Lead Analyst - Financial Systems

About the role

At Stryker, financial systems power the insights and decisions that help us advance healthcare around the world. As a Lead Analyst, Financial Systems, you will play a critical role in ensuring our planning, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting platforms operate reliably and efficiently. This is an opportunity to lead key financial system initiatives, drive automation and continuous improvement, and partner with Finance and IT teams to deliver solutions that support business performance. This role is hybrid, with team members expected to work on-site each Wednesday at their designated Stryker office location.

What You Will Do

• Lead system readiness activities for month-end close, forecasting, and planning cycles, including scenario setup, exchange rates, calendars, and process validation.
• Manage financial data integrations, data loads, reconciliations, and validation activities across planning and reporting systems.
• Administer financial systems, including user access, security roles, hierarchies, metadata, and governance controls.
• Support planning applications through requirements gathering, testing, deployment validation, maintenance, and production support.
• Partner with Finance and Information Technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.
• Develop and maintain system documentation, operating procedures, governance standards, and finance master data controls.
• Lead system enhancements, upgrades, automation initiatives, and process improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen controls, and improve the user experience.
• Provide reporting support, end-user training, and subject matter expertise for financial planning and reporting systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in finance, accounting, financial systems, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting financial planning, consolidation, or reporting platforms such as SAP BPC, HFM, Anaplan, or similar systems.
• Experience managing financial data loads, reconciliations, and system administration activities.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Power BI or other dashboard and reporting tools.
• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Experience supporting enterprise financial planning, forecasting, or consolidation processes.
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver system enhancements and process improvements.