Edwards Lifesciences Employer Reviews

I have a variety of responsibilities as a Sr. Financial Analyst in the Human Resources Dpt. at Edwards Lifesciences. I am responsible for developing, managing, and reporting on several different HR budgets as well as the US and Puerto Rico fringe benefits budgets. I also oversee many form 5500 filings annually. I assist with annual insurance renewals – more...  including pricing some of our self administered medical plans and doing various reporting and analysis on the claims experience for those plans. I prepare severance calculations as needed. I also do weekly audit and handle the funding for the US 401k employee accounts. Among my other duties is managing the company award program, and preparing analysis and reporting on our employees designated as "High Potential". I have several other responsibilties and I'm involved with a wide range of job tasks in my role. I've learned a great deal in managing the duties mentioned above and have developed a broad understanding of much of what a high functioning HR department can do.

Edwards has a hard working diverse professional culture that also encourages and supports a good work/ life balance. Edwards supports a healthy lifestyle and has a wellness program as well as a basketball court, sand volleyball court, and a new workout facility. – less

Designed and developed a simulator to test the trans-­‐‑catheter heart valve’s torque delivery system.
• Conducted a variety of experiments to test the torque, compression, tension, and fatigue limits of the trans-­‐‑
catheter heart valve and the delivery system.
• Presented demonstrations of the heart valve delivery for doctors, company executives, – more...  and other businesses.
• Participated in meetings and conference calls with a variety biomedical, biotechnology, and mechanical
engineering companies to develop and design a tabletop model of a transparent, pumping heart.
• Engineered mimicked calcified valves to increase accuracy of the trans-­‐‑catheter delivery system simulator. – less

The comapny makes heart valves and patient monitoring systems. You may work in IT but your work is a component of the process that delivers life-saving technology for prople that otherwise, would have no hope. You would be amazed at how many people are alive today thanks to this comany and it's dedicated workers.