Lead Accountant

**Why finance at Stryker?**:
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The accounting lead is a key member of the RTR Team, reporting directly to the Collections Manager. The person in this role is responsible for being the first escalation point of contact for internal and external customers and tracking, evaluating and correcting the operational performance of RTR team.

**Who we Want**:

- ** Analytical problem solvers. **People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.
- ** Goal-oriented**:Keeping the customer and requirements squarely in focus, people who deliver safe and robust solutions.
- ** Collaborative partners.** People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.
- ** Dedicated achievers.** People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.
- ** Detail-oriented process improvers.** Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes - finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

**What you will do**

**Essential duties & responsibilities**:

- Manage analysis of balance sheet and P&L transactions.
- Approve Account Reconciliations and journal entries
- Working closely with Supervisor and Associate manager to drive process improvement
- Strive for cross-functional alignment to achieve End-To-End Process Harmonization
- Monitoring and optimization of business processes with regards to efficiency and effectiveness
- Maintain business partnerships with other client departments, locations and regions, and internal customers/suppliers.
- Support the accountants and senior accountants’ positions in the team by promoting a team environment and provide work direction and guidance.
- Complete special projects as assigned.

**What you need**:
**Education & special trainings**:

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
- Proficiency in the English language
- Computer Literacy: MS Office, particularly Excel
- ERP System (SAP, Oracle or QAD)

**Qualifications & experience**:

- 4-5 years of relevant working experience in a finance function in matrixed international company (preferably American or Multinational company) with complex reporting practices and with exposure to various reporting systems
- Experience of working in a shared service center across a global /large organization will be an added advantage

**Physical & mental requirements**:

- Ability to work well with cross-functional teams and multi-task
- Versatile, motivated, creative, intellectually curious, an excellent communicator and collaborator
- Demonstrated ability to perform consistently under varying business pressure as well as ability to adapt to a quickly changing environment
- Highly organized with demonstrated ability to meet commitments within strict deadlines
- Effective problem-solving skills

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**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.