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Medtronic Assistant controller – South Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa

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

The Assistant controller - South Africa will report into the Africa Controller and will provide direct leadership to the South Africa Controller’s staff to create and maintain a strong, consistent control environment with accurate and complete reporting based on USGAAP and local GAAP.

This position will demonstrate agility and strong communications skills while partnering across the Medtronic Organization, including South Africa, regional teams, shared service centre teams, centre of excellence teams, and BPO-partners. To be eligible for consideration of this position you must be located in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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

  • Demonstrate a broad and in-depth understanding of Accounting and Finance processes and policies for USGAAP and local GAAP. Provide oversight and direction to the local Finance organization for all accounting and reporting matters, including the following to ensure compliance with accounting principles and Medtronic processes, legal and ethical standards: Primary in-country finance contact person for accounting and control topics (e.g., Revenue recognition), accountable for financial accuracy and completeness of the regional Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss accounts (US-GAAP and local GAAP) for all assigned legal entities in South Africa, responsible for creating and maintaining a strong and consistent control environment, responsible for local risk management.

  • Collaborate with relevant stakeholders on continuous process improvements, be able to lead local projects and collaborate in Europe, Middle East, Africa wide projects

  • Partner with the country finance, business, financial analysts, and enabling functions in a broad range of business issues, education of Medtronic financial policies/processes, and as needed provide guidance in the decision-making process.

  • Be able to lead local projects and collaborate in EMEA wide projects, collaborate on EMEA wide value-stream initiatives

  • Operate with the highest of ethical standards

  • Ability to operate and influence within a complex organization, build and develop a high performing controlling team

  • Provide direction to a team of two professional staff: provide direction and guidance to ensure efficient completion of personal and group objectives, conduct regular value-added performance discussions, provide development opportunities, and support career development

Required Knowledge and Experience:

  • Fluent in English, both spoken and written

  • Master’s Degree in Accounting or Finance

  • 8+ years experience in accounting or finance; previous people managing experience is preferred

  • Must have solid proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint

  • Comprehensive understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), South Africa regulations, and USGAAP

  • Strong influence management skills, inspire others to excel, communicate with impact and drive execution, successful track record of supervising, supporting, and developing a diverse financial team

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 90,000+ 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 (http://www.medtronic.com)

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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 90,000+ 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.

This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For further information about the E-Verify program, please click here (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees) .

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