Financial Consultant

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on - 21 Mar 2026

 

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 LifeThe 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

Key Responsibilities Include
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.

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 Have

• 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

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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 interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.

U.S. Work Authorization & Sponsorship

At Medtronic, we are committed to fostering an environment where employees can thrive and make a meaningful impact. In alignment with our enterprise-wide workforce planning approach, U.S. work authorization sponsorship (H-1B, TN, J, etc.) is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above, where specialized expertise aligns with long-term business needs. Roles below the Principal level require candidates to possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization at the time of hire and for the duration of employment.

Join us in our mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life—where your unique background and perspective are valued.

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.
 

Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$149,600.00 - $224,400.00

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).

 

The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).

 

Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns.  Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.

 

Further details are available at the link below:

Medtronic benefits and compensation plans

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.

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