Boston Scientific Corporation Work Values

Daily Duties at Boston Scientific Corporation:

BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP, Arden Hills, Minnesota 2011 – 2013 Principal Financial Analyst (2013 – 2013) • Lead monthly and quarterly revenue reporting, forecasting, and modeling for key investment projects related to peripheral interventions business segment within company’s cardiovascular division. • Perform financial analysis, ad-hoc reporting, and deliver support to marketing and R&D departments. • Manage T&E reporting, headcount reporting, and cost center reporting and analysis on regular basis. • Produce financial and statistical reports; support R&D planning and forecasting. CRM Finance – GBS Project (2012 – 2012) • Maintained comprehensive responsibility for month-end close activities, including prepaids, accruals, intercompany, bank reconciliations, acquisition support and reporting in addition to facilitating organization’s transition to new enterprise resource planning platform, Global Business Systems. • Executed project-related financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting for FY 2013. • Performed account reconciliations and prepared overhead budget templates; managed reporting. Principal Financial Analyst, CRV Division (2011 – 2012) • Developed in-depth financial forecasts aggregating historic, trending, and current business data. • Monitored functional and departmental spending versus budget, leveraging system-generated detail and trend reports to highlight material variances; investigated and resolved identified variances. • Produced journal entries and supported month-end close activities to ensure accurate accounting principles at both functional and departmental levels in alignment with GAAP and internal standards. • Generated and disseminated financial reports and informational packages, gathering and analyzing data relevant to current performance; closely collaborated with departmental management to garner understanding of variances and provided support to financial reporting team during report production. • Performed financial analysis to discern operational issues leveraging appropriate financial tools, including EVA and NPV analysis; recommended alternative courses of action for issue resolution. • Evaluated new opportunities and spending initiatives by modeling alternative financial scenarios. • Coordinated annual budget process, strategic planning, and periodic forecasting with executive staff. • Prepare sensitivity analyses that impact expenses and key operating metrics by modeling changes in key variables and developing recommendations for appropriate courses of action.

What they like about Boston Scientific Corporation:

You highly value a work environment built on a formal structure, rules, and regulations. You do not enjoy the unpredictability of shifting priorities and deadlines that upset your routine. You require and enjoy direction, input and accountability as part of your work environment. You have a strong need to participate in making key decisions and feel left out if your superiors or co-workers do not seek your input when making decisions. You thrive on providing good customer service to both internal or external customers, and doing so makes you feel good.

Tags

Financial Analyst, Accountant, Business partner, reconciliation, Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting, Trend analysis, Variance analysis, Statistical analysis, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement analysis, month-end closing, communication, Financial modeling, process development

Skills

MS Excel, Essbase, Process Improvement, Procedures creation, Business partnering, Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, month end close, Data manipulation and analysis, Financial Statement preparation, Systems application, Communication, Financial model creation

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