Associate Accountant General Ledger

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

You will be working in an international healthcare company and be part of the Record to Report organization. This organization consists of various finance functions and has a growing number of specialists worldwide - including the General Ledger Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) team located in Heerlen, the Netherlands.

The team offers diverse services on general ledger accounting, technical support and financial closing and reporting processes for entities in EMEA and often globally aligns on process improvements. In this role, you will participate in our monthly financial close processes, control, prepare, process and review specific journal entries, prepare financial analyses and reports, work on automation initiatives (including creating PowerBi dashboards) and be part of the team improvement initiatives.

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

• Execute on the monthly financial close operations and related transactional activities and review and process revenue journals
• Work with several financial systems and provide system support (e.g. SAP, Blackline, Onestream, Hyperion, Redwood, Snowflake)
• Prepare and maintain several PowerBi dashboards and to make sure processes in scope are continuously improved, simplified, standardized, automated, formalized and documented
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and pro-actively follow up on open and/or aged balances
• Function as a business partner by liaising with both internal and external stakeholders by email, virtual meetings and in person
• Ensure compliance to US GAAP and support on various continuous improvement projects using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology
• Provide support to meet our internal and external audit obligations and remediate any risks or issues.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics
• Team player with hands-on mentality, eager to learn
• Advanced skills in Excel, PowerBi and/or other data spreadsheet programs, tech/Automation savvy
• Committed to accuracy, good communication and interpersonal skills
• Advanced level of English; written and spoken.

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.

We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That’s who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.

We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.

This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will…

• Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world
• Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities
• Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning

These commitments set our team apart from the rest:

Experiences that put people first. Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity. It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life. And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.

Life-transforming technologies. No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives. What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.

Better outcomes for our world. Here, it’s about more than the bottom line. Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us. We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.

Insight-driven care. Fresh viewpoints. Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation. You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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