Accountant

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

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

• Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, reclassifications, and adjustments across multiple entities in accordance with Medtronic accounting policies and applicable accounting standards.
• Support month‑end, quarter‑end, and year‑end close activities, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of financial results.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations and P&L analysis, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and financial statement integrity, including investigation and resolution of variances.
• Execute and review P&L and balance sheet reclassifications to ensure proper accounting treatment and alignment with financial reporting requirements.
• Analyze financial results (P&L and balance sheet) and provide insights to support business decisions and management reporting.
• Prepare and deliver financial reports and analyses to stakeholders, highlighting key variances, trends, and areas requiring attention.
• Calculate, prepare, and file indirect taxes (e.g., GST/HST, sales taxes), including related journal entries, payments, and reconciliations, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Reconcile tax accounts and support internal and external audits related to tax filings and financial reporting.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams (e.g., FP&A, Payroll, Trade, Shared Services, and Operations) to resolve discrepancies and ensure accuracy of financial data.
• Maintain documentation in compliance with internal controls and company policies.
• Identify and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, standardization, and automation within accounting processes.
• Support internal and external audits by preparing required schedules, documentation, and explanations.
Perform other accounting, reporting, or finance‑related duties and special projects as assigned.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Accurate and timely completion of month‑end close activities
• High‑quality balance sheet reconciliations with minimal aging items
• Strong collaboration with business partners to resolve financial issues
Continuous identification of opportunities to improve accounting processes and controls

Nice to have

• SAP experience
• Healthcare experience
• Power BI and OneStream

Salary Range: $66,240 - $82,800

PLEASE NOTE

• We use artificial intelligence (AI) to review resumes of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.

• This posting reflects a current, genuine vacancy that we are actively recruiting to fill.

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

• The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers.

Medtronic Canada strives through our vision to build a culture of inclusiveness through our commitment to employment equity and diversity. Discrimination is prohibited on any grounds protected under Canadian Human Rights legislation. Employment applications are encouraged from all members of our community. Upon request, candidates with disabilities will be accommodated during the recruitment process.

SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy: Established and productive individual contributor.

Works independently with general supervision on larger, moderately complex projects / assignments.

Organizational Impact: Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives of projects and assignments.

Contributes to the completion of project milestones .

May have some involvement in cross functional assignments.

Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are general, and may require understanding of broader set of issues or other job areas but typically are not complex .

Makes adjustments or recommends enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.

Communication and Influence: Communicates primarily and frequently with internal contacts .

External interactions are less complex or problem solving in nature.

Contacts others to share information, status, needs and issues in order to inform, gain input, and support decision-making.

Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and / or employee in Support Career Stream.

Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires practical knowledge and demonstrated competence within job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.

Requires a Baccalaureate degree (or for degrees earned outside of the United States, a degree which satisfies the requirements of 8 C.F.R. § 214.2(h)( 4)(iii)(A) and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.

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.

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

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 95,000+ 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