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:

• Lead key FP&A analyses supporting executive financial presentations, including for the Board of Directors
• Provide strong partnership with cross-functional teams to provide accurate and timely Wall Street guidance
• Present and defend strategic financial concepts to varying levels of management, including executive level
• Provide guidance and drive the creation and tracking of financial component of EW bonus plan
• Support Edwards strategic growth through the annual and long-term planning processes
• Proactively identifies management and business needs and successfully develops business cases for process improvement-related projects
• Interface across all of EW finance as well as Strategy and HR
• Mentor and develop more junior team members to ensure team-wide development and success
• Other incidental duties

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor's Degree in in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business or Mathematics
• A minimum of ten years of Finance/Accounting experience (OR eight years with a Master's degree)

What else we look for (Preferred):

• MBA
• CPA
• Financial or strategy analysis
• Expert understanding of finance models
• Strategic thought partner
• 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
• Expert understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
• Proven ability to build trusted partnerships within varying levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to represent leadership on projects within a specific area interfacing with project managers and finance team
• Demonstrated ability to consult in project setting within specific financial area
• Demonstrated ability to provide financial leadership to outsourcing partners on a task level

Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.

For California, the base pay range for this position is $115,000 to $163,000 (highly experienced).

The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience).  Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.