Our team is growing, and we are seeking someone with audit expertise and risk acumen. Are you interested in driving improvements in risk management, controls, and governance processes? As a member in our Assurance and Risk Advisory (ARA) function, you’ll partner with leaders across the organization to strengthen internal controls, drive process improvements, and deliver insights that support strategic decision-making. You will have the chance to work with a dynamic and global team that supports the organization’s strategy through customer focus and innovation. 

The Senior Risk Analyst will support the Senior Manager in executing SOX-related projects and delivering on continuous improvement initiatives within ARA.  This role requires knowledge of technical accounting, relevant standards, and business processes impactful to financial reporting in to effectively support internal audit activities.

Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Execute internal audit SOX projects from planning through reporting, with a focus on evaluating and improving internal controls over financial reporting. 
• Conduct end-to-end process walkthroughs to obtain a process-level understanding, identify process risk points and controls in place to mitigate the risks, and evaluate control design.
• Prepare testing workpapers to verify achievement of audit objectives and quality in audit deliverables.  Interpret and implement relevant concepts to audit methodology and ARA practices to ensure audit and advisory excellence.
• Critically evaluate internal control deficiencies to understand root cause, exposure, and impacts, and collaborate with control owners to assemble detailed management action plans.
• Prepare comprehensive and clear SOX status reports that succinctly summarize scope, testing status, milestones and delivery, issues, and agreed action plans to be shared within the ARA team as well as to business stakeholders on a regular cadence.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, high performance and continuous learning.
• Develop a deep understanding of Stryker, external competitors, and demonstrate thought leadership in leading business practices and controls to be a trusted advisor to the business.
• Support in the delivery of non-SOX audit projects as needed.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required.
• CPA is required.
• Experience working with audit software (e.g. AuditBoard) is preferred.
• 2+ years of relevant experience, ideally in public accounting supporting assurance services for global public corporations or a finance/audit role at a large public company.
• Big 4 experience preferred.
• Foundational understanding of US GAAP, Sarbanes-Oxley, COSO framework, and leading business practices.
• Working knowledge of technical accounting and financial statement audit concepts, with the ability to apply this knowledge effectively in practical situations.
• Candidates must be located in EST or CST time zones.

• $69,500 - $133,100 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

This was posted on 3/25/2026.

Posted Date: 03/25/2026
This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days.