Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, data and insights to drive continuous improvement in finance functions.

Organized communicators. Highly organized with a strong attention to detail and ability to clearly communicate detail with business partners

What You Will Do

As a Finance Manager is a global finance role, which reaches across the franchise and is responsible for influencing critical financial outcomes through coordinating all reporting activities (i.e., planning, budgeting and actual results) for the franchise and building ad hoc financial modelling tools. This role is responsible for partnering with the DML (Division Manufacturing Leader) / DOL (Division Operations Leader) the site finance leads to help achieve the best financial practices and outcomes. This role will also deputize for the DFL (Division Finance Leader) on occasion. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the integrity of financial control in each of the sites supported and in building the technical strength of the broader site finance teams through support and training.

• Key member of manufacturing finance leadership team that formulates & executes strategic objectives to help drive strategy & future direction

• Supports the strategic planning process that sets financial direction for relevant manufacturing sites

• Build organizational capability to develop & constructively challenge business plans & financial models to identify key value drivers

• Develop relationships & influence key senior leaders across Stryker

• Own innovative financial processes for monitoring the objectives and specific achievements related to each new strategic & cost transformation initiatives

• Support business due diligence & integration of acquisition to realize our strategy.

Business Controller

• Manages the annual budgeting, annual cost roll, and quarterly forecasting processes

• Leads the consolidation of monthly business results, including performance to budget and forecast

• Interprets and communicates results to senior leadership, and recommends opportunities to improve business results

• Responsible for the recruiting, engagement, mentoring, objective-setting, and performance management of direct reports

• Coordinates consolidated accounting and FP&A tactical activities across multiple sites and time zones including Europe and the continental US

• Evaluates and recommends training and development opportunities for the Finance Team

• Develops and maintains effective business relationships with financial leaders and other constituents in GQO, Corporate office and commercial enterprises.

• Develops, reports and reviews FX trends, NON-GAAP project compliance and capital investment metrics, amongst other KPIs

• Maintains the integrity of supporting financial systems, and sponsors the continuous improvement, development and business alignment of these systems

• Ensures policy and procedural compliance regarding accounting practices by developing, interpreting and guiding implementation

• Oversees compliance with Tax, Internal Audit, Treasury, Corporate Accounting and other matters. Ensures alignment related to Capital Committee, Audit Committee and other governance requirements

• Ensures financial accounting standardization (e.g., consistent interpretation of fixed and variable headcount classification; F&V manufacturing expense alignments; etc)

• Sponsors analytics, appraising and recommending opportunities intended to improve operating results

• Identifies process improvement opportunities including, but not limited to, CER processes, standard costing practices, financial accounting standardization, allocation methodologies, cost transformation reporting, etc.

• Develops and maintains the financial business calendar that complies with all GQO Finance and Corporate FP&A deadlines

• Note: Several of the responsibilities reflected above will necessitate a clearly articulated and collaborative relationship between the Controller, the Site finance leaders & Senior Finance Director roles.)

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintains effective business relationships with the leadership team – particularly the DML/ DOL, the Supply Planning Lead and the Site Leaders (Operations & Finance) to influence key financial decisions and outcomes

• Develop relationships & influence key peers and senior leaders across the GQO finance franchise group and wider Stryker network. Be a critical link with the GQO Controlling Team – influencing decisions re: best practice / approach to reporting and consolidation activities.

• Develops and maintains effective business relationships with financial team members and leaders across all manufacturing sites in the franchise, providing guidance and advice on CER processes, standard costing practices, financial accounting standardization, allocation methodologies, cost transformation reporting, etc

• As a partner to key functional groups; provide financial advice and support to the function leaders and team members across the franchise. This includes, but not limited to, critical support for the inventory task force team as we drive towards significant inventory reduction across GQO.

• Compile and develop analytics, appraising and recommending opportunities intended to improve operating results

• Consolidate and report on monthly business results, projection and budget data. Prepare communication of results to senior leadership, identifying opportunities to improve business results

• Manage the annual Cost Roll (COGS to COGS) process

• Rationalize all significant capital investments in the business models.

• Own the NON-GAAP project compliance and reporting to the GQO VP of Finance on a quarterly basis.

• Maintain compliance with Tax, Internal Audit, Treasury, Corporate Accounting and other matters through the ownership of all quarterly reporting schedules for the franchises – being the critical partner with the Shared Service Centres to ensure accuracy and timeliness of data

• Ensure financial accounting standardization (e.g., consistent interpretation of fixed and variable headcount classification; F&V manufacturing expense alignments; etc).

• Deputizes for the DFL, as required

• All other duties as assigned.

What You Need

• Bachelor's Degree required

• 8+ Years post qualification experience working in a multi-national, preferably within an FDA regulated industry.

• Preferred progressive Finance / Accounting experience with expertise in US GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley Act, and Financial Modeling

• Hold a recognized professional accounting qualification preferred

• Manufacturing Finance experience strongly preferred