Senior Manager, Technical Accounting and Policy; hybrid

Overview

The Senior Manager, Technical Accounting and Policy leads the preparation and implementation of corporate finance policies applicable to Stryker's global finance organization, ensures adherence to such policies, researches, documents, and resolves technical accounting matters in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and evaluates the impact of new accounting pronouncements on Stryker's financial statements and accounting policies and procedures. This role also supports quarterly SEC filing requirements through the preparation and review of financial statement schedules and footnotes.

• Business partners who build connections with local finance teams and coordinate cross-functional collaboration.
• Enthusiastic players who are excited by the opportunity to be part of ideating, developing, and promoting policies that ensure the integrity of our financial statements.
• Relationship builders who create genuine, trusting relationships with internal team members, business partners, and leadership.
• Strong communicators who clearly and proactively reach out to others to collaborate on effective solutions.

• Partner cross-functionally with division finance, financial compliance, local technical accounting, internal reporting, and operational leaders to provide and obtain feedback on policy updates and provide interpretative accounting guidance.
• Own and develop a corporate finance policy project plan for the year, collaborating with constituents to identify accounting and finance operation areas that require new policy guidance or updates to existing policy guidance.
• Along with the Director, Technical Accounting, serve as a subject matter expert on a variety of accounting topics, including but not limited to revenue recognition, leases, goodwill and intangibles, business combinations, and financial statement presentation.
• Regularly conduct research on highly technical accounting topics as needed.
• Manage and emcee all financial compliance committee meetings, including managing follow-up and to-do items.
• Partner with finance training and development to prepare occasional informational materials on finance policy and training materials on accounting topics for dissemination to and education of the global finance organization.
• Coordinate with division finance and management specialists related to goodwill impairment analyses, including review of methodologies and assumptions that serve as inputs to the valuation reports.
• Assist with the quarterly financial statement close process, preparing certain footnote disclosures and tables for the consolidated financial statements.

Required:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting or Finance, 10+ years of experience required performing public accounting or accounting for a publicly-traded company.

Preferred:

• Experience in GAAP, researching and applying GAAP
• Experience with Hyperion Financial Management

You will need to live within a reasonable commuting distance to our Flower Mound, TX location. Currently, we are in office Tuesday and Wednesday each week and work remotely on other days of the week. Travel Percentage: 10%

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.