Financial Analyst

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.

Primary Function of Position:

Under the supervision of the Finance Manager, Europe, the Finance Analyst is responsible for executing standardized financial processes supporting month-end and quarter-end close cycles, data consolidation, and reporting activities.

The role primarily supports European financial operations and reporting by consolidating financial and commercial data from multiple sources to produce accurate and timely recurring deliverables. This includes supporting monthly accruals, close activities, and reporting processes. The Finance Analyst also contributes to process optimization, basic data visualization, and ad-hoc business support, ensuring data is well-structured, reliable, and efficiently produced.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepare recurring consolidated reporting packages (weekly, monthly, quarterly) covering financial and commercial performance metrics, with a focus on accuracy, efficiency, and scalability
• Assist in building and maintaining BI dashboards; support ad-hoc analysis requests with clear, structured, and professional data presentation
• Prepare and manage monthly accruals (e.g., open POs, commissions, recurring costs) using multiple data sources; support the development and maintenance of models to improve calculation accuracy
• Analyze variances (budget vs. actual) across operating expenses, headcount, and key commercial metrics, identifying and explaining primary drivers
• Work with financial systems (e.g., ERPs, planning tools) to consolidate, structure, and upload data accurately
• Support continuous process improvement through documentation, standardization, and automation of financial workflows
• Demonstrate a proactive, solution-oriented mindset by identifying issues, proposing improvements, and independently driving resolution

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, data science or other related fields
• 1–4 years of experience in finance operations, accounting, or shared services environment
• Basic understanding of accounting principles (e.g., accruals, journal entries, general ledger)
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (data handling, reconciliation, templates)
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong organizational and time management skills, especially under tight deadlines
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Experience supporting month-end close processes in multinational organization
• Familiarity with reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, ect)
• Exposure to ERP Systems (SAP, Oracle, ect)
• Exposure to process documentation and continuous improvement

Intuitive is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees, and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, without regard to race, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, genetic information or any other status protected under federal, state, or local applicable laws.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with fair chance laws.

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who are nationals from countries currently on embargo or sanctions status.

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This position may be filled at a different job level than listed here depending on
business need and/or on the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge and skills.
Compensation will be based primarily on the job level at which the role is filled and the
candidate’s qualifications, consistent with applicable law.