Job DescriptionPrimary Function of Position:The Business Process Lead, FP&A Transformation is the enterprise process owner for how forecasting is designed, executed, and continuously improved at Intuitive. This high-impact individual contributor will lead the transformation of legacy, manual, and fragmented workflows into a simpler, faster, and more accurate forecasting operating model. Working with FP&A leadership across the organization, this role translates business needs into scalable processes, aligns stakeholders, pilots improvements, and drives sustained adoption.
The successful candidate is a systems thinker, process architect, and change leader who creates clarity in ambiguity, challenges unnecessary complexity, and connects process design to measurable outcomes. Success will be reflected in a forecasting model that is faster, simpler, more accurate, well governed, and consistently adopted across FP&A. Innovative thinking to challenge the current state to fully transform the forecast process.
Role and Responsibilities:- Diagnose and Design: Map end-to-end forecasting workflows, handoffs, decision points, rework loops, and elapsed-time gaps.
- Identify root causes related to ownership, decision rights, data readiness, calendar design, and manual workarounds.
- Design the future-state operating model, including workflow sequencing, inputs and outputs, decision gates, escalation paths, and integration points.
- Prioritize, Pilot, and Scale: Build a transformation roadmap that sequences process, data, and automation opportunities by value, feasibility, risk, readiness, and dependencies.
- Facilitate prioritization decisions with Finance leadership and clearly communicate trade-offs.
- Design and lead pilots with defined scope, success measures, timelines, and learning objectives.
- Measure outcomes, refine the approach, and scale proven changes while maintaining process integrity.
- Track adoption and outcomes using measures such as cycle time, rework, compliance, engagement, and forecast accuracy trends.
- Establish feedback loops and governance to sustain improvements.
QualificationsRequired Skills and Experience:- 8+ years of progressive experience in business process excellence, finance transformation, FP&A operations, or a related discipline.
- Experience partnering with Data, Systems, or Technology teams without directly owning technical delivery.
- Success leading enterprise-scale process redesign from diagnosis through future-state design, pilot, rollout, and adoption.
- Expertise with AI/ML-enabled forecasting and responsible integration of model outputs into financial processes.
- Experience translating ambiguous problems into process blueprints, RACIs, decision gates, requirements, and prioritized roadmaps.
- Lean Six Sigma, BPM, Design Thinking, or formal change management training or certification.
- Proficiency with process-mapping tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, or Miro.
- Hands-on experience facilitating process mapping and cross-functional working sessions.
- Executive communication skills for VP- and C-suite audiences.
- This role requires working onsite in our Sunnyvale, CA office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday every week.
Required Education and Training:- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Operations, Data Analytics, Information Systems or a related field.
Preferred Skills and Experience:- FP&A transformation experience, including forecasting operating model redesign, planning-cycle optimization, or driver-based planning.
- Ability to influence without authority across senior leaders, business owners, and technical teams.
- Strong analytical capabilities and experience evaluating transformation outcomes.
- Experience in a publicly traded technology or medical-device company and a SOX-compliant environment.
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Additional InformationDue to the nature of our business and the role, please note that Intuitive and/or your customer(s) may require that you show current proof of vaccination against certain diseases including COVID-19. Details can vary by role.
We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, benefits, and equity. It would not be typical for someone to be hired at the top end of range for the role, as actual pay will be determined based on several factors, including experience, skills, and qualifications. The target compensation ranges are listed.
