Sr Analyst, Finance

Provide advice, guidance, analysis, and reporting of financial information to EW Manufacturing Operations.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Analyze and interpret complex monthly financial results to identify financial issues, for business leaders; provide insights and make recommendations regarding possible course corrections
- Analyze weekly and monthly manufacturing trends (e.g., material, labor, overhead) in partnership with business leaders to develop/update quarterly forecasts and budgets and provide feedback
- Draw findings from financial and manufacturing trend reports, synthesize information, and create presentations for management
- Partner with manufacturing leaders to advise on financial impact of recent/proposed process changes
- Assess system capabilities and process efficiencies, and make recommendations for enhancements and upgrades
- Prepare and process month-end journal entries; prepare balance sheet account reconciliations; calculate, update, and maintain product standard cost in ERP system; gathering data and generating reports in support of manufacturing trend analysis
- Assist in compliance activities (e.g., SOX, key and internal controls, fixed asset audits, physical inventory) Analyze ROI (Return on Investment) of expenditures for manufacturing projects, identify operational implications, and recommend improvements
- Other incidental duties

**Education and Experience**:
Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, or Business Administration
5 years' experience of previous related experience required.

**Other**: Experience working in a large manufacturing company Preferred

**Additional Skills**:

- Proven expertise in MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel and related financial systems; ERP (e.g., JDE, Oracle, SP) experience preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including consultative and relationship management skills
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and investigative skills
- Substantial knowledge and understanding of Edwards policies, procedures, and guidelines relevant to corporate accounting
- Good understanding of manufacturing and cost accounting processes
- Substantial understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
- Substantial knowledge of financial concepts and principles
- Expertise in own functional area and ability to coach others in various functional areas impacted within the business
- Ability to manage confidential information with discretion
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work and perform within a metrics organization and with OUS Plants
- Ability to work in a team environment, including inter-departmental teams and key contact representing the department on projects
- Ability to interact with senior internal and external personnel on significant matters often requiring coordination between organizations
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control

About Edwards Lifesciences

Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader in patient-focused medical innovations for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. Driven by a passion to help patients, the company collaborates with the world’s leading clinicians and researchers to address unmet healthcare needs, working to improve patient outcomes and enhance lives. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Edwards Lifesciences has extensive operations in North America, Europe, Japan, Latin America and Asia and currently employs over 13,000 individuals worldwide.

For us, helping patients is not a slogan - it’s our life’s work. From developing devices that replace or repair a diseased heart valve to creating new technologies that monitor vital signs in the critical care setting, we focus on helping patients regain and improve the quality of their life.

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