Associate Manager, Global Inventory COE, Accounting

Are you ready to take the next step in your finance career and lead a team driving inventory accounting excellence?

As Associate Manager within our Global Inventory Center of Excellence (COE), you’ll oversee a sub-team responsible for key technical accounting processes, collaborate across functions, and contribute to strategic initiatives that shape our global inventory operations.

This is a high-impact role offering growth, visibility, and the chance to make a difference in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment.

**What You Will Do**

+ Lead technical accounting for inventory topics including Gross Inventory, GRNI/GIT, E&O reserves, Costing/Revaluation, UPI, PPV, and Loaner Instrumentation
+ Manage month-end close activities, ensuring timely and accurate journal entries, reconciliations, and compliance with corporate policies
+ Review and approve complex journal entries and support compliance activities including SOX-related controls
+ Collaborate with Divisional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Global Finance Service Centers to align accounting processes and resolve issues
+ Build, manage, and develop a small team of accounting professionals, setting objectives and conducting performance reviews
+ Support internal and external audits by ensuring documentation and controls are accurate, timely, and complete
+ Drive process improvements and contribute to system implementations, transitions, and integrations
+ Provide input for forecasting and planning processes within the Inventory COE

**What You Will Need**

Required

+ Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent
+ Minimum 6 years of experience in Audit, Accounting, or Finance
+ Fluent in English
+ Experience with inventory accounting topics
+ Familiarity with SOX compliance requirements

Preferred

+ Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance
+ Experience researching and applying GAAP
+ Experience with SAP or Oracle ERP systems
+ Team management experience
+ Additional language skills (Polish or Dutch)

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.