Senior Finance Director – Global R&D Finance Center of Excellence; CoE Leader

A Day in the Life

We are seeking a strategic and transformational finance leader to serve as the Senior Finance Director for the Global R&D Finance Center of Excellence (CoE). The CoE is expected to grow and mature to support the full enterprise and this role will be instrumental in leading that transformation,
standing up the next phase of the model — driving expanded adoption of standardized financial planning, reporting, and decision support across enterprise R&D.

This leader will operate at the center of innovation—partnering closely with Portfolio and Operating Unit (OU) CFOs to accelerate adoption of CoE standards and ways of working
, ensuring consistency, scalability, and enterprise alignment. Supported by a global team of approximately +15 finance professionals and growing. This leader will lead the vision, define priorities, and drive execution of the CoE roadmap — ensuring the organization delivers today while building toward a more scalable, standardized future state.

Success in this role will require balancing transformation and execution — continuing to deliver high-quality outputs while embedding a more consistent, enterprise-wide model. The role will also partner closely with the Digital Transformation team on exciting new reporting, analytics and streamlined financial workflows.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

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

Enterprise Leadership & Strategy

• Lead and evolve the R&D Finance CoE operating model, driving enterprise-wide standardization and scalability
• Serve as a key finance partner to the Innovation leadership team
• Help to enable R&D investment strategies and standardized inputs to enterprise priorities and innovation goals

FP&A and Digital Transformation Reporting

• Oversee AOP and forecast processes across global R&D portfolios
• Drive adoption of standardized, dashboard-based reporting (e.g., Day 5 packages)
• Lead data governance, financial tagging, and systems integration (e.g., ENRICH, One Stream, Power BI)
• Enable real-time financial visibility and streamlined reporting processes

Operating Model Execution

• Lead transition of decentralized R&D finance teams into the CoE structure
• Strengthen collaboration between CoE and Operating Unit finance teams
• Balance enterprise consistency with portfolio-specific business needs

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across technology, clinical, and regulatory functions
• Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for executive decision-making

Governance & Performance Management

• Establish and maintain financial governance and accountability across R&D investments (labor rates, data tagging, and project planning).
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and decision-making frameworks

Global Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed finance team
• Build organizational capability in analytics, business partnering, and executive communication
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

• Bachelor’s Degree with 15+ years of work experience in Finance including FP&A and operations finance (Or Advanced Degree with 13+ years) plus 10+ years of managerial experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale transformation or centralized operating models
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders
• Experience supporting technology, R&D, clinical, or regulatory functions in a global organization
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing, international teams
• Enterprise mindset with the ability to think strategically and execute operationally
• Strong collaborator who builds trust across complex, matrixed organizations
• Decisive and…