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About the Role

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex business problems, leading cross-functional projects, leveraging technology and automation tools, and driving measurable business outcomes. The Principal Financial Analyst will play a critical role in identifying opportunities, building scalable solutions, and helping transform the way Finance operates globally. This aligns with the organization’s vision of simplifying global processes, expanding best-in-class technologies, and creating capacity for strategic value-added work.

Responsibilities

Lead and execute enterprise-wide automation and continuous improvement initiatives that transform financial processes, enhance operational efficiency, and create measurable business value across the Global Supply Chain Finance organization.
Identify, prioritize, and deliver high-impact opportunities to eliminate manual activities, streamline workflows, strengthen controls, and increase organizational productivity.
Partner strategically with Supply Chain Finance, FP&A, Operations, Supply Chain, and Digital Technology leaders to define business requirements, align priorities, and implement scalable, sustainable solutions.
Design, develop, and deploy automated reporting, interactive dashboards, data models, and workflow solutions that improve visibility, accelerate decision-making, and enhance business performance.
Champion the adoption of emerging technologies, including AI, robotic process automation (RPA), advanced analytics, and digital tools, to modernize finance processes and elevate decision support capabilities.
Build compelling business cases and implementation strategies that secure stakeholder alignment, prioritize investments, and accelerate value realization.
Lead process discovery, process mapping, root-cause analysis, and solution design workshops to uncover inefficiencies, solve complex business challenges, and drive transformational change.
Measure, track, and communicate business impact, ensuring project benefits are realized and sustained while providing regular updates to finance and business leadership.
Drive global process standardization and governance by establishing consistent financial processes, reporting frameworks, and best practices across regions and operating units.
Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on automation, continuous improvement, financial systems, and process optimization methodologies.
Lead change management and adoption efforts by developing training strategies, driving stakeholder engagement, and ensuring successful integration of new tools and processes.
Influence and align cross-functional stakeholders across a complex global organization to remove barriers, accelerate execution, and deliver strategic business outcomes.
Challenge existing processes and champion innovation by continuously identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, accuracy, and organizational effectiveness.
Drive a culture of continuous improvement and digital transformation, empowering teams to embrace new technologies and ways of working that enhance business performance.
Own project delivery from concept through implementation, ensuring initiatives are completed on time, within scope, and with measurable business impact.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
Minimum of 7 years of relevant Finance, FP&A, Operations Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Consulting, Business Transformation, or Continuous Improvement experience.
Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Tableau, Alteryx, Redwood, Power Platform, SQL, Python, Snowflake, or similar analytics tools.
Strong financial planning and analysis background, including forecasting, planning, financial modeling, and business case development.
Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
Experience working with ERP systems and enterprise financial data.
For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.
U.S. work authorization sponsorship is offered exclusively for Principal-level roles and above.

Skills

Automation
Continuous Improvement
Financial Processes
Operational Efficiency
Business Value
Manual Activity Elimination
Workflow Streamlining
Controls Strengthening
Organizational Productivity
Business Requirements Definition
Scalable Solutions
Sustainable Solutions
Automated Reporting
Interactive Dashboards
Data Models
Workflow Solutions
Visibility Improvement
Decision-Making Acceleration
Business Performance Enhancement
Emerging Technologies
AI
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Advanced Analytics
Digital Tools
Finance Process Modernization
Decision Support
Business Cases
Implementation Strategies
Stakeholder Alignment
Investment Prioritization
Value Realization
Process Discovery
Process Mapping
Root-Cause Analysis
Solution Design
Business Challenges
Transformational Change
Business Impact Measurement
Project Benefits Realization
Global Process Standardization
Governance
Financial Processes
Reporting Frameworks
Best Practices
Trusted Advisor
Subject Matter Expert
Financial Systems
Process Optimization Methodologies
Change Management
Adoption Efforts
Training Strategies
Stakeholder Engagement
New Tools Integration
New Processes Integration
Cross-functional Stakeholder Influence
Barrier Removal
Execution Acceleration
Strategic Business Outcomes
Process Innovation
Efficiency Improvement
Scalability Improvement
Accuracy Improvement
Organizational Effectiveness Improvement
Culture of Continuous Improvement
Digital Transformation
Team Empowerment
New Technologies Adoption
New Ways of Working Adoption
Business Performance Enhancement
Project Delivery
Scope Management
Timeline Management
Business Case Objectives
Power BI
Power Query
Tableau
Alteryx
Redwood
Power Platform
SQL
Python
Snowflake
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
Forecasting
Planning
Financial Modeling
Business Case Development
Excel
Data Analysis
ERP Systems
Enterprise Financial Data
Cross-functional Project Leadership
Complex Business Process Analysis
Measurable Improvement Delivery
MBA
CPA
CMA
Lean Six Sigma
PMP
Supply Chain Finance
Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Manufacturing Finance
Operations Finance
AI-enabled Solutions
Generative AI Workflows
Intelligent Automation Platforms
SAP
OneStream
Enterprise Planning Systems
Lean
DMAIC
Kaizen
A3 Problem Solving
Executive-level Reporting
Productivity Savings
Cycle-time Reduction
Financial Process Improvement
Global Matrixed Organization Operation

Location

United States

Work Type

Onsite (minimum 4 days a week)

Experience Level

Principal
7 years of relevant Finance, FP&A, Operations Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Consulting, Business Transformation, or Continuous Improvement experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
MBA, CPA, CMA, Lean Six Sigma, PMP, or equivalent certification (Preferred)

Salary/Compensations

$110,400.00 - $165,600.00 (USD)
1,320,000.00 CZK - 1,980,000.00 CZK (Czechia)
84,320.00 EUR - 126,480.00 EUR (Netherlands)

Benefits

Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP)
Health, Dental and vision insurance
Health Savings Account
Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
Life insurance
Long-term disability leave
Dependent daycare spending account
Tuition assistance/reimbursement
Simple Steps (global well-being program)
Incentive plans
401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
Short-term disability
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Employee Assistance Program
Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums)

About the Company

Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year.
Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.
Medtronic’s Global Supply Chain Finance organization is building the future of finance through automation, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement.
This team partners across Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Digital Technology, and business teams to simplify processes, standardize reporting, implement automation solutions, and improve the quality and speed of financial insights.
At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do.
Together, we can change healthcare worldwide.
At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology, therapies and services can do to help alleviate pain, restore health and extend life.
We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday.
It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We want to accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team.
Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives.
Help us shape the future.

Equal Opportunity

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.
Medtronic will consider for employment qualified job applicants with arrest or conviction records in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.