Finance Business Partner, 12 month contract

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 Life

As the Finance Business Partner (FBP) for Cardiovascular (CV), you will act as a strategic finance partner to Commercial Operating Units (OUs), driving business performance through insight, challenge, and financial leadership. You will provide decision support to deliver financial outcomes aligned to business strategy, while ensuring strong governance and alignment with Global OU Finance.

This role sits within the CV Business Finance team and reports to the CV Finance Manager. It plays a critical role in articulating performance, aligning plans, identifying risks and opportunities, and enabling high-quality commercial decision-making across a complex, multinational environment.

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

• Act as the primary finance partner to Commercial OU leaders, providing insight, challenge, and decision support to drive revenue growth, margin expansion, and cost discipline.

• Lead quarterly forecasts, Annual Operating Plan (AOP), and Strategic Planning processes, ensuring alignment with Integrated Business Planning and Global OU Finance.

• Own performance reporting and monthly reviews, clearly articulating key drivers, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.

• Deliver scenario modelling and financial analysis to support pricing, investment, portfolio, and resource allocation decisions.

• Translate business strategies into financial targets and ensure accurate, timely system submissions across revenue, margin, and operating expenses.

• Build strong cross-functional relationships across Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Finance to enable aligned decision-making in a matrix environment.

• Maintain a robust financial control environment and drive continuous improvement in forecasting, planning, and reporting processes.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Minimum requirement is Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Finance or Accounting) with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience, or an Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

• CPA/CA Qualified

• Demonstrated strong experience in business partnering

• Advanced excel and data modelling skills and knowledge

• Experience with financial/reporting and planning systems (e.g., SAP, Hyperion/Essbase, Anaplan, OneStream etc.), PowerBI and other data visualisations tools

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect financial outcomes to business strategy

• High accountability and ownership mindset

• Proactive, solutions-oriented, and positive approach

• Strong influencing skills with the confidence to challenge constructively

• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities

• Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity in a multinational environment

• Strong analytical and data-handling capabilities

• Flexibility and adaptability in a dynamic commercial environment

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

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 95,000+ 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.

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