**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**
- Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced, complex environment and are dedicated to ensuring a task is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
- Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing problems; they identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
- Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management and their teams
**What You Will Do**
Build, manage and develop team of accounting professionals, including setting of annual objectives and completion of the team annual reviews.
- Manage the annual cost roll for all divisions in scope of the Inventor COE (SAP and non-SAP) ensuring highest level of accuracy and completeness of all cost information in affected ERPs.
- Partnering with IT to drive continuous improvement and automation of routine product costing procedures, particularly the daily reconciliations of cost information between SAP and the "Stryker Global Item Master" platform
- Bring the current process to monitor and resolve aged GRIR (good receipts/invoice receipts) items to the next level in collaboration with all involved Finance and Supply Chain functions
- Calculate, reconcile, and analyze intercompany Goods in Transit for period close.
- Perform complex ad-hoc analyses to investigate and resolve material variances or reconciling items related to PPV, GRIR or GIT and respond to queries from business Finance teams and Finance leadership.
- Prepare the more complex month end journal entries, review and approve those journals completed by the team members.
- Ensure all inventory reports generated by SAP are accurate, complete, and reconcile to the General Ledger.
- Support SAP system configuration, testing and wave deployments.
- Prepare the more complex accounting reconciliations, review and approve reconciliations completed by the team members in accordance with Stryker policies.
- Maintain process documentation (DTP's) and narratives ensuring they are kept up to date.
- Support external and internal audits, ensuring all requests are completed in a timely manner, any findings are appropriately challenged, and management actions plans completed.
- Partner with the Senior Manager in developing strong communication channels with the business units, scoping and implementation of any reporting requirements (SAP BW), and executing any inventory related projects. (including future transitions)
- Ensure all internal controls and other compliance requirements are fulfilled.
- Run or participate in special projects as requested.
Education & special trainings:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Business-Related Field: Required
Qualifications & experience:
- 6+ years' experience in Audit, Accounting, or Finance (must have)
- Inventory / Manufacturing experience required
- Proficiency with Excel, data skills (must have)
- Proficiency with SAP S4 Hana and SAP BW (must have)
- Ability to interpret and analyze data accurately and efficiently
- Fluency in English (must have)
Physical & mental requirements:
- Strong ability to coordinate action across dispersed workforce and highly matrixed organization
- Strong written and verbal skills enabling effective communication with all levels of management
- Effective analytical and problem-solving skills
**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.