Principal Analyst, Finance Transformation

Principal Analyst, Finance Transformation (Finance) Company Description

It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive
. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care
, our technologies— the da Vinci surgical system and Ion
— have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.

We're a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.

The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful — because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.

If you're ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare
, you'll find your purpose here.

The role is a part of the Finance Transformation team within the accounting department. The Finance Transformation team is responsible for global business processes, strategic projects and process improvement initiatives. The role requires working closely with functional leaders, identify and address process gaps, implement best practices, implement and manage SOX controls, lead finance work streams on large projects working closely with IT, and overall help improve efficiency, quality, and timeliness of our financial transaction processing and reporting.

• Develop functional roadmap collaborating with key stakeholders, conduct periodic review and publish updated roadmaps. Develop deep process expertise in assigned areas.
• Collaborate with functional teams to understand process gaps, identify opportunities for process improvement, leverage best practices and deliver process improvement initiatives.
• Develop metrics to measure process effectiveness, enable ongoing metrics measurement and reporting, conduct periodic reviews with stakeholders and use metrics to drive operational efficiencies.
• Represent the finance function on cross functional IT projects - Lead finance work stream, develop user requirements collaborating with stakeholders, perform business testing, develop operating procedures, manage deployment, and ensure realization of business value.
• Create project plans, detailed workplans, test scoping and definition, identify functional interdependencies, training, and communication plans.
• Prioritize and manage systems issues working with IT and provide updates to stakeholders.
• Review system changes for impact to finance business processes/finance impact analysis.
• Evaluate projects/system changes for SOX impact and scope out necessary SOX testing/ controls updates working with compliance teams.
• Perform data analysis, reporting needed to enable process improvement.
• Work collaboratively across functions (various business functions, IT, Enterprise Analytics)

• Minimum of 7 years of management consulting, professional services and/ or comparable industry experience, working in the finance function / finance projects.
• Experience across end-to-end business processes or operational experience in a finance role. Working knowledge of Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Inventory transactions essential.
• Excellent planning, organizing and communication skills.
• Self-driven, willingness to learn new areas and work collaboratively.
• Experience with enterprise systems such as SAP ERP, accounting systems, reporting systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working on at least one large, life cycle project in a finance role.
• Advanced Excel skills are essential, working knowledge of Visio/Lucid chart, PowerPoint required.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or equivalent. MBA/CPA is a plus.

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• In depth experience working with any large ERP system. 2+ years of SAP experience preferred.
• Experience working…