**Why finance at Stryker?**:***:Are you looking for a profitable and growing company with a great culture and reputation? Stryker is the only company with 40 consecutive years of sales growth and was recently named one of the Best Workplace in the WORLD by Fortune! Here, you will have many opportunities to learn and grow as we offer development opportunities unique for each employees needs including training, certifications, mentorship, leadership programs, tuition reimbursement, one-on-one coaching and more!**Who we want****Insightful advisors.** Managers who lead strategy development and provide guidance to teams**Dedicated achievers.** People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure business goals and objective are met.**Collaborators. **Relationship-savvy people who intentionally make and strengthen connections with both internal partners and external customers.**What you will do**In this role, you will work closely with business and finance leaders to establish, direct, coordinate, and administer a plan for managing all inventory related topics for Global Inventory COE US initially related to Ortho and any other inventory which might become part of the Global Inventory Team or this team. You will provide support to the Sr Manager(s) Inventory Ortho & Spine and Sr Manager Costing/GRNI for guiding the team and all related stakeholders commercially and GQO (if needed). You will support in technical accounting, forecasting, internal control, transitions and month end activities. You will manage direct report(s) as well.Responsibilities may include:- Month end:- Manage monthly closing with Divisional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain and Global Finance Service Centers (GFS) teams- Responsible for ensuring that inventory (and reserves) is correctly valued and controlled and all relevant Corporate Policies are applied- Analyze and communicate key business drivers to enable functional business leaders to effectively manage their P&L and provide recommendations- Analyze Inventory and Inventory adjustments; provide information to facilitate business reviews and set requirements from a finance perspective in a timely manner.- Delivery of monthly business results, including in near future, performance to budget and forecast. Interprets and communicates results to senior leadership and proactively recommends opportunities to improve business results- Prepare the more complex month end journal entries, review and approve those journals completed by the team members.- Communication/relationships:- Responsible for effectively communicating relevant information to all stakeholders- Proactively communicate changes in business trends, local business decisions or other issues that may have a financial impact.- Analyze and communicate key business drivers to enable function business leaders to effectively manage their P&L and provide recommendations- Planning:- Support the planning process with the divisions on preparing forecast models, consolidations, and coordination of projection calls- Supporting the Sr. manager for the planning process including support divisions in their forecast models, consolidations and coordination of projection calls in close collaboration with Divisions/Supply Chain/Suppliers/etc.- Analyze Inventory and Inventory adjustments; provide information to facilitate business reviews and set requirements from a finance perspective in a timely manner.- Management skills:- Responsible for Costa Rica team by setting direction, developing talent and empower to assist in their development inventory content wise- Build, manage and develop team of accounting professionals, including setting of annual objectives and completion of the team annual reviews.- Compliance:- Finance Manager will be support for Internal and External Audits (mainly SOX related)- Ensure all defined controls Inventory related are updated, performed, reviewed, documented and executed as accurately and timely as possible in close collaboration with the Internal Control team members within Global Inventory COE, our Inventory compliance team and the Internal Control Department- Support Internal Control Manager and lead analyst to ensure that all defined controls, inventory related, are updated, performed, reviewed, documented and executed as accurate and timely as possible- Ensure all Inventory reports generated by ERP systems are accurate, complete, and reconcile to the General Ledger.- Other:- Initiate and drive process improvements- Participate in inventory project related items and actively deliver input, such as, further integrations, transitions, and system implementations- Responsible for all ad-hoc questions related to inventory (Spine and possible other areas)**What you need**- Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent required (Master's preferred)- Fluent in English and Spanish- CPA qualification preferred- Excellent working kn
