Financial Accountant Cash Accounting, EMEA

at  Medtronic

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
Do you have a passion for accounting or finance, coupled with strong IT skills? Do you have practical experience in bank and cash reconciliations? We offer you a role where you will be responsible for timely and accurate cash accounting for EMEA entities.

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

• Primarily responsible for timely and accurate maintenance of daily Autobank cash transactions in SAP for EMEA entities
• Responsible for timely and accurate execution of month end close activities and associated reconciliations.
• Delivery of key performance objectives for cash accounting team including timely clearing of open cash items.
• Preparation/review of weekly ageing report and distribution to internal stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal and external audit members on any relevant audit issues.
• Deal effectively with queries from external and internal stakeholders and resolve queries in a timely, professional manner, escalating issues where necessary.
• Investigate and reply to cash related queries raised by external and internal stakeholders, including monitoring the shared inbox.
• Identify and describe areas where problems and inefficiencies may be systemic in nature.
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement initiatives for the cash accounting function, department and systems related to area of responsibility.
• Assist Accounting Supervisor/Finance Manager/Finance Director with ad-hoc tasks and projects.

Must Haves

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• 2-3 years working experience in Accounting, Finance or Auditing
• Strong IT skills, particularly Excel with an understanding of VLOOKUP’s, pivot tables and data manipulation/review. Experience working with SAP ERP
• Practical experience in bank and cash reconciliations. Displays an understanding of cash accounting with a willingness to get involved in a range of areas across the Finance department
• English fluently written and spoken. Good communication skills
• Builds rapport with colleagues and develops positive working relationships
• Results-driven, team player, ability to learn quickly and have flexibility to work in a changing environment
• Takes responsibility to identify and mitigate problems as and when necessary

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 90,000+ 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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• Primarily responsible for timely and accurate maintenance of daily Autobank cash transactions in SAP for EMEA entities
• Responsible for timely and accurate execution of month end close activities and associated reconciliations.
• Delivery of key performance objectives for cash accounting team including timely clearing of open cash items.
• Preparation/review of weekly ageing report and distribution to internal stakeholders.
• Liaise with internal and external audit members on any relevant audit issues.
• Deal effectively with queries from external and internal stakeholders and resolve queries in a timely, professional manner, escalating issues where necessary.
• Investigate and reply to cash related queries raised by external and internal stakeholders, including monitoring the shared inbox.
• Identify and describe areas where problems and inefficiencies may be systemic in nature.
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement initiatives for the cash accounting function, department and systems related to area of responsibility.
• Assist Accounting Supervisor/Finance Manager/Finance Director with ad-hoc tasks and projects