Senior Financial Planning Analyst

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 LifeAre you ready to join a team of finance professionals working in multiple financial areas around Inventory & Inventory driven costs – Transportation costs?
In our European Operations Center (EOC) in Heerlen we have a position related to cost control and financial planning & analysis on Transportation (Freight & Duty) costs, covering the Western Europe and Middle East & Africa (EMEA) regions. In this role you will be part of the Global Order to Delivery team, a team of finance professionals working in multiple financial areas around Inventory & Inventory driven costs – Transportation costs being one of them.
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Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Actively participating in the financial closing, planning, and preparing forecasts on Freight & Duty costs
• Preparing financial analyses for Finance & Transportation management and reporting results in a comprehensive way with variable drivers
• Maintaining and building reporting, accounting and control structures, planning models and database structures supporting freight & duty cost flows
• Partnering with management in making decisions through complex data analysis
• Partnering with business teams to drive operating performance in Transport area
• Participating in projects around financial optimization and financial process setup and improvements

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Relevant bachelor or master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics and a minimum of 6-8 years of professional finance experience, preferably in an international environment and comfortable with working in cross-functional, remote teams
• Willing to take a hands-on approach with high learning agility
• Able to handle complex structures and high amounts of data, with commitment to accuracy
• Fully proficient in Excel, able to restructure financial driver calculation models
• Perfect command of English both written and spoken
• Experience in SAP, Hyperion, PowerBI, or SQL

Knowledge of database programs like MS Access is considered an advantage for this position. 

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. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic 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.
 

About Medtronic

We 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 90,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here