External Reporting Accountant

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

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

• Reporting to the Supervisor External Reporting EMEA as the team’s services include statutory financial reporting, Corporate Income Tax accounting and reporting, audit coordination and group reporting for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region
• Preparation of the financial statements, audit coordination, statutory filing and tax filing
• Translate US GAAP to local GAAP accounting principles
• Coordinate and review activities of junior team members and service provider
• Corporate Income Tax accounting, reporting for group purposes and prepare finance updates for the local board meetings
• Play a key role in project teams to roll out strategy to expand the team’s scope
• Participate and lead projects and initiatives to transform, optimize, standardize, and automate audit coordination and statutory, corporate income tax and group reporting, also using LEAN methodology

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Audit or Accounting and 3+ years relevant working experience
• Experience with compiling financial statements
• Strong communication at minimum C1 proficiency level English business language and coordinating skills
• Microsoft Excel intermediate proficiency level combined with Certified Public Accountant or equivalent
• Enterprise Resource Planning system experience (preferably SAP)
• Experience with US GAAP / IFRS

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.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here