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Why finance at Stryker?

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

Insightful advisors. Managers who lead strategy development and provide guidance to teams

Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure business goals and objective are met.

Collaborators. Relationship-savvy people who intentionally make and strengthen connections with both internal partners and external customers.

What you will do

In this role, you will support the director(s) within the Global Inventory COE for your designated business areas (O&S, MSNT, Europe, international or GQO). Your primary role will be managing the financial impact of inventory specific to your business area (one or more divisions), which includes having a full understanding of technical inventory accounting, advanced analytics, financial reporting, variance analysis, and forecasting. Additionally, you will support for all stakeholder management within your business area, along with quarterbacking and resolving accounting issues, policy disputes, and/or business changes leading to financial impacts As the primary point-of-contact for your area, you will support in leading all inventory related business support, during and at month end cycles, including all Flash call support and commentary, Balance Sheet reviews, Cash Flow comments and analysis, projections/budget cycles, and any business initiatives related to optimizing inventory, supporting transitions of accounting or inventory work, or system implementations. This role does not have any direct reports in first instance.

Responsibilities may include:

• Business Support:

• Supporting the director(s) for setting direction together with higher management within the Global Inventory COE for the business partnering role and strategy

• Responsible for one or more specific groups or business areas (NV, Medical, Ortho, Spine, Endo and others).

• Responsible for building a close relationship/partnership with your allocated division on topics like: market insights, PLCM, new initiatives supporting inventory optimization (also in collaboration with Operations), being the point-of-contact for business and rest of Global Inventory COE, leading the flash calls from an Inventory standpoint, provide timely awareness to business or to COE teams, supporting inventory related decisions, attend or supporting business reviews, and participating on mergers/acquisitions

• Responsible for understanding the accounting world behind inventory and the specific business processes in place in your area of responsibility in order to bridge real-world inventory movement with specific accounting transactions and adjustments

• Supporting the director(s) for identifying and defining all reporting needs to precisely and effectively report on metrices, KPI's, variances and progress, and the story behind the inventory numbers

• Responsible for timely escalations to relevant stakeholders and proactively finding solutions with alignment on resolving disputes and disagreements

• Month end:

• Supporting and driving the monthly closing comments on actuals and where possible any deviations towards projections/budget with Divisional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain and Global Finance Service Centers (GFS) teams

• Communication/relationships:

• Responsible for effectively communicating relevant information to all stakeholders, with as main stakeholders the divisional business, being single point of contact for the business versus other departments of the Global Inventory COE

• Proactively communicate changes in business trends, local business decisions or other issues that may have a financial impact and are accounting related

• Informing and aligning with the director(s) in the US and Europe (and other regions) for the business partnering part for the respective divisions

• Planning:

• Support the planning process with the internal Inventory COE team for the divisions on preparing forecast models, consolidations, and coordination of projection calls where applicable

• Provide quality inputs into business projections and budget processes

• Management:

• Supporting the Global Inventory Business support team by setting direction, developing talent, and empowering their development to support the strategy for the Global Inventory COE

• Compliance:

• Manager will support where needed/applicable for Internal and External Audits (mainly SOX related)

• Responsible for supporting compliance related activities based on the daily tasks within Business Support for Global Inventory COE (like last time buys, bridge buys, exceptions on policies etc.) in close collaboration with Compliance Inventory COE team and Technical Accounting team

• Other:

• Support in process improvements (use of BOTS/RPA/Alterix/Others)

• Participate in inventory project related items and actively deliver input, such as, further integrations, transitions, and system implementations

• Responsible for all ad-hoc questions related to inventory business support

What you need

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or equivalent is required (Master's preferred)

• Fluent in English

• Other languages such as Spanish/Polish/Dutch are nice to have

• CPA qualification preferred

• Excellent working knowledge & understanding of US GAAP is required

Experience

• 8+ years experience in a complex inventory and/or other complex accounting functions in global organizations

• ​Experience navigating and influencing in a matrix organization or working in a COE is required

• Experience with complex and detailed inventory accounting is required

• Should have the ability to see the 'big picture' and yet able to resolve day to day issues if required

• Oracle/SAP/MFG/JDE experience is a nice to have.

Competencies

• The ability to build working relationships

• Influencing skills

• Ability to establish and communicate priorities

• Ability to organize resources and effectively manage projects to achieve objectives

• High level of honesty, integrity, commitment, and responsibility

• Accustomed to working under pressure and with deadlines

• Able to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization

• Able to resolve problems and conflicts in a professional and tactful manner

• Able to identify and implement innovative solutions to meet business requirements

• Ability to work independently with limited guidance

• Ability to roll up the sleeves for documentation purpose and admin

• Pro-active

• Good relator with other stakeholders

• Analytical

• Accurate

• Advanced Excel knowledge, robotics and programming is a plus

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.

More information is available at stryker.com (http://www.stryker.com./)

Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.