Senior Financial Analyst – Global Supply Chain FP&A

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
Medtronic’s Supply Chain is at the heart of the company, focused on ensuring the right product is in the right place at the right time to meet our customer’s and patient’s needs. The Supply Chain Function is responsible for balancing supply and demand across the organization; ensuring we have the optimized amount of inventory to meet worldwide demand for Medtronic’s vast array of businesses and products.
This position reports to the Supply Chain FP&A Sr. Manager and will partner with multiple stakeholders to provide timely analysis, insightful guidance, and financial leadership to the Supply Chain teams. This role requires cross-functional partnership with various supply chain, finance, and regional teams to implement best practices, build capabilities and drive improvement across the supply chain Functional Expense cycle, including expense and headcount management/forecasting/reporting.
This position is a hybrid role at Fridley, MN (OHQ).

NICE TO HAVE

• Strong leadership, business partnering and influencing skills; has strong ability to partner with senior leadership and others and builds relationship networks at all levels
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results
• Ability to balance detail and big picture
• Drive for continuous improvement including the ability to innovate and simplify both finance and operational processes
• Ability to think big (strategically) and dive deep (tactically)
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Experience with Medtronic financial systems: SAP, Global Planning System (GPS)/Cost Center Planning Tool (CCP), and Essbase/Hyperion
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage financial models for business forecasting, variance analysis, trend/driver analysis, and problem solving
• Desire to learn and to develop for future opportunities and job growth
• Ability to travel less than 10%
  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.
  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):
  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).
  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 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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  It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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• Perform financial planning and analysis (FP&A) activities to support quarterly forecasts and annual planning (AOP) for Overhead Functional expense and headcount
• Own the headquarters Global Supply Chain cost centers process. Complete monthly/quarterly/annual financial reporting, analyzing results, identifying issues, and explaining trends and variances to plan and forecast; providing insights to business partners and other stakeholders that helps draw connections between accounts to drive action and business results.
• Proactively identify areas of risks and opportunities.
• Business partner by working closely with leaders to forecast, analyze, communicate, and understand business drivers/results.
• Consult with various cross-functional team members and be a thought partner on complex business issues and analytical opportunities across Supply Chain / GO&SC FP&A
• Partnering with the Data Analytics and Insights team on Cost Center Reporting development and/or optimization. Including roll out of dashboard training to GSC and being expert/though leader on dashboards.
• Own and coordinate execution of annual GSC’s EBIT Neutral process in conjunction with Corporate guidance during Annual Operating Plan
• Bring a mindset of continuous improvement to all aspects of the job, including recurring processes and stand-alone project