Principal Financial Analyst - Global Supply Chain

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global leader, we advance science by providing high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce healthcare costs.

About The Role

The Principal Financial Analyst, FP&A, is a senior individual contributor and strategic finance advisor responsible for translating business strategy and leader intent into scalable FP&A processes, governance, analytics, and operating rhythms. This role works across business units, functions, and leadership teams to align priorities and assumptions, frame choices, and improve the quality and speed of decision-making. The Principal Financial Analyst assesses the current state, defines the future state, and builds or materially redesigns processes, tools, and service models. The successful candidate combines deep FP&A expertise, systems thinking, assertive and independent thought partnership, a strong customer-service orientation, and the ability to lead complex change from concept through sustained adoption.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic finance advisor to senior leaders and translate business strategy and leader intent into financial priorities, operating metrics, decision frameworks, governance, and execution cadence.
• Shape resource-allocation, portfolio, investment, cost, and performance decisions through scenario planning, business cases, sensitivity analysis, and clear articulation of tradeoffs.
• Build trusted relationships across business units and functions, create alignment around shared priorities, and resolve conflicting assumptions, dependencies, and decision criteria.
• Define and model a stakeholder-service approach that balances responsiveness, standardization, self-service, financial discipline, and strategic value, and establish clear expectations and measures of service effectiveness.
• Design, build, and continuously evolve end-to-end FP&A processes for annual planning, rolling forecasts, long-range planning, performance reviews, headcount, capital, resource allocation, and other finance mechanisms, as applicable.
• Assess current-state processes and operating models; identify gaps, control risks, duplicative work, manual effort, unclear ownership, and decision bottlenecks; define the future state and a practical roadmap tied to strategy.
• Develop scalable driver-based models, dashboards, analytical frameworks, and management-review materials that connect operational performance to financial outcomes and focus leaders on the decisions that matter most.
• Lead complex, high-ambiguity analyses and present recommendations to senior leadership, governance forums, and steering committees; ensure decisions, owners, and follow-through actions are clear.
• Set FP&A best practices, standard methods, and reusable templates; coach and mentor Senior Financial Analysts and other partners, and build ownership so improvements remain effective after implementation.
• Ensure new and existing processes comply with accounting policies, GAAP, SOX requirements, internal controls, data governance, and audit expectations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive Accounting/Finance experience.
• Experience working with Hyperion, SAP.
• Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with large data sets.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results to non-finance partners.
• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive FP&A experience in inventory/cost accounting activities within manufacturing, medical equipment, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or similarly regulated, innovation-driven industries.
• Experience supporting global supply chain or manufacturing environments, including exposure to inventory management, standard costing, and quality-related processes.
• Project accounting experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to influence business partners and drive process improvements.
• Experience leading planning-system, Power BI report building, data/process automation, or finance-transformation initiatives.
• Experience with process improvement, workflow automation, system implementation, or change adoption.
• Experience mentoring analysts or leading project teams through influence.

Pay

Minimum Salary: $102,100. Maximum Salary: $194,000. The anticipated compensation will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors such as experience, education, and certifications.

Benefits

Boston Scientific offers a comprehensive benefits package, including core and optional employee benefits. For more details, visit www.bscbenefitsconnect.com.