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Finance

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Direct accounting activities for the site with overall responsibility for accounting team hiring and onboarding, ensuring results, and establishing objectives in support of the company's strategy for the site; set corporate controller performance management objectives.

• Define effective and efficient business process workflow for site controller organization, including process modifications in partnership with stakeholders. Lead efforts to optimize business processes and systems by assessing business needs and developing, proposing and implementing solution options in collaboration with HQ leadership and stakeholders.

• Oversee the Sarbanes Oxley cycle narratives are updated timely and accurately to reflect processes and controls for the site; ensure all SOX key controls are appropriately completed within areas of responsibility.

• Provide Local Leadership and Engagement with internal Finance professionals to foster a connection to Edwards collaborative and results-driven culture. Support the transition of work activities into the site including talent acquisition and recruiting of finance personnel, onboarding events and Quality Assurance in compliance with industry regulations and company policies.

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with Finance leaders onsite and across Edwards. Serve as an escalation point and provide more complex technical expertise and resolutions to global finance partners Identify risk and areas of concern, understand evolving needs and provide recommendations and risk mitigation strategies to resolve issues in collaboration with functional leadership.

• Other incidental duties

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance - previous work experience leading in shared service centers and skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Senior Manager Required or

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Accounting or Finance -previous work experience leading in shared service centers and skill levels exceeding the requirements of the Senior Manager Preferred.

Additional Skills:

• Experience working in large manufacturing company preferred.

• Experience with Coupa and Concur preferred.

• Proven success in project management.

• Proven leadership in a matrixed environment driving results and engagement.

• Ability to evolve in multi cultural, multi language environment, serving entities in multiple time zones.

• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite, database tools, financial systems, and ERP systems (e.g., JDE, SAP).

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

• Expert understanding of financial procedures while looking beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems.

• 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.

• Demonstrated ability to direct teams and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all direct employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations.

• Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of finance to the business.

• Serve as core finance partner to senior leaders in Business Units, Functional Groups, Regions.

• 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 work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment.

• Ability to interacts with senior management, and others concerning matters of significance to the company.

• Ability to conduct business briefings for senior and top management.

• Ability to regularly interact with executives and/or major stakeholders; interactions frequently involve special skills, such as negotiating with stakeholders or management or attempting to influence senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization.

• Ability to strongly commit to quality client service and pro-active and responsive to client needs.

• Ability to develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness.

• Ability to provide leadership and direction to large cross-functional teams to successfully implement global enterprise systems and related solutions.

• Ability to develop relationships and leverage them to influence change.

• Ability to support and solicit input from team members at all levels within the organization.