Manager, Finance

Our Global Supply Chain team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease and critical care needs. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world.Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Patients are at the heart of what we do at Edwards Lifesciences. Our Finance teams work hard to optimize our current and long-term success and enable our ongoing strategy of innovation, leadership, and focus. As part of the team, whether providing analysis, forecasting, or reporting financial information, your application of accurate financial business practices will play a fundamental role in how we impact the quality of life for patients all over the world.How you’ll make an impact:

Provide financial expertise and guidance to leaders in EW Manufacturing Operations.

Manage cost accounting and FP&A processes for the Draper plant. Analyze manufacturing variances and spending trends combined with forecasting the financial performance of future production.

Draw findings from financial and manufacturing trend reports, synthesize information, create presentations for management and provide recommendations and conclusions from data

Collaborate with finance and manufacturing stakeholders to develop moderately complex financial dashboards, global reporting and analysis (e.g., plan metrics, cost of quality, financial tracking on big projects)

Collaborate with management in identifying process improvements

Responsible for compliance activities (e.g., SOX, key and internal controls, fixed asset audits, physical inventory)

Analyze ROI (Return on Investment) of expenditures for manufacturing projects

Develop project plans and global cost accounting activities with accountability for successful completion within scope of project deliverables

Provide guidance and/or lead smaller project teams to execute tactical projects and/or initiatives

What you'll need (Required):Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance, with 8 years of previous related experience RequiredWhat else we look for (Preferred):

Proven successful project management skills

Proven expertise in MS Office Suite, including advanced Excel, database tools (e.g., QlikView), financial systems, and ERP systems (e.g., JDE, SAP)

Excellent facilitation and presentation skills

Excellent communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

Extensive knowledge of own area within the organization while contributing to the development of new concepts, techniques, and standards

Extensive understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

Extensive understanding of related aspects of financial processes and/or systems

Strict attention to detail

Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

Ability to represent leadership on sections of projects within a specific area interfacing with project managers and finance team

Ability to consult in project setting within specific sections of financial area

Ability to provide financial leadership to outsourcing partners on a task level

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/controlEdwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.COVID Vaccination RequirementEdwards is committed to protecting our vulnerable patients and the healthcare providers who are treating them. As such, all patient-facing and in-hospital positions require COVID-19 vaccination. If hired into a covered role, as a condition of employment, you will be required to submit proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19, unless you request and are granted a medical or religious accommodation for exemption from the vaccination requirement. This vaccination requirement does not apply in locations where it is prohibited by law to impose vaccination.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 15,000 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.