Manager, Finance - Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance; RAQA)

• Full-time
• Shift: Day
• Max. Salary Region 2: 196100 USD
• Max. Salary Region 1: 230700 USD
• Ways of Working:
  Onsite
  - This job is fully onsite.
• Employee Type:
  Employee
• Min. Salary Region 1: 160300 USD
• Global Job Level (HCM):
  Management 3, Mgr (12)
• Min. Salary Region 2: 136300 USD

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—like 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 Finance Manager will be the lead finance partner to Intuitive's Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
(RAQA) leadership teams, including Regulatory Affairs, Product Quality, Post Market Survey (PMS), Quality
Systems and Compliance (QS&C), and Compliance Audits.

This role is responsible for financial planning, strategic and economic decision support, expense and headcount management, performance reporting, and data-driven business insights for the RAQA organization.

The Manager will lead 2 Analysts in supporting these functions and will work closely with partners across Finance, Global Operations, Services, and other cross-functional organizations.

The Manager will lead, grow, empower, and inspire team members and collaborate across the broader Finance
organization to enable Intuitive's strategic, operational, quality, and financial goals.

• Lead month-end close, quarterly forecasting, annual budgeting, and related financial planning processes across all RAQA functions, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and strong business ownership.
• Deliver a thorough and thoughtful 3-year Long Range Model (LRM3) that links functional priorities, resource requirements, strategic investments, and productivity opportunities to enterprise objectives.
• Serve as a trusted strategic finance partner to RAQA leadership by translating business priorities into financial implications, resource allocation choices, risks, and actionable recommendations.
• Lead workforce and expense planning, including headcount reconciliation, hiring plans, attrition, open requisitions, and investment phasing, with clear visibility for functional leadership.
• Create financial and scenario models to support key investment decisions. Establish expected outcomes and rigorously assess return on investment and post-implementation performance.
• Provide in-depth analysis of actual spending, commitments, and remaining budget to identify trends,emerging risks, investment capacity, and opportunities to optimize cost and resource deployment
• Partner with Regulatory Affairs leaders to support Global Expansion, including financial planning, scenario analysis, resource requirements, and investment trade-offs associated with regulatory readiness and market expansion priorities.
• Partner with Product Quality leadership and the Global Operations Finance team on new manufacturing site development.
• Collaborate with Operations Finance and Services…