**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**:
- ** Effective communicators.** People who collect and interpret information accurately and can concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management, and their teams.
- ** Network builders.** Managers who build connections with other teams and divisions and coordinate cross-functional collaboration.
- ** Detail-oriented process improvers**. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize, and automate.
- ** Meticulous documenters**. Detail-oriented people who enjoy maintaining meticulous documentation of reports, metrics, proposals, and presentations.
**What you will do**:
The Innovative business process owner will optimize the finance business processes for the LATAM Region. Responsible for documenting the current processes, recommending improvements, and evaluating the efficiency of changes made to the accounts payable and accounts receivable business processes.
This role will work with the local accounting teams, the shared services organization, the global processes team, and the IT/ PMO teams to ensure best-in-class end-to-end processes and controls.
The individual in this role needs to have strong collaboration, teamwork, influencing, and communication skills. The BPO needs to be an outstanding leader and project manager to ensure proper execution and coordination of work.
- Mapping and documenting existing accounting (record-to-report) processes.
- Evaluating business processes and determining and outlining process improvements,
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- Overseeing all aspects related to the implementation stages of business process improvement initiatives.
- Analyzing and monitoring implemented changes to business processes and adjusting as needed.
- Performing ongoing analyses on business processes related to productivity, quality, costs, and time management.
- Presenting progress reports and integrating feedback.
- Managing relationships with internal stakeholders and Stryker customers.
- Working with Internal and external audit teams to review and enforce policies.
- Complying with Corporate accounting policies, US, and local GAAP.
- Performing other related work as assigned by management.
**What you need**:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, finance, or Business-Related Field
- 6+ years' experience in Accounting, or Finance
- Proficiency with Excel, data skills (must have)
- Fluency in English (must have)
- SAP, Oracle or QAD systems knowledge is a big plus.
- Ability to interpret and analyze data accurately and efficiently
- Versatile, motivated, creative, intellectually curious, an excellent communicator and collaborator
- Working knowledge of US GAAP and SOX.
**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.
