**Why finance at Stryker?
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Are you looking for a profitable and growing company with a great culture and reputation?
Stryker is the only company with 40 consecutive years of sales growth and 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!
Position summary:
The Accountant is a key member of the RTR Team, responsible for being the first escalation point of contact for internal customers, track, evaluate and propose improvements to the operational performance of RTR team.
**Essential duties & responsibilities**:
- Perform complex account reconciliations and MEC processes and complex accounting issues
- Identify and lead opportunities to improve, automate, simplify, or standardize processes; creates projects to execute on those opportunities.
- Coordinate closing and other key deliverables assigned by Supervisor.
- Coordinate migration of R2R processes from countries in scope.
- Review and approve Journal entries, account reconciliations and financial statements as assigned.
- Build monitor and report operational metrics to Supervisor and Management on a regular basis.
- Assess training requirements for new/ or existing team members.
- Ensures documentation of processes and procedures are properly updated and approved.
- Responsible to execute assigned SOX controls and other activities related to internal and external audit requirements.
- Work closely with markets and local accounting teams to resolve discrepancies, issues, and queries in a timely manner by escalating to Supervisor as required.
- Build strong relationship with key stakeholders.
- Be an active leader in the Issue resolution team.
- Supports ad-hoc tasks and requests as needed.
**Education & special trainings**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related field with a strong accounting background.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel (Intermediate level: PivotTables, VLOOKUP, macros, charts, formulas, etc.)
- English level B2+
- JDE systems knowledge is a plus
**Qualifications & experience**:
- 3+ years of relevant working experience preferably from Finance background in General Accounting activities: Journal entries processing, Account Reconciliations, Financial Reporting and Analysis, fixed assets, etc.
- Experience of working in a shared service center across a global /large organization/ matrixed international company (preferably American or Multinational company) will be an added advantage.
- Working knowledge of US GAAP and SOX is a plus
**Other requirements**:
- Strong skills to review and approve journal entries and reconciliations are critical
- Ability to work collaboratively with peers, and cross-functionally within the company
- Ability to work independently and multi-tasking
- Flexible, proactive Ability to deal with ambiguity
- Strong analytical and technical accounting skills
- Detail oriented, versatile, highly motivated, deadline driven, and ability to communicate effectively.
- Highly organized with demonstrated ability to meet commitments within strict deadlines
- Flexibility in scheduling due to business requirements (i.e., month-end close)
**About Stryker**:
Stryker is one of the world's leading medical technology companies and, together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better.
The company offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes.
Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.