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This is where your insights influence change. As a member of the Baxter Finance team, you have the critical thinking and analytical mindset that allows you to translate data into meaningful, actionable insights that help teams learn and adapt along the way. We guide our internal partners to understand financial opportunities or realities that move Baxter forward and closer to our mission to save and sustain lives. While you often work independently with your cross-functional team, you always have the greater finance organization to lean on for support and career mentoring. This role requires a high-acuity strategic and operational finance leader with responsibility for accelerating the performance of a global, technology‑driven, clinically essential medical devices division of Baxter. This is a capital equipment, connected devices, digital platforms, and cloud-based workflow solutions business, requiring mastery of device economics, software-enabled recurring revenue, and enterprise data systems. The incumbent will provide broad commercial finance leadership driving strategy, margin expansion, cost & capital efficiency, portfolio optimization, digital transformation, and operational excellence to: • Enable Market‑Beating Growth: Growing share through differentiated product strategy, competitive insights, and pricing. • Embed Sustainable Profitability: structural margin gains, mix improvements, and cost optimization. • Advance Operational Excellence: forecast vs. results accuracy, disciplined capital use, stronger portfolio performance, and improved execution.
Job Responsibility
Enable Market‑Beating Growth: Growing share through differentiated product strategy, competitive insights, and pricing
Advance Operational Excellence: forecast vs. results accuracy, disciplined capital use, stronger portfolio performance, and improved execution
Shape FLC’s multi‑year strategy across monitoring, connectivity, analytics, and workflow solutions
Understand procedure drivers and consolidate market models
Partner with the division president as well as other cross functional leaders to pressure-test strategic assumptions, shape long-range financial, product, go-to-market and payment model strategies
Drive portfolio strategy to grow high‑value modalities and rationalize underperforming areas
Develop market, competitive, and multi scenario financial models for long-horizon investments
Understand and anticipate how near‑term decisions [will] influence immediate as well as long‑term customer and distributor behaviors, and guide the business toward sustainable growth and profitability
Accountable for stewarding the full P&L encompassing top-line growth, margin management, and financial planning cycles (e.g. AOP, rolling, LRP)
Strengthen commercial execution in long‑cycle capital equipment environments, indirect and direct channel management, overall go to market channel optimization
Continuously monitor and optimize reimbursement frameworks, pricing architecture, discounting, and tender economics with direct, indirect and Medicare/Medicaid and private insurer payment models
Benchmark against major competitors and integrate market insights into executive decision making to guide differentiation and increased value generation
Financial modeling for both organic and inorganic investments, including due diligence
Improve scalability, standardization, and lifecycle economics
Deliver gross‑margin expansion through COGS reduction, footprint optimization, and supply‑chain improvements
Closely monitor and manage sales, pricing, margin, credit management, and productivity funnels tied directly to P&L impact
Support multi-year capital heavy purchase cycles – drive improvement in tender economics, deal modelling/structuring, and customer financing scenarios
Drive working capital performance, including DSO, DPO, and inventory turns, with clear accountability, governance, and cross-functional execution
Serve as the primary strategic advisor to the FLC President and Baxter CFO, synthesizing complex clinical, operational, and financial signals into strategic insights/recommendations
Establish world‑class forecasting, scenario planning, and KPI dashboards
Manage financial mix, pricing, and margin performance with rigor
Reconcile financial systems with commercial operations to ensure accurate forecasting, revenue recognition, and general cross-functional alignment
Influence high complexity, cross-functional initiatives across commercial, R&D, engineering, manufacturing, and corporate teams
Ensure robust controls across regulated device manufacturing and cybersecurity‑sensitive platforms
Strengthen risk programs consistent with evolving global medical device industry standards
Ensure compliance with accounting policies and controls, including SOX controls
Timely completion of all internal and external audits requests, as well as timely remediation of any findings
Recruit, develop, and inspire high-performing talent/teams
Champion a culture of trust, respect, accountability, and empowerment with transparency, and analytical rigor
Build and lead a global finance team capable of supporting a hybrid hardware‑plus‑software device portfolio across multiple channels and payment models
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
20+ years of experience in strategic finance and/or commercial role required
General knowledge of GAAP accounting principles, tax and legal accounting
Deep experience with capital equipment + consumables + software business models
Experience in connected‑device/cloud‑integrated ecosystems and cybersecurity‑impacted product lines
Prior senior finance leadership roles in medical devices, healthcare technology, or digital health are an asset
Demonstrated turnaround, restructuring, or portfolio‑repositioning experience
Exceptional business acumen and judgment as well as understanding of relevant business environments
Strong negotiation, interpersonal communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
Proven ability to lead multiple, competing priorities
Track record of decisive leadership, with ability to generate ideas, develop alternatives, rapidly decide upon best course of action and drive implementation of that decision
Strong executive presence with ability to influence/drive consensus cross‑functionally and with diverse stakeholders
Skilled at assembling and leading both direct as well as cross-functional teams as required
Nice to have
Professional certification such as CPA
Public accounting or related large public company experience
Knowledge of acquisition accounting
What we offer
Support for Parents
Continuing Education/ Professional Development
Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits
Paid Time Off
2 Days a Year to Volunteer
medical and dental coverage that start on day one
insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching
Flexible Spending Accounts
educational assistance programs
time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave