**Careers that Change Lives**
Change your career to exploration, innovation, and championing healthcare access and equity for all. Join a healthcare technology company that alleviates pain, restores health, and extends life for more than two people every second.
**A Day in the Life**
At our Finance Department in Medtronic, Plc, we focus on providing timely, relevant, and actionable information to drive the strategic direction of the company.
As a Cost Accountant you are directly involved in compliance in key areas of finance including
a) Working with all departments to understand costing requirements for existing and new products
b): Preparing costings using existing financial standards to ensure accurate costings
c): Managing intercompany relationships to align with pricing and sales strategy.
You will need to bring your financial acumen to deliver and/or manage projects assigned, working with other stakeholders to achieve desired and outstanding financial results.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Allocates costs, collects data, and prepares reports that maintain the company's cost accounting system.
- Ensures that costs are allocated according to established procedures.
- Gathers historical cost data on such activities as material purchases, labor, equipment depreciation, repairs, assembly, operating expenses, etc.
- Investigates cost structures for new and existing areas of the company.
- Prices new services or products by developing unit costs and projecting expenses.
- Prepares reports that compare budgets with actual expenses.
- May prepare existing or projected profitability analyses.
- Preparing profitability analyses and recommending or developing revisions to the cost accounting system.
- Assist in the planning and organization of the external audit including preparation of the financial statements.
- Support a high performing finance team to meet its commitment to all internal and external customers.
- Other ad-hoc tasks and data preparation required for both internal and external customers.
- May recommend, design, or develop revisions to the cost accounting system.
**Must Have: Minimum Requirements**
- Bachelors degree required in Finance, Administration Administration or related field.
- Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3+ years relevant experience
- Quantitative and qualitative data analysis, including business process metrics and measures linking to business KPIs (Forecast Accuracy, Bias, Forecast Value Add, Market Share, R&Os)
- Advanced English - Strong written and verbal communication skills English with a proven ability to understand key concepts and communicate with business stakeholders.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office: Excel, Power BI and PowerPoint.
- Srong manufacturing Standard Costing experience with the ability to roll, set & forecast Standard Costs on the ERP system
- Good planning, communication, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and meet due dates for tasks in your area
**Nice to Have**
- Excellent knowledge of SAP and advanced Excel.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing environments (preferably in electronics or medical Device).
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Continuous Improvement mindset and skills.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems.
- Ability to work in culturally diverse teams.
- Global Finance Experience, working in large, complex, matrix organizations.
- Capable of working under high pressure and high accountability.
**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)