Senior Finance Director – Global R&D Finance Center of Excellence (CoE) Leader

About this role

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life                     We are seeking a strategic and transformational finance leader to serve as the Senior Finance Director for the Global R&D Finance Center of Excellence (CoE) . The CoE is expected to grow and mature to support the full enterprise and this role will be instrumental in leading that transformation, standing up the next phase of the model —driving expanded adoption of standardized financial planning, reporting, and decision support across enterprise R&D.

This leader will operate at the center of innovation—partnering closely with Portfolio and Operating Unit (OU) CFOs to accelerate adoption of CoE standards and ways of working , ensuring consistency, scalability, and enterprise alignment. Supported by a global team of approximately +15 finance professionals and growing. This leader will lead the vision, define priorities, and drive execution of the CoE roadmap —ensuring the organization delivers today while building toward a more scalable, standardized future state.

Success in this role will require balancing transformation and execution —continuing to deliver high-quality outputs while embedding a more consistent, enterprise-wide model. The role will also partner closely with the Digital Transformation team on exciting new reporting, analytics and streamlined financial workflows.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. This position is remote to enhance our competitive edge and expand our cross-functional collaboration efforts. This role will require 10% of travel to enhance collaboration and ensure successful completion of projects.

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

Enterprise Leadership & Strategy • Lead and evolve the R&D Finance CoE operating model, driving enterprise-wide standardization and scalability

• Serve as a key finance partner to the Innovation leadership team

• Helps to enable R&D investment strategies and standardized inputs to enterprise priorities and innovation goals

FP&A and Digital Transformation Reporting • Oversee AOP and forecast processes across global R&D portfolios

• Drive adoption of standardized, dashboard-based reporting (e.g., Day 5 packages)

• Lead data governance, financial tagging, and systems integration (e.g., ENRICH, OneStream, Power BI)

• Enable real-time financial visibility and streamlined reporting processes

Operating Model Execution • Lead transition of decentralized R&D finance teams into the CoE structure

• Strengthen collaboration between CoE and Operating Unit finance teams

• Balance enterprise consistency with portfolio-specific business needs

Business Partnership & Decision Support • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across technology, clinical, and regulatory functions

• Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights for executive decision-making

Governance & Performance Management • Establish and maintain financial governance and accountability across R&D investments (labor rates, data tagging, and project planning).

• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes and decision-making frameworks

Global Team Leadership • Lead and develop a high-performing, globally distributed finance team

• Build organizational capability in analytics, business partnering, and executive communication

• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Minimum Qualifications • Bachelor’s Degree with 15+ years of work experience in Finance including FP&A and operations finance (Or Advanced Degree with 13+ years) plus 10+ years of managerial experience

Preferred Qualifications • Proven experience leading large-scale transformation or centralized operating models

• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, including C-suite leaders

• Experience supporting technology, R&D, clinical, or regulatory functions in a global organization

• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop high-performing, international teams

• Enterprise mindset with the ability to think strategically and execute operationally

• Strong collaborator who builds trust across complex, matrixed organizations

• Decisive and action-oriented, with a focus on outcomes (“progress over perfection”)

• Effective communicator who simplifies complexity for executive audiences

• Passion for developing talent and building scalable organizations

For Baccalaureate degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree that satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)(4)(iii)(A) is required.

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. 

The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical re

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