Senior Manager, Flex Financial EU Controller

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Senior level
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The Role
The Senior Manager has accountability for internal controls, finance processes, and commercial transactions for Flex EU, ensuring compliance and efficiency while partnering with various teams to drive improvements in financial governance and risk management.
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Work Flexibility: Hybrid

As Senior Manager, Flex Financial EU Controller, you will serve as a core member of the Flex Finance EU - Finance Leadership Team, responsible for overseeing all accounting and internal controls related to Flex transactions.

Internal Controls & Risk Management

  • Collaborate with Europe financial compliance, countries, and Poland Finance center to ensure all Flex related internal controls are designed, implemented, and operating as intended correctly. Ensure controls are aligned to SOX and internal financial governance expectations.
  • Identify control gaps, emerging risks, or breakdowns in execution and partner with accountable teams to remediate issues in a timely manner.
  • Maintain process flow narratives and internal control matrices to ensure accurate accounting records and optimized business processes.
  • Provide support with financial audits and partner with business partners to remediate audit findings and implement process improvements.
  • Serve as a key liaison to Internal Audit and Compliance for transaction‑specific control reviews and walkthroughs.

Governance, Policy & RACI Ownership

  • Develop, document, and continuously maintain a clear and current RACI covering all phases of Flex EU sales transactions, including deal approval, accounting assessment, system setup, billing, monitoring, and close‑out.
  • Ensure roles and responsibilities across Commercial, Flex EU, Countries, Poland Finance Center, and other stakeholders remain well‑defined and consistently executed.

Process Excellence & Continuous Improvement

  • Drive standardization and simplification of transaction workflows where possible, balancing commercial flexibility with strong financial controls.
  • Identify opportunities to improve transparency, documentation quality, and control efficiency across transaction types.
  • Support training and enablement for finance and commercial teams on complex transaction requirements and expectations.

Business Partnering & Transaction Oversight

  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with Flex EU, divisional, local countries, Europe central team, and Poland Finance Center business partners.
  • Provide accounting guidance and support for all Flex EU programs and sales transactions, ensuring deals are structured and executed in compliance with accounting standards, company policies, and internal governance frameworks.
  • Ensure transactions are administered correctly from deal inception through execution, billing, settlement, and post‑close monitoring.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior finance and business leadership on transaction risk, control implications, and process design

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
  • 8+ years of accounting (public and private preferred) and/or finance experience.
  • Strong business acumen with demonstrated ability to support and influence senior leaders.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, including group presentation skills.
  • Proficiency in navigating financial systems.
  • Ability to support business ventures and complex finance deals.
  • Highly analytical with strong attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage multiple requirements simultaneously and meet tight deadlines with accuracy.
  • Commitment to excellence and high standards.
  • Collaborative and flexible, with a willingness to work in a fast-paced environment.
  • Organized and detail-oriented with the ability to clearly communicate information.
  • Critical thinker with the ability to optimize work processes and find ways to simplify, standardize, and automate.
  • Strong interpersonal skills for building and leveraging cross-functional relationships
  • Advanced understanding of business strategy, financial accounting, FP&A, reporting, and budgeting.

Preferred

  • CPA/Chartered Accountant strongly preferred
  • Six-sigma / process improvement training a plus
  • Experience in medical devices and/or equipment financing preferred.

Travel Percentage: 10%

Top Skills

Financial Systems
Sox Compliance
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The Company
HQ: Kalamazoo, MI
51,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1941

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.

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