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

This role offers a great opportunity to showcase and develop your strong accounting skills along with your operational skills by working closely with cross-functional departments of the Company, including domestic accounting, payroll operations, benefits and FP&A teams, to execute existing processes and to identify and make continuous process improvements. This will allow you to develop a broad and deep understanding of the Company’s business and operations that are essential for strong career development and professional growth. This role reports to Mgr Corporate Accounting.

Essential Job Duties

• Responsible for recording Payroll, fringe benefits, related cash activities and other compensation and fringe entries, as well as period-end account reconciliations on a monthly basis
• Support monthly and quarterly trend analyses, coordinate with US payroll, accounting, finance, stock administration and benefits teams to resolve any discrepancies at month-end closing and present results to management
• Draft policies, guidelines, desktop procedures, and work instructions to support successful implementation of new projects or enhancements
• Understand the company’s operating model and objectives and how they translate into the need for efficient, standardized, scalable business processes, organizational structures, and operations. Initial focus on end-to-end payroll process
• Analyze existing processes, including documentation of existing and future flows. Define and recommend roadmap for process improvement initiatives
• Support the design and execution of “to-be” processes; work with IT and Subject Matter Experts to collect, define and implement and re-design core processes – define and align business requirements with other business users.  Lead testing scope, review results of user acceptance testing, and create implementation plan
• Lead and present project updates to management and cross-functional teams to enable project alignment
• Identify areas for improvement on internal processes and controls to develop efficiencies within compensation and fringe accounting and other related processes
• Support reviewing and updating accounting methodologies utilized in the accounting processes such as employee benefit plans, CIP bonus, etc.
• Responsible for, together with the Corporate Accounting department, ensuring that we meet our month-end/quarter-end close responsibilities and deadlines
• Assist the Corporate Accounting Team and other accounting and finance departments in implementing strong processes, systems, and procedures to drive efficiencies and high-quality financial reporting
• Support internal and external audit requests and SOX testing requests timely and accurately
• Assist in the identification of automation opportunities across the Compensation and Fringe accounting process and develop solutions using various automation tools such as AI, RPA, excel-automation, SQL, etc.

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication and project management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to drive for resolution
• 4+ years of industry experience in accounting
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and accounting theory
• Detail-oriented, organized, motivated and able to function in a fast-paced environment, especially during quarter-end reporting periods
• Strong fundamental process knowledge (payroll operations, benefits accounting, stock-based compensation) and related internal controls
• Advanced Excel skills

Required Education and Training

University degree in Accounting

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience in Corporate Accounting and/or payroll and benefits accounting in large multi-national.
• Knowledge of SAP, Anaplan, EDW and ADP.
• Familiarity with automation tools such as RPA, excel-automation, SQL, etc.

Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables.

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.