It started with a simple idea: what if surgery could be less invasive and recovery less painful? Nearly 30 years later, that question still fuels everything we do at Intuitive. As a global leader in robotic-assisted surgery and minimally invasive care, our technologies—like the da Vinci surgical system and Ion—have transformed how care is delivered for millions of patients worldwide.
We’re a team of engineers, clinicians, and innovators united by one purpose: to make surgery smarter, safer, and more human. Every day, our work helps care teams perform with greater precision and patients recover faster, improving outcomes around the world.
The problems we solve demand creativity, rigor, and collaboration. The work is challenging, but deeply meaningful—because every improvement we make has the potential to change a life.
If you’re ready to contribute to something bigger than yourself and help transform the future of healthcare, you’ll find your purpose here.
Primary Function of Position
The Center of Excellence Accounting Manager plays a critical role in delivering consistent, scalable, and high‑quality financial reporting within a COE operating model. This role supports centralized process ownership, governance, and standardization across multiple legal entities and regions. As the Company’s global operations continue to expand, this role addresses increased complexity by owning end‑to‑end accounting and reporting processes and serving as an integrated member of the Controllership function, partnering with regional teams and external service providers.
This role offers a strong opportunity to lead a high‑performing COE team while further developing both accounting and operational skills. The position involves close collaboration with cross‑functional partners to execute standardized, centralized processes and drive continuous. This exposure enables the development of a broad and deep understanding of the Company’s global business and operations, supporting long‑term career growth and professional development.
Essential Job Duties
- Own timely and accurate monthly and quarterly close processes for assigned entities in accordance with US GAAP and Company accounting policies.
- Lead centralized close activities across multiple legal entities, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, variance analysis, intercompany settlements and management reporting.
- Responsible for establishing document, standardizing, and continuously improving global accounting processes, procedures, and internal controls.
- Establish and report Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure compliance with policies and procedures and work with stakeholder partners to monitor effectiveness of procedures.
- Partner with FP&A and business stakeholders on accruals, P&L reviews, and operational insights.
- For entities in scope, oversee fixed asset accounting in accordance with ISI’s Fixed Asset Policy and ensure accurate lifecycle accounting for capital assets, including intercompany transactions and eliminations.
- Lead, develop, and mentor team members, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and scalability.
- Oversee, coordinate and communicate with the accounting/finance teams of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries, or outside service providers, throughout the monthly close process.
- Prepare the financial statements from USGAAP for group reporting to Local GAAP following local statutory and Tax guidelines, in conjunction with local accounting providers.
- Ensure all internal and external audit requests and SOX testing requests are completed by the team timely and accurately
- Establish a continuous improvement environment with the team to identify opportunities for process improvement, opportunities for automation within the existing system infrastructure, and execute such improvements.
- Lead strategic initiatives/projects and ad-hoc projects as required
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in the accounting field.
- Strong fundamental accounting knowledge with a solid understanding of US GAAP.
- Proven people‑management experience.
- Experience supporting multi‑entity accounting in a global organization.
- Ability to operate effectively across geographies, manage competing priorities, and collaborate with diverse, cross‑functional stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
- Highly detail‑oriented, organized, and thorough, with a continuous‑improvement mindset.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills in English.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
- Proficiency in MS Office applications, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
Required Education and Training
- University degree in accounting.
Working Conditions
Preferred Skills and Experience
- CPA and audit (big 4) experience
- Experience supporting multi‑entity accounting in a global organization.
- Experience with an SAP ERP environment
- Strong project management skills, preferably within a centralized or shared services model.
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Aviso sobre los Controles de Exportación de EE. UU.: De acuerdo con las Regulaciones de Administración de Exportaciones de EE. UU. (15 CFR §743.13(b)), algunos puestos en Intuitive Surgical pueden estar sujetos a controles de exportación de EE. UU. para candidatos que sean nacionales de países actualmente bajo embargo o sanciones.
Cierta información que usted proporcione como parte de la solicitud será utilizada para determinar si Intuitive Surgical necesitará (i) obtener una licencia de exportación del gobierno de EE. UU. en su nombre (nota: el proceso de obtención de la licencia puede tardar entre 3 y más de 6 meses) o (ii) implementar un Plan de Control de Tecnología (“TCP”, por sus siglas en inglés) (nota: normalmente este paso agrega 2 semanas al proceso de contratación).
Para cualquier puesto en Intuitive sujeto a controles de exportación, las ofertas finales están condicionadas a la obtención de una licencia de exportación aprobada y/o a la ejecución de un TCP antes de la fecha de inicio del empleado potencial, la cual puede o no ser flexible, y dentro de un plazo que no obstaculice de manera irrazonable la necesidad de contratación. Si aplica, los candidatos serán notificados e instruidos sobre cualquier requisito relacionado con estos fines.
Este puesto puede cubrirse con un nivel de puesto diferente al indicado aquí, según las necesidades del negocio y/o la experiencia, los conocimientos y las habilidades del candidato o la candidata seleccionado. La compensación se basará principalmente en el nivel del puesto en el que se cubra el rol y en las cualificaciones del candidato o la candidata, de conformidad con la legislación aplicable.
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