible, friendly, team-oriented disposition that thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Strong results orientation and bias for action, including a high degree of initiative and self-motivation in understanding business needs and leading others to meet those needs.
Demonstrated ability and success working with minimal supervision, including flexibility to changing priorities in a proactive and self-motivated manner.
Successful track record developing and retaining outstanding Finance talent.
CPA, CFA or other professional

Responsibilities

As a key member of the executive team, you will provide financial leadership to grow the business and drive profitability.
Lead the financial planning and analysis activities for Endoscopy Operating Unit (OU)
Closely interact with OU President and CFO to determine optimal capital allocation of Portfolio funding, deliver recap of financial performance, and provide support for other executive presentations.
Generates forecasts and analyzes P&L, Balance Sheet and market trends.
Interpret and analyze actual financial performance versus plan or forecast, providing variance analyses and actively researching root causes of variances assessing risks and opportunities.
Lead and oversee FP&A staff driving process improvement, standardization and productivity projects across OU
Work with OU CFO to ensure achievement of monthly or quarterly financial commitments.
Organize solutions when issues arise.
Structure business information on a global basis to identify specific risks and opportunities.
Apply quantitative and qualitative factors, skills and business experience to arrive at meaningful conclusions and recommendations.
Develop innovative alternatives.
Develop and direct oversight of FP&A Center of Excellence at the Portfolio, providing standardized templates, data submissions, select functional support, and key metric reporting on behalf of the OU structure
Actively participate in helping provide guidance and process support across the OUs while also functioning as a key liaison with the Global/Corporate teams.
Understand and effectively apply internal control principles and objectives, including Medtronic's Key Corporate Policies.
Ability to operate within a complex organization.
Strong influence management skills, demonstrate superior judgment, shape business results, inspire others to excel, communicate with impact, demand ethical behavior, and drive execution.
Ensure the quality policy/system is planned, understood, implemented and maintained by ensuring compliance within the department.
Ensure departmental compliance as well as appropriate departmental resources are available to effectively maintain the quality system (people, facilities, tools, and training).

Benefits

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
Health, Dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
Life insurance
Long-term disability leave
Dependent daycare spending account
Tuition assistance/reimbursement
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
Incentive plans
401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
Short-term disability
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement (subject to IRS earning minimums)
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)