Finance Director Fp&a Latam

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**:Latin America Finance Leader in charge of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and all data and reporting intelligence for Latin America Finance region. This leader will need to collaborate with the Americas FP&A team, the Latin America FP&A and groups in region and subregions. The role will work directly with CFO LA and senior functional leaders to drive annual budgeting and strategic planning, and monthly forecasting and performance reporting. The role will lead and manage the FP&A resources in the region, businesses and subregions, being a member of the Latin America Finance team.
It is crucial for the Finance Leader to drive business performance and enhance operational effectiveness through insightful analysis, influence on strategic direction and execution. The main responsibilities also include providing robust financial evaluation and enabling decision making on initiatives and investments, and ultimately helping Medtronic to maximize revenue, long term profits and cash-flows.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Support the Latin America CFO in financial management across all Business Groups and Subregions, driving business results, monitoring performance, capex and cash-flow to optimize resource allocations and maximize profitable growth.
- Support the Regional Functional and business leaders with achieving subregion and regional financial results through close collaboration and best practice sharing across the region.
- Partner with finance leads in other groups/regions to standardize processes, reporting and timelines wherever possible across countries and businesses.
- Collaborate and align initiatives and opportunities with business development team and ensure these are financially incorporated into the LatAm financial planning and strategic processes.
- Perform scenario planning and demonstrate impacts of strategies/decisions on the business to facilitate prioritization and decision making.
- Help conceptualize/structure market models, challenge assumptions and influence strategy and decision making.
- Lead the Latin America planning processes serving as liaison between Americas/Corporate/Global teams and the businesses and subregions in Latin America. Develop guidelines, effective calendar, meeting reviews and tools that enable effective reviews and alignment processes until submission.
- Challenge resource allocation and drive allocation of resources to the most value creating opportunities.
- Provide analytical/strategic inputs and challenge marketing-sales planning, segmentation and targeting enhance effectiveness of Medtronic in the market.
- Provide strong commercial/financial decision support to Regional Business, functions and Finance Leaders. Provide leadership support to the sales call, Latam and Americas MFR and strat planning processes.
- Develop and effectively communicate expectations and results for the business. Prepare presentation materials and written analyses for senior management and other stakeholders on financial performance and investment proposals.
- Perform advanced, robust financial and feasibility analyses, incorporating finance, commercial, regulatory and market dynamics into the modeling. Provide support and take leadership role with the VP finance on all Medtronic PLC ventures through effective leadership and coordination of work, calendar planning and financial expectations across the FP&A and other teams
- Lead innovative ideas to standardize FP&A processes to improve PNL and WC forecasting and accuracy. Drive improvements in the subregion and region to more accurate forecast of complex elements of the PNL and FCF.
- Take active leadership role on all FP&A optimization initiatives, coordinating and monitoring performance of FP&A Latam teams through execution
- Interface with B.U. / Group/ Functions in region and subregions to explain results and address inquiries.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

MBA and/or CPA preferred English and Spanish speaking. Qualified undergraduate degree in accounting or finance

**EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE**:
At least 10 years of experiences in financial planning, reporting and control At least 7 years of experience in successfully managing a team and function Experience from top multinational company within or Healthcare industry highly desirable Strong business acumen and attention to detail and proven track record in process improvement Sound knowledge of compliance and statutory reporting requirements. US GAAP knowledge Ability to build strong business partnering relationships Used to working through ERP and other associated reporting systems. Computer literacy including sound knowledge of ERP, MS Office suite of software.

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