Work Flexibility: Hybrid

Position summary:

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and is dedicated to helping healthcare professionals perform their jobs more efficiently while enhancing patient care. Stryker offers a diverse array of innovative medical technologies, including reconstructive, medical and surgical, and neurotechnology and spine products to help people lead more active and more satisfying lives.

As a member of the Inventory Accounting Team, this position will be responsible for complete and accurate inventory balance sheet and P&L reporting while complying with Stryker policies and procedures. 

The ideal candidate for this role will have a background in technical accounting/GAAP, coupled with the ability and desire to apply the concepts to “hands-on,” operational processes. 

Essential duties & responsibilities: (detailed description)

Who We Want

• Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and are dedicated to ensuring a task is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
• Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing problems; they identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
• Effective communicators. People who can interpret information clearly and accurately to concisely communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders, senior management and their teams

What You Will Do

• Engage with business partners to enable insightful analysis and efficient processes to support and challenge strategic decisions
• Collaborate with business partners to timely and accurately execute inventory transactions
• Oversee and support execution of inventory month end responsibilities spread over various team members
• Calculate, reconcile, and analyze Inventory and Inventory reserves for period close; heavily utilizing advanced Excel techniques and/or Power Bi tools.
• Prepare month-end journal entries and formulate required accruals in accordance with GAAP
• Maintain balance sheet accounts associated with the Orthopaedics Division inventory to include gross and net accounts and complete balance sheet reconciliations in accordance with Stryker policies
• Ensure all Inventory reports generated are accurate, complete, and reconcile to the General Ledger.
• As requested, perform ad-hoc analytical support, such as: analyzing inventory trends at various data levels, testing inventory reserve levels for appropriateness and diving into the Orthopaedics supply chain to understand product fluctuations
• Support business on implementation and monitoring of Internal Controls and other Compliance requirements.
• Ensure all Company policies are followed completely and accurately. Responsible for complying with Sarbanes-Oxley and all other applicable financial laws and regulations, company policies and implement corrective actions
• Maintain up-to-date process documentation that follow changes in the business; may require updating or creating advanced Excel formulas and/or Power Bi workspaces or reports

What you need:

Education & special trainings:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting: Required
• CPA:  Preferred
• Experience researching and applying GAAP:  Preferred

Qualifications & experience:

• 3-5 years of experience in a finance function in a matrix international company (preferably American or Multinational company)
• Manufacturing experience preferred
• Public Accounting experience a plus
• Advanced proficiency with Excel (required) .
• Proficiency with Oracle, SAP S4 Hana and/or SAP BW (required)
• Ability to interpret and analyze data accurately and efficiently
• Fluency in English required
• Strong ability to coordinate action across dispersed workforce and highly matrixed organization
• Strong written and verbal skills enabling effective communication with all levels of management
• Effective problem-solving skills

Physical & mental requirements:

• Ability to work well with cross-functional teams and collaborate across multi-functional dotted-line relationships
• Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines consistently
• Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, attention to detail and ability to communicate complicated issues effectively
• Demonstrated ability to perform consistently under varying business pressure as well as ability to adapt to a quickly changing environment
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Attention to detail in making evaluative judgements based on the analysis of information

Travel Percentage: 10%