**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**:
- ** Collaborative partners.** People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices
- ** 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.
- ** Detail-oriented process improvers.** Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.
- ** 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.
**What you will do**:
The Senior Accounting Analyst is responsible of performing complex accounting tasks, including journal entries and account reconciliation approvals, and other accounting related activities.
- Performs complex accounting activities within Month end closing, journal entries, fixed assets processes, cash, financial reporting, account reconciliations and other related processes.
- Review and approve Journal entries and account reconciliations as assigned.
- Performs and reviews Financial Statement analysis
- Support on coordination for closing and other key deliverables assigned by Supervisor or Lead analyst.
- Support on coordination of migration of R2R processes from countries in scope.
- 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.
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and internal controls to guarantee timely and accurate financial reporting.
**Education & special trainings**:
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or related field
- Working knowledge of US GAAP and SOX is a plus
- SAP systems knowledge is a plus
- English level B2
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel (Intermediate level: PivotTables, VLOOKUP, macros, charts, formulas, etc.)
**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
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