Manager, Global Inventory COE, Accounting

Are you ready to lead inventory accounting operations that directly impact financial accuracy and compliance across a dynamic organization?

As Manager within our Global Inventory Center of Excellence (COE), you’ll guide a sub-team responsible for critical technical accounting topics, drive process improvements, and collaborate across functions to ensure excellence in inventory reporting.

This is your opportunity to shape global standards and grow a high-performing team 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
+ Collaborate with Divisional Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, and Global Finance Service Centers to align accounting processes and resolve issues
+ Review and approve complex journal entries and support compliance activities including SOX-related controls
+ Build, manage, and develop a 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 strategic input for forecasting and planning processes within the Inventory COE

**What You Will Need**

Required

+ Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent
+ Minimum 8 years of experience in Audit, Accounting, or Finance
+ Minimum 3 years of experience in a people management role
+ Fluent in English
+ Strong knowledge of US GAAP
+ Experience with inventory accounting topics
+ Familiarity with SOX compliance requirements

Preferred

+ Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance
+ CPA certification
+ Experience with Oracle ERP systems
+ SAP 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.