Lead Analyst, Financial Compliance- Hybrid

What You Will Do

As the Lead Analyst, Financial Compliance, you will play an integral role in ensuring financial statements and accounting practices are compliant with SOX, GAAP, and internal Stryker policies. As a member of the MSNT Financial Compliance team supporting the MSNT Group, you will be a key driver of the Group and Divisions’ compliance offense.

• Drive standardization of key financial assumptions and SOX controls across divisions, identifying opportunities for process improvement and efficiency.
• Execute balance sheet review processes including preparation of quarterly CFO reporting packages and support for management reviews.
• Oversee account reconciliation monitoring, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and continuous improvement of reconciliation processes.
• Manage compliance with Corporate Finance policies by reviewing non-GAAP charges, monitoring project spend, and ensuring adherence to policy requirements.
• Review and communicate policy updates, summarizing new Corporate Finance issuances and ensuring clear dissemination across teams.
• Lead financial compliance initiatives, including quarterly meetings with divisional and BU finance leaders to align on standards and practices.
• Develop ad hoc analyses for balance sheet and P&L to support management decision-making.
• Be a collaborative partner by having a track record of building strong cross-functional relationships and influencing stakeholders across divisional finance, shared service centers, and centers of excellence in a matrixed organization.
• Pioneer strategic thinking by demonstrating experience proposing and implementing innovative ideas with a focus on continuous improvement and process optimization.
• Lead with organized communication to manage complex information while having strong attention to detail; skilled in clearly communicating accounting guidance and policy, identifying solutions to address internal control risks, and presenting process improvement proposals to business partners.
  
  

What You Need

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, or other relevant business degree required
• 4+ years of professional experience in Accounting/Finance roles
• Strong Microsoft Excel and Word skills
• Familiarity with HFM, Blackline, SAP, and financial statement close processes
  
  

Preferred:

• CPA
  
  

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker 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 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.