Accounting Process Optimization Analyst

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Accounting Business Process team is an innovative, results-oriented team within the Corporate Accounting Department.  The Accounting Process Optimization Analyst will partner with business leaders, IT, Accounting, Finance peers, and teammates to drive process improvement efforts and new initiatives. The goal of this role is to understand pain points and gaps in the existing process, help strategize and analyze capabilities to improve existing processes, and make recommendations for solutions to enable and drive efficiency and quality across accounting and reporting process initiatives.

Essential Job Duties 

• Understand the Company’s core accounting and reporting processes, and how they translate into the need for efficient, repeatable, and scalable business processes
• Analyze existing processes, including documentation of existing and future flows. Recommend process improvements to address corporate priorities and objectives
• Support the design and execution of “to-be” processes or major enhancements; Work with IT and SME’s to define and implement and re-design core accounting processes – document and refine business requirements, assess testing scope, creation of test scenarios and test scripts, execute user acceptance testing, and execution of implementation plan
• Partner with Controllership team to determine and define optimal approach of conducting finance data analysis
• Facilitate trainings thru creation of business process documents to accelerate the use of new technology, or processes
• Evaluate metrics to evaluate project success rate against defined success criteria
• Draft desktop procedures/work instructions to support the successful implementation of new projects or initiatives
• Assess and document controls risk and changes to controls during project or enhancements implementation. Present changes to stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience 

• Experience and expertise across end-to-end business cycles (Accounting close process or others)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail oriented, organized, motivated and able to function in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and project management skills.
• Strong written documentation
• Ability to handle ambiguity effectively and oversee multiple projects at once.
• Must be willing/able to work onsite 3 days/week in our Sunnyvale, CA office

Required Education and Training

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance/Information Systems is required

Preferred Skills and Experience 

• A minimum 2+ years of experience related accounting or related field (experience in public accounting preferred)
• Microsoft Excel Automation tools (Alteryx, Power Query) is preferred
• SQL coding experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of controls processes and COSO framework preferred
• Knowledge of SAP (or other large ERP), Salesforce CPQ, and Tableau is preferred.

 

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Additional Information

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