**What You Will Do:** + Build strong partnerships with finance leadership and stakeholders, aligning on roles, metrics, and service delivery. + Manage and develop a high-performing team, setting goals, monitoring progress, and supporting career growth. + Lead continuous improvement initiatives to optimize workflows, strengthen compliance, and support business objectives. + Lead accounting and reporting processes to ensure accurate, timely monthly, quarterly, and year-end close. + Oversee balance sheet reviews, ensuring accuracy, identifying risks, and driving corrective actions. + Implement and maintain effective internal controls to comply with SOX, anti-bribery/anti-corruption laws, and Stryker policies. + Drive standardization and simplification of accounting processes across entities and ERP systems. + Collaborate with internal and external auditors to ensure efficient, effective audits. **What you need:** + Minimum experience of 5 years in accounting manager position or equivalent, SSC or in a multinational company + Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field + Fluent in English + Familiar with USGAAP, Sarbanes Oxley Act + Proven leadership with the ability to lead large teams + Able to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization + Able to identify and implement innovative solutions to meet business requirements + Professional certification in accounting or progress toward completion 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 150 million patients annually. Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.