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 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
** 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…