Senior Finance Analyst

Stryker

Stryker is one of the world’s leading medical technology companies and together with our customers, is driven to make healthcare better. 

Stryker offers innovative products and services in Medical and Surgical, Neurotechnology, Orthopedics, and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 100 million patients annually.

The Role

A Senior Finance Analyst position is available in our growing Finance team. This role sits within the Finance Commercial Business partnering team reporting to the Senior Commercial Manager/Commercial Manager and is responsible for helping provide business partnering, performance management, planning, financial governance and decision support to the Sales Director and their teams. The role will also support the broader finance teams as well as key business wide, strategic and finance projects.

Who We Want

• Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and will stop at nothing to ensure a project is complete and exceeds expectations?

• Do You enjoy analysing data or trends for the purposes of planning, forecasting, advising, budgeting, reporting, or sales opportunities?

• Do you love strategizing, collaborating and building relationships?

• Then this could be the Senior Finance Analyst role for you!

Key Responsibility Areas:

Business Partnering:

• Builds and maintains a relationship with key stakeholders.

• Understands stakeholder needs and expectations and how and when to best engage them.

• Communicates and seeks input proactively upfront before decisions and provides advice.

• Leverages business understanding to target questions to provide stakeholders alternative perspectives and to build credibility and trust.

• Speaks up and reports to direct management when information / data seems incorrect.

Business Planning, budgeting, and Forecasting:

• Supports the weekly Agenda process including stakeholder alignment.

• Supports the Quarterly Forecasting Process.

• Supports the Annual Budget Process.

• Supports the annual Quota setting, awards, and quota P&L process.

• Partners with the Marketing team to supports the Franchise specific input into LRFP.

Performance Management:

• P&L control, analysis and insight for the Franchise you support

• Responsible for Month-end close for the Franchise you support

• Provides variance analysis and commentary to explain monthly results

• Provides key monthly & ad hoc performance reporting for your Franchise. E.g. KPI Review Deck

• Communicates and seeks input proactively upfront before decisions and provides advice on R&Os.

Decision Support:

• Assists in providing modelling and inputs necessary to support stakeholders in making business decisions.

• Support across business as usual, customer tenders, ROI, capital expenditure, contracts, and other investment appraisals

Projects:

• As identified in line with organisational goals.

• Support Franchise specific projects and initiatives.

• Support Business wide strategic initiatives.

• Support finance Strategic projects and initiatives e.g. Continuous improvement

Team:

• Team coverage and support

• Support the education and training across the finance team

• Support the Development of financial acumen across the Franchise you support

Critical Requirements (e.g. skills, experience, qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in finance related topic

• Strong relationship building abilities.

• Takes initiative and actively problem solves.

• Good time, task and organisational management skills.

• Able to communicate and manage stakeholder expectations.

• CA/CPA qualified or working towards it is strongly preferred

• Intermediate to advanced excel knowledge with the ability to leverage advanced formulas, Macros, tools and shortcuts to efficiently and effectively analyse and provide insights on data strongly preferred

• Able to create advanced Power BI reports as well as provide coaching and support to other team members preferred.

What You Can Expect from Stryker

• A Manager who cares about you, your strengths and will help you to become the best possible version of yourself.

• An environment that focuses on who you are as a person and then who you are as an employee.

• To learn daily and be challenged daily.

• Flexibility, support and fun.

• A team of engaged, positive, energetic and passionate people.

What's In It For You

• Join one of Australia’s Best Places to Work in 2020!

• Multiple financial benefits including health care, financial wellbeing, insurance benefits.

• Ongoing training and opportunities for career progression

• Paid Parental leave scheme

• Volunteer Days

• Onsite gym!

• Being part of one of the world’s largest and most recognizable brands.

• Excellent team culture – we have fun whilst we work!

• A Leader who will support & guide you throughout your career

• Access to our career and self-development program from day one

To join us, click apply now!