**Why finance at Stryker?**:
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Are you looking for a profitable and growing company with a great culture and reputation? Stryker was recently named one of the Best Workplace in the WORLD by Fortune! Here, you will have many opportunities to learn and grow as we offer development opportunities unique for each employees needs including training, certifications, mentorship, leadership programs, tuition reimbursement, one-on-one coaching and more!
**Who we Want**:
- ** Analytical problem solvers. **People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
- ** Goal-oriented**:Keeping the customer and requirements squarely in focus, people who deliver safe and robust solutions.
- ** Collaborative partners.** People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.
- ** Dedicated achievers.** People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
- ** Detail-oriented process improvers.** Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate
**What you will do**
The Period End Accountant will be primarily responsible for executing accounting journal entries related to assigned entities in Stryker's newly created Costa Rica Shared Service Center.
**Essential duties & responsibilities**:
- Perform manual journal entries for assigned entities
- Review and analyze accounting transactions and related financial reports to ensure accuracy and completeness and provide explanations to business partners
- Collaborate with the Accounting Reconciliation team to standardize chart of account and its usage
- Provide support to business on request related to journal/recon backups
- Support month end closing process as deem necessary
- Comply with Corporate accounting policies, US and local GAAP
- Performs other related work as assigned by management
**Education & special trainings**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business or related field
- MS Office Suite
- Fluent spoken and written English and Spanish. Portuguese is a plus
- SAP, Oracle or QAD systems knowledge is a big plus
**Qualifications & experience**:
- Bachelor's degree required, Master's degree preferred
- 1-2 years of relevant working experience in a finance function in matrixed international company (preferably American or Multinational company) with complex reporting practices and with exposure to various reporting systems
- Experience of working in a shared service center across a global /large organization will be an added advantage
- CPA or other accounting certification would be a plus
**Physical & mental requirements**:
- Ability to work well with cross-functional teams and multi-task
- Versatile, motivated, creative, intellectually curious, a good communicator and collaborator
- Demonstrated ability to perform consistently under varying business pressure as well as ability to adapt to a quickly changing environment
- Computer or technical knowledge
- Effective problem-solving skills
**About Stryker