Intuitive · 6 hours ago
Director, IT Business Applications – Finance
Sunnyvale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$206K/yr - $310K/yr
10+ years expIntuitive is a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, dedicated to enhancing minimally invasive care. The Director of IT Business Applications for Finance will lead technology solutions for key enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with financial operations and driving innovation through effective stakeholder management and team leadership.
Health CareManufacturingMedical Device
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary IT owner for Anaplan, SAP, and Varicent solutions and platforms, developing strategic road maps, executing on annual commitments in alignment with business priorities, and managing ongoing production stability and operations in partnership with various IT teams and vendors
Oversee the design, configuration, integration, and enhancement of these applications to support evolving financial, operational, and sales performance needs
Stay ahead of technology trends and vendor capabilities to drive innovation. Develop, share, curate points of view on process simplification and scale to inform future roadmaps
Partner closely with the functional and IT Data, Analytics and AI teams, creating strong collaboration and unity in driving towards excellence in data governance, quality, and curation in service to advanced automation capabilities in service to Finance
Build and maintain strong trusted relationships with Finance, Product Ops Finance, and Sales Ops Finance leadership teams
Collaborate closely with Senior business leaders to understand strategic goals, translate them into application initiatives, and deliver measurable results
Communicate progress, challenges, and opportunities transparently to both business and IT leadership
Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing IT applications team, fostering continuous improvement and professional growth
Set clear goals, measure performance, and recognize achievements
Operational excellence is a #1 priority for this role, requiring personal accountability, attention to technical detail, and leadership capability to establish clear KPIs and foster a sense of extreme ownership and urgency across all teams related to maintaining high quality, reliability, and stability of core processes and outcomes of monthly, quarterly and annual close, reporting and forecasting cycles
Ensure high system availability, data accuracy, and compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements
Implement robust change management, release planning, and governance processes
Manage vendor relationships for Anaplan, SAP, and Varicent, ensuring service quality and cost-effectiveness
Establish realistic prioritization, estimates, resource plans, and scope expectations for all initiatives impacting this portfolio, leveraging solid best practice processes and personal experience and knowledge. Professionally challenge optimism and enthusiasm that lacks supporting data and qualitative inputs
Oversee project delivery from concept to deployment, ensuring hit rate achievement on timeline, budget and success metrics, in partnership with business counterparts and vendors
Coordinate cross-functional project teams and manage dependencies across multiple platforms
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Finance, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
10+ years in IT or business systems leadership roles, with proven expertise in financial planning, Sales comp and supporting product operations finance
Ideally, the candidate will have experience operating at a technical Director level for 3+ years in high growth, dynamic and scaling environments
Strong track record of partnering with Finance organizations, including FP&A, Product Operations Finance, and Sales Operations Finance
Experience leading small but highly effective teams within a complex, matrixed organization
Demonstrated success engaging with senior executives, including SVPs, to influence strategic technology decisions
Excellent verbal and written communication required
Proven track record with stakeholder management / business relationship management
Comfort with in-person presentations and exceptional preparation capabilities
Strategic thinking combined with hands-on application management capabilities
Ability to apply contextual information, maintain objectivity, and manage conflict professionally and to impactful beneficial results
Vendor management and negotiation skills
Strong understanding of financial processes, reporting, and operational efficiency drivers
Strong cross functional collaboration with other teams
Proactive mindset, strong sense of urgency, driven to action in identifying problems to ensuring successful resolution and root cause analysis for continuous improvement
Preferred
Master's degree
Benefits
Market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity
Company
Intuitive
Intuitive designs and manufactures robotic-assisted surgical systems.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5MKey Investors
St. Cloud Capital
2003-04-30Post Ipo Equity
2000-06-23IPO
1996-01-01Seed· $5M
Leadership Team
Craig Child
Sr. Vice President, Human Resources
Gillian Duncan
Senior Vice President, Professional Education & Program Services - Worldwide
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