Senior Accountant at Stryker

Responsibilities

• Shadow the Finance Manager and understand the roles and responsibilities of this function to act as cover when needed.
• Assists the Finance Manager with month end and year end closes and preparation of supporting schedules.
• Development of training guides relating to all reporting duties to ensure continuity and appropriate succession planning.
• Assists the Finance Director with guiding business on new deals that could impact Revenue recognition principles, asset accounting and other governance controls.
• Acts as the project lead for all finance related projects with the support of the rest of the finance team.
• Leads the preparation of quarterly forecasts and annual budgets for all cost centers and business units, sales, orders and margins.
• Provides guidance to junior team members on monthly activities and requests from the business.
• Perform ad hoc requests and queries as requested by Management, the business, regional and corporate team.
• Development of dashboards for management and the business to assist with cost savings and inventory analysis.
• Automate as much of the day to day activities to assist the Finance team with more value adding tasks.
• Support of internal controls with testing and filing of evidence where appropriate.
• Providing supporting documentation and assisting with external audit queries.
• Excel modelling to identify any opportunities and improvements in processes.
• Ensure that Stryker’s Compliance and Ethics program is followed at all times and that there is strict adherence to the Code of Conduct in all interactions.