Careers that Change Lives

Position can be based onsite at Sullivan Lake, MN (Columbia Heights) campus or remote in the US.

In this exciting role, you will lead and execute projects within Finance Shared Services teams that will improve quality and efficiency of current processes. You will serve as a liaison between Sourcing, FSSC Ops teams and internal and external IT organizations and actively lead projects for business entity integrations or adoption of new systems/tools. You will also lead various global projects to align systems and processes within Finance Shared Service Centers.

A Day in the Life

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

• Regional lead for global projects impacting Finance Shared Services
• Manages on-boarding of additional service scope - acquisitions and integrations as well as divestitures and new service offerings
• Independently manage system upgrades and/or implementations across Shared Services, with IT and with the legacy site, where applicable
• Independently manage projects which are global in nature aligning processes and systems within the regional shared service centers.
• Accountability for the success of respective functional area(s)
• Organization and oversight of core and extended project team for respective functional area.
• Management and monitoring of risks, issues, schedule and budget for respective area
• Coordination with business and IT leads to define requirements, identify gaps between current state and FSS business processes and develop solutions
• Coordination across functions and business areas to drive resolution of issues and mitigation of risks
• Active participation in program planning activities
• Coordination of communication delivery and assessment
• Coordination of data mapping and data validation
• Accountability for delivery and coordination of user acceptance testing and participants
• Accountability for training development and delivery
• Coordination of readiness assessment survey and action planning
• Post-implementation assessment and action planning to remediate issues
• Leading functional workstream meetings (schedule, set agenda, define deliverables, owners and due dates, designate a scribe, etc.)
• Management of extended team members in preparing project definition and deliverables
• Communication to workstream and larger community of functional stakeholders
• Coordination of the definition of the business processes, documenting / mapping those processes for future state
• Identify opportunities for automation and work with managers to implement
• Provide day-to-day support and configuration for systems
• Lead and/or coordinate process improvement exercises (e.g. Kaizen)

Must Have: Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of work experience in finance, accounting, project/program management, business analyst, and/or financial systems experience (5+ years with an Advanced degree)

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, project management or related area
• Experience integrating businesses into a shared service organization
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Experience working with all levels of management
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Project, Visio, & Excel (pivots, formulas, charts)
• Experience with reporting (Business Objects, Spotfire, etc)
• Working knowledge of SAP

About Medtronic

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.

Physical Job Requirements

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role. (ADA-United States of America)

Additional Information

• Posting Date: Aug 20, 2021
• Travel: No