About this role
Work Flexibility: Hybrid
Join Stryker’s Finance team in a senior accounting role responsible for complex general accounting activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, financial reporting, and month-end close. You will also review key accounting activities, support process coordination, and maintain compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.
What you will do
• Serve as a subject matter expert for general accounting processes and provide guidance to new and existing team members. • Perform complex accounting activities, including month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, fixed assets, cash accounting, financial reporting, and financial statement analysis. • Review and approve journal entries and account reconciliations for assigned entities, ensuring accuracy and appropriate supporting documentation. • Coordinate closing activities and other key accounting deliverables in collaboration with the Supervisor or Lead Analyst. • Execute assigned Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls and support internal and external audit requirements while maintaining compliance with accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls. • Partner with local accounting teams and markets to investigate discrepancies, resolve accounting issues and queries, and escalate matters when required. • Support the migration of accounting processes across countries in scope and create and maintain related process and procedure documentation. • Identify root causes of accounting issues and opportunities to simplify, standardize, or improve accounting processes and operational efficiency.
What you will need
Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field. • Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in finance or general accounting. • Experience with journal entry processing, account reconciliations, financial reporting and analysis, fixed assets, or related general accounting activities. • English proficiency at B2 level. • Intermediate Microsoft Excel proficiency, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, macros, charts, and formulas. Preferred
• Experience working in a shared services environment or within a large, global, or multinational organization. • Working knowledge of US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements. • Experience using SAP or JD Edwards.
Travel Percentage: 10%