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:

• Our Senior Accountant – Global Consolidations & Reporting role is within the Global Consolidations and Reporting team.  This position will play a key role in the consolidation of Edwards’ financial results in support of both internal and external reporting. This position will interact with external auditors, internal auditors, and senior management. You will have high level executive exposure and the opportunity to learn complex global transactions.
• Provide advice, guidance, analysis, and reporting of financial information
• Integral part of the global consolidation close process of over 70+ entities and support of regions (US, Europe, Japan and ROW)
• Full responsibility for designated consolidation month/quarter-end close activities
• Monthly review and analysis of Regional P&L and Balance Sheet
• Prepare quarterly earnings package in support of Earnings Release
• Prepare detailed fluctuation analysis for quarterly and annual audits
• Take a lead role in fulfilling requirements for external and internal audits in areas of responsibility, including information requests from global regions
• Ensure all SOX key controls are appropriately maintained & completed within area of responsibility 
• Identify accounting process and system deficiencies and recommend process improvements to provide timely, accurate and useful information to ensure accurate financial reporting (which includes participating in various finance initiatives/projects)
• Develop, maintain and update desk procedures documentation as processes change for efficiency

What you'll need (Required):

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics, or Mathematics required
• CPA required
• A minimum of five years of Accounting/Finance experience (or three years of experience with a Masters)
• Public accounting firm experience

 What else we look for (Preferred):

• Experience with complex accounting transactions and international entity exposure
• Hyperion systems, JD Edwards Enterprise, OneStream experience
• Big Four experience

• Excellent organizational skills
• Must have high degree of accuracy, very detail-oriented
• Good time management skills, priority setting
• Deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable for the work done
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Extremely proactive, strong initiative, self-motivated
• High integrity, ethics and strong values
• Innovative use of IT tools and new technology
• Adaptable, flexible in a changing environment
• Ability to interface effectively at all levels of the organization
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Willing to learn and develop new skills and business acumen

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 $78,000 to $110,000 (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.