At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the LifeIn this role, you will drive advanced financial analytics initiatives from conception through deployment, supporting critical business decisions across Medtronic. You will lead the development and maintenance of sophisticated forecasting, profitability, scenario planning, and optimization models, leveraging both statistical and machine learning techniques. Collaborating with key partners in finance, data engineering, and business units, you will ensure scalable data architecture and deliver actionable insights through dynamic dashboards and executive scorecards.
As a strategic partner, you will facilitate cross-functional engagement, influence financial strategy through workshops and presentations, and champion best practices in model governance and analytics innovation. Your work will have a direct impact on financial planning, reporting, and the adoption of analytics-driven decision making throughout the organization.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
End-to-End Financial Analytics & Modeling
Lead advanced financial analytics initiatives from business problem definition to model deployment and performance monitoring.
Develop, validate, and maintain forecasting, profitability, scenario planning, and optimization models using statistical and machine learning techniques.
Conduct variance analysis, sensitivity testing, and driver-based modeling to support budgeting, forecasting, and investment decisions.
Engage in feature engineering, back-testing, and model interpretability to ensure transparency and robustness of financial models.
Insight Delivery & Visualization
Build financial dashboards and executive scorecards using Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools to visualize KPIs, trends, and business drivers.
Translate complex analytical findings into clear financial narratives and actionable insights tailored to leadership and cross-functional audiences.
Continuously monitor model performance, data drift, and forecast accuracy, setting up thresholds and alert mechanisms to ensure reliability.
Data Architecture & Collaboration
Partner with data engineering and finance systems teams to ensure scalable, well-governed financial data pipelines and high-quality datasets.
Define data requirements for planning, forecasting, and profitability models; assist in ETL/ELT processes ensuring transparency and reproducibility.
Contribute to data architecture decisions that enable unified and consistent reporting across financial domains (sales, cost, margin, OPEX, etc.).
Business Partnering & Stakeholder Engagement
Collaborate with FP&A, Controllership, Supply Chain, and Business Unit Finance teams to co-create analytical problem statements and align on business priorities.
Lead workshops and presentations to influence financial strategy and drive adoption of analytical insights into decision-making.
Define and track adoption metrics and financial KPIs to measure the business impact of analytics initiatives.
Governance, Standards & Best Practices
Establish and enforce model governance frameworks—including documentation, version control (Git), testing, and validation protocols.
Perform sensitivity, scenario, and stress testing for financial models to assess robustness under varying market and operational conditions.
Stay current with emerging technologies and methodologies in financial analytics, recommending innovations that enhance forecasting accuracy and business agility.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of experience in advanced analytics, data science, or related roles in a commercial or operations environment.
Proven hands-on experience building statistical / ML models (forecasting, classification, clustering, time series, uplift modeling, etc.).
Proficiency in Python, R, or similar analytic coding languages.
Nice-to-Have
Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics) required; Master’s / PhD preferred.
Strong SQL skills; capable of writing complex, high-performance queries in relational (and non-relational, if applicable) databases.
Experience with BI / data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker).
Experience with cloud analytics / big data tooling (Azure, AWS, GCP; Spark, Databricks, etc.).
Experience with causal inference, uplift modeling, experimentation / A/B testing frameworks, prescriptive analytics.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
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.
Benefits & CompensationMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to those regular employees who work 20+ hours per week: 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, and Simple Steps (global well-being program).
The following benefits and additional compensation are available to all regular employees: 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 (subject to IRS earning minimums), and Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above, or subject to IRS earning minimums).
Regular employees are those who are not temporary, such as interns. Temporary employees are eligible for paid sick time, as required under applicable state law, and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Please note some of the above benefits may not apply to workers in Puerto Rico.
Further details are available at the link below:
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
About MedtronicWe lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
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What We Do
Medtronic is a global healthcare solutions company operating in approximately 160 countries. We are committed to improving lives through our medical technologies, services, and solutions.
Since our beginning, 60 years ago, our Mission has remained the same: to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life for people around the world. The Mission is our ethical framework and inspirational goal guiding our day-to-day work. It reminds us that our efforts are transforming millions of lives each year.
To meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals around the globe, we operate from more than 370 locations in approximately 160 countries.
