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**:At our Finance department in Medtronic, we focus on providing timely, relevant and accurate information to help strategically drive the business forward. We work to ensure our corporate reporting, compliance and statutory requirements are achieved and our fiduciary responsibilities are met.
In the Associate Accountant role, you will be you will be responsible for a variety of accounting tasks and supporting financial operations. We offer a permanent contract with hybrid working model.
**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**:
- Assists in the compilation of financial information, preparing reports, and recording transactions.
- Assists in a wide variety of areas such as Accounts Payable and Bank
- Supports the finance team on month end close activity, including journal entries and preparation of balance sheet reconciliations
- Supports the finance team with adherence to accounting and auditing policies, procedures and internal controls
- Assists in gathering information for finance deliverables, such as internal and external audit requests and government surveys
- Coordinates and liaises with operations to support completion manufacturing cycle counts & adherence to inventory controls
**Required Knowledge and Experience**:
- 4+ years of previous accounting experience including knowledge of Italian gaap
- Good IT skills - particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong communication skills - ability to work as part of an international team and with a wide number of stakeholders.
- Ability to work on own initiative & identify improvements in how we do work.
A Minimum of first level degree in Finance or relevant discipline is desired. Previous BPCS (Basic Process Control Systems) experience is also desirable.
**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.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
**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.