We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 16 May 2025

 

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

Location: Preferably at a Medtronic Location, but remote work is considered. Other remote locations will be considered for candidates within commuting distance of a Medtronic site. This position follows a hybrid work schedule, being on-site in the office 3-4 days a week.

About Medtronic: A career at Medtronic is like no other. We are purposeful, committed, and driven by our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for millions worldwide. We can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations—but success requires the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.


The Operations Innovations Finance team is looking for a Principal Financial Analyst who will primarily focus on business partnering within a Strategic Program within the organization. This role provides unique experiences such as being part of a global team, collaborating with business partners throughout the company, and gaining visibility to senior and executive leadership while gaining insights into various processes and functions across Medtronic.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Provide decision support to the leadership of the Operations Innovation strategic program, becoming a subject matter expert regarding all strategic processes.

• Supporting cross-functional project teams with scenario modelling, NPV/ROI analysis, and strategic recommendations.

• Drive/Implement/Support continuous improvements in the reporting processes enabling focus on value creation activities

• Support the annual planning and quarterly forecasting processes.

• Ensure Non-Gaap compliance rules and controls are actively working

• Support Cost Center planning (i.e. Resources, Investments, Projects, Capital)

• Drive the monthly/quarterly fiduciary reporting of OPC results, cost down metrics and capital investments.  

• Support presentations of financial results at MOR, business reviews and Global Townhall meetings to senior leadership as well as the larger business partner base.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

May have broad knowledge of project management. Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years of work experience in Finance and/or Accounting (Or Advanced Degree with 5+ years)

Nice to Have 

• Process standardization

• Expertise in Microsoft Office, especially advanced Excel modeling experience and PowerPoint. This includes creating pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, SUMIFS, NPV/IRR, and other complex functions. 

• Experience operating in a complex matrixed environment and interacting across levels and organizations. 

• Good judgment, problem-solving skills, tact, and discretion in identifying and resolving issues within established guidelines. 

• Strong communication, interpersonal, and influence management skills. 

• Experience dealing with ambiguity. 

• MBA or Advanced Degree. 

• Operations Finance experience. 

• Cost Accounting experience. 

• Knowledge of SAP and Hyperion. 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to in