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Senior Accountant
Stryker · San Antonio de Belen, Costa Rica
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Work Flexibility: Hybrid Join Stryker’s Finance team in a senior accounting role supporting accurate financial reporting and general accounting processes within an international environment. You will provide technical accounting expertise, review key accounting activities, support month-end close, coordinate deliverables, and help maintain compliance with accounting policies and internal controls. What you will do
- Serve as a subject matter expert for general accounting processes, providing guidance to team members and supporting accounting-related queries.
- Perform and review complex accounting activities, including month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, fixed assets, cash accounting, financial reporting, and financial statement analysis.
- Review and approve journal entries and account reconciliations for assigned entities, ensuring appropriate supporting documentation and accuracy.
- Coordinate month-end closing activities and other key accounting deliverables in collaboration with the Supervisor or Lead Analyst.
- Execute assigned Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) controls and support internal and external audit requirements while ensuring compliance with accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Partner with local accounting teams and markets to investigate and resolve discrepancies, accounting issues, and queries, escalating matters when required.
- Support the migration of accounting processes across countries in scope and create and maintain related process and procedure documentation.
- Train new and existing team members and identify opportunities to improve accounting processes and operational efficiency. What you will need Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in finance or general accounting.
- Experience with journal entry processing, account reconciliations, financial reporting and analysis, fixed assets, or related general accounting activities.
- English proficiency at B2 level.
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel proficiency, including PivotTables, VLOOKUP, macros, charts, and formulas. Preferred
- Experience working in a shared services environment or within a large, global, or multinational organization.
- Working knowledge of
US Gaap
and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements.
- Experience using SAP. Travel Percentage: None