Associate 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**:Together, we can change healthcare worldwide. At Medtronic, we push the limits of what technology can do to help alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. We challenge ourselves and each other to make tomorrow better than yesterday. It is what makes this an exciting and rewarding place to be.
We can accelerate and advance our ability to create meaningful innovations - but we will only succeed with the right people on our team. Let’s work together to address universal healthcare needs and improve patients’ lives. Help us shape the future.

Come strengthen your specialized skills and enhance your expertise. We’ll support you with the training, mentorship, guidance, and networks you need to advance, and empower you to work in the way that’s best for you. Together, we can confront the challenges that will change the face of healthcare. Join us for a career that changes lives. This is a hybrid position in Bogotá.

**Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned**:

- Maintain the control of accounts and records in such areas as disbursements, expenses, tax payments and income
- Compile and analyze financial information to record transactions, prepare reports, and review and verify accuracy
- Prepares balance sheet, profit and loss and cash flow statements, prepares and consolidates financial statements, and other accounting schedules and reports
- Design, modify, install, and/or maintain accounting systems to ensure an adequate recognition of financial transactions
- Responsible for the adherence to and communication of accounting and auditing policies and procedures and internal controls
- Support in the month end close
- Provide for technical support and accounting of M&A activities
- Obversee technical accounting research for complex business transactions and implementation of new accounting standards
- Participate actively in the knowledge transfer process, transition and go live of work done at the local level in Americas (NA, Canada and LATAM) and transitioning to the R2R SSC in Bogota
- Communicate actively with our clients and other members of the team promoting standardization of process and continuous improvement for the activities conduct by R2R

**Required Knowledge and Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or financial careers
- One or Three years of relevant experience in General Accounting, recent graduates are also welcomed to apply
- Fluent in English
- Advanced knowledge with Excel
- Knowledge with SAP experience is advantageous

Experience with Blackline is a nice to have.

**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.

**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 90,000+ 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.