Who we Want:

• Analytical problem solvers. People who go beyond just fixing to identify root causes, evaluate optimal solutions, and recommend comprehensive upgrades to prevent future issues.

• Goal-oriented: Keeping the customer and requirements squarely in focus, people who deliver safe and robust solutions.  

• Collaborative partners. People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

• Dedicated achievers. People who thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and meets regulations and expectations.

• Detail-oriented process improvers. Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

What you will do:  

​​​The Senior Accountant will be primarily responsible for executing Account reconciliations related to assigned entities in Stryker’s newly created Costa Rica Shared Service Center and additional support required to meet Month End Close activities or any ad-hoc request. 

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​Essential duties & responsibilities:

• Perform Account Reconciliation for assigned entities  

• Investigate and resolve unsupported balances

• Provide support to businesses on requests related to journal/recon backups 

• Escalate any unusual activity or aged items to management which enables a proactive response to potential risks and related losses 

• Financial Statement analysis  

• Drive month-end closing process and any request as deem necessary  

• Control and validate WBS activity. 

• Comply with Corporate accounting policies, US and local GAAP 

• Performs other related work as assigned by management 

What you need:

Education & special trainings: 

• ​​Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Business, or a related field 

• ​MS Office Suite 

• ​Fluent spoken and written English and Spanish. Portuguese is a plus 

• ​SAP, AS400 or Oracle systems knowledge is a big plus​ 

Qualifications & experience: 

• 3-5 years (minimum) of relevant working experience in a finance function in matrixed international company (preferably American or Multinational company) with complex reporting practices and with exposure to various reporting systems 

• ​Experience of working in a shared service center across a global /large organization will be an added advantage​ 

Physical & mental requirements:  

• ​​Ability to work well with cross-functional teams and multi-task  

• ​Versatile, motivated, creative, intellectually curious, a good communicator and collaborator 

• ​Demonstrated ability to perform consistently under varying business pressure as well as ability to adapt to a quickly changing environment  

• ​Computer or technical knowledge  

• ​Effective problem-solving skills​ 

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