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The Role
The Accountant is responsible for month-end closing, fixed assets processes, financial reporting, and general accounting. Duties include journal entry preparation, account reconciliation, compliance with SOX controls, and supporting internal and external audits. The role requires close collaboration with local accounting teams to address discrepancies and ensure accurate financial reporting.
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Work Flexibility: Hybrid
What you will do
Essential duties & responsibilities:
- Responsible for assigned month end closing activities, fixed assets processes, cash, financial reporting, and other accounting related tasks.
- Performs accurate and timely preparation of journal entries and relevant supporting documentation.
- Performs general accounting activities, including the preparation, maintenance and reconciliation of ledger accounts and financial statements such as balance sheets, profit-and-loss statements
- Responsible to execute assigned SOX controls and other activities related to internal and external audit requirements.
- Support on deliver performance metrics (KPI´s) to Supervisor.
- Work closely with markets and local accounting teams to resolve discrepancies, issues, and queries in a timely manner by escalating to Supervisor as required.
- Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and internal controls to guarantee timely and accurate financial reporting.
- Performs other related work to accounting cycle.
What you need
Education & special trainings:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business or related field
- MS Office Suite
- Intermediate excel level (pivot table, formulas, charts)
- Fluent spoken and written English and Spanish.
- SAP, Oracle or QAD systems knowledge is a big plus
Qualifications & experience:
- 2-3 years of relevant working experience in a finance/accounting 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
Travel Percentage: 10%
Top Skills
Excel
Oracle
Qad
SAP
The Company
What We Do
Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 130 million patients annually. More information is available at www.stryker.com.
Together with our customers, we are driven to make healthcare better.