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A Day in the Life

This position reports to the Financial Planning & Analysis Senior Manager responsible for Volume FP&A and serves as a key member of the Global Operations and Supply Chain (GOSC) FP&A Volume team in Medtronic, with primary responsibility for partnering with the manufacturing platform. The Principal Financial Analyst is responsible for planning, analyzing, and reporting of volume KPIs. Provides coaching and mentorship to other team members. Assist with global volumes consolidation and financial analysis.

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

• Serve as the key FP&A contact for manufacturing sites across the region, focusing on volume KPIs, as part of the GOSC FP&A Volume Team.
• Lead the consolidation, review, and analysis of weekly volume KPIs for the region’s manufacturing sites. Investigate and understand drivers of variances (e.g., absorption, product mix) and proactively escalate concerns as needed.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and training to other Volume Team members. Review their work products and act as a team leader to support development and quality outcomes.
• Partner with the Data & Analytics team to ensure alignment between online reporting tools (e.g., Weekly Volume Absorption dashboards) and weekly manufacturing region’s volume reporting. Analyze and deliver insights from the reporting outputs.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Site Operations & Finance partners and Global Manufacturing FP&A teams to create analysis, processes, and presentation content that transform data into actionable stories influencing financial performance.
• Act as a proactive and strategic business partner to the manufacturing region Platform sites, delivering clear insights and a strong understanding of volume drivers, absorption trends, earned hours, production units, and more.
• Lead volume assumption planning (production units, earned hours, absorption, etc.) for the Annual Operating Plan and quarterly forecasts. Own detailed volume KPI planning in offline models, OneStream, and other tools as appropriate.
• Identify and communicate risks and opportunities to the forecast by analyzing expected changes and emerging trends.
• Support the development and implementation of best practices in Volume KPI planning, analysis, and reporting.
• Lead and support initiatives to identify, recommend, and implement process improvements and simplifications.
• Assist with global volumes consolidation and financial analysis in support of FP&A Volume team
• Complete ad-hoc analysis, special projects, and data preparation requests for internal customers, as needed.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes .
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager .
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.

Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results .
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation .
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area.
Implements solutions to problems.

Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels .
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.

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.

Key Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years of work experience in Finance and / or Accounting (Or Advanced Degree with 5+ years)
• Professional Accountancy qualification required e.g., ACCA, ACA, CPA, CIMA.
• Excellent communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence multiple diverse stakeholders, including with senior leadership.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills for creating actionable insights and analysis, especially variance analysis.
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple and conflicting deadlines and priorities.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a team environment and build strong working relationships across time zones & geographies.
• Extraordinary independent problem solving and strategic thinking abilities.
• Project Management and change management skills to leverage for solution implementation.
• Intermediate to Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with business intelligence and reporting systems would be an advantage.
• Navigate the complexities of working in a multiple financial system / multiple ERP / multiple currency environment.
• Manufacturing Finance support and / or Cost Accounting experience is strongly preferred. Focus on FP&A.

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.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here