Manager Finance CMO

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive Surgical is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to partner with the Chief Medical Officer’s leadership teams. You will lead two Senior Analysts and drive financial planning, ROI analyses, and data-driven decision support across GAVE, PEPS, CA, CM, and ATM.

You will oversee month-end close, forecasts, and a 3-year LR model while advancing KPI development and dashboarding with the Finance Analytics team. Onsite in Sunnyvale, CA three days a week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of finance experience, with leadership exposure.
• Strong executive-level communication and business partnering.
• Proven ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Experience with financial systems and analytics tools (Anaplan/Tableau/SQL).

Responsibilities

• Lead month-end close, quarterly forecast and annual budgeting for CMO Functions.
• Deliver a 3-year Long-Range Model (LRM3) and scenario planning.
• Collaborate with business teams to develop new KPI's and metrics.
• Build financial models to enable ROI decisions and post-launch assessments.
• Analyze actual spend to identify cost optimization opportunities.
• Support ATM's quarterly SIOP process and monthly oversight.
• Partner with Finance Analytics to develop dashboards for performance.
• Identify opportunities to streamline planning and reporting processes.
• Lead and develop analysts, fostering growth in technical and soft skills.
• Promote inclusion, diversity and collaboration within finance.
• Provide ad hoc decision-support, modeling, reporting and analytics.

Skills

Finance leadership

Strategic partnership

Forecasting & budgeting

KPI development

Anaplan

Tableau

SQL

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or related field

Tools

Anaplan

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Primary Function of Position:

The Manager will be the leading finance partner to Intuitive Chief Medical Officer (CMO)’s leadership teams, including Global Access, Value & Economics (GAVE), Professional Education & Program Services (PEPS), Clinical Affairs (CA), Comparative Medicine (CM), and Advanced Tissue Model (ATM). The Manager will lead 2 Senior Analysts to support those functions.

This role will be responsible for providing financial planning, economic decision, expense management and data analysis support to the CMO’s organization. The manager will lead, grow, empower, and inspire a team of finance professionals, and work across the broader finance team to enable and deliver Intuitive’s strategic and financial goals.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead processes for month-end close, quarterly forecast and annual budgeting financial process for all the Functions under CMO


• Deliver thorough and thoughtful 3-year Long Range Model (LRM3)


• Lead and collaborate with the business and commercial organizations on the development of new KPI’s


• Create financial models to enable leaders with decision making capabilities for key investments. Rigorously measure ROI of investments, conducting post-launch assessments on what we delivered


• Provide in-depth analyses of actual spend to drive insights on trends, investment areas, and opportunities to optimize costs


• Support ATM’s quarterly SIOP process and monthly financial oversight


• Partner with the Finance Analytics team to develop dashboards to monitor business performance


• Proactively identify continuous opportunities to streamline planning and reporting processes


• Lead and develop analysts for continuous growth in both technical skills and soft skills


• Support and lead a culture of inclusion, diversity and collaboration with the finance organization


• Ad hoc decision-support, financial modeling, reporting and analytics

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant finance experience


• Strong organizational, analytical, management and leadership skills including strong interpersonal, communication with strong executive presence and ability to deliver business insights


• Exceptional verbal & written communication and business partnering skills


• Ability to lead and motivate peers and team to deliver high-quality, accurate results that positively impact the business


• Deep business acumen, strategic thinker and ability to master our business model through a deep understanding of financial systems, analytical tools and languages including Anaplan, Tableau and SQL


• Self-starter with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and the ability to establish clear priorities and goals


• Ability to manage a team effectively through ambiguity to deliver on‑time, accurate and high-quality results


• This role requires working onsite in our Sunnyvale, CA office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week

Required Education and Training

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, economics, or related field; MBA and/or CPA is a plus

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