**Sr. Accountant - Costa Rica**:
- Remote Eligible: Hybrid- Onsite Location(s): San José, H, CR**Additional Locations**: Costa Rica-Coyol; Costa Rica-Heredia
**Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance**
At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing - whatever your ambitions.
**Purpose Statement**
Performs a variety of complex duties in general accounting such as analyzing accounts, preparing reports, reconciling intercompany accounts, and performing the monthly financial close and consolidation, initiating bank transfers, maintaining fixed assets and CIP, and maintaining & performing software interfaces with SAP. Measures performance against key performance indicators and metrics, and continually identifies ways to improve and streamline processes.
**Requirements**:
- Strong team player but also a strong individual worker
- Strong communication, written and verbal, and collaborations skills
- Proactive
- SAP experience
- Strong reconciliation skills
- Promotes continuous improvements
- Strong Excel skills
- Tableau experience, experience with similar ETL-type tools
- Public Accountant; minimum 7-10 years of industry experience
**Key Responsibilities**
- Oversees the maintenance of accounts and records by managing disbursements, expenses, and income.
- Compiles and analyzes financial information through the preparation of reports, general ledger entries, and journal entries.
- Assures financial accuracy by preparing business unit and consolidated income statements and balance sheets and other accounting statements and reports.
- Designs, modifies, installs, and maintains general accounting systems to provide records of assets, liabilities, and financial transactions.
- Establishes and communicates accounting policies by maintaining a thorough understanding of GAP and new accounting guidance as appropriate.
- Takes an active interest in seeking opportunities for continuous improvement, and standardizing processes across multiple legal entities.
- Works to deliver upon key performance metrics and service levels agreed upon with business partners.
- Specific to the fixed asset specialty: Process capital requests and maintain fixed asset database.
- Specific to travel specialty: Responsible for monitoring adherence to travel and expense policies by auditing reports, ensuring accuracy of expense reporting and maintains interfaces.
**Requisition ID**:564200
**Job Segment**:Accounting, Bank, Banking, Database, SAP, Finance, Technology
