Associate Manager, Accounting (fixed-term)
Stryker · Warsaw · PLN 191,100–PLN 318,500 (stated in the posting)
Work Flexibility: HybridThis is a fixed-term contract (maternity cover) until April 2028.
Join our finance team and play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and accounting excellence across multiple European entities. This is an exciting opportunity to lead critical record-to-report activities, manage a team of accounting professionals, and drive process improvements that support business performance and operational efficiency.
What You Will Do
- Lead general accounting activities, including preparing, maintaining, and reconciling general ledger accounts to ensure accurate financial records.
- Own accounting and financial reporting activities for assigned legal entities, ensuring timely and accurate deliverables.
- Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes while meeting all reporting deadlines.
- Review financial data, identify issues impacting accuracy and compliance, and implement corrective actions.
- Oversee statutory and corporate reporting requirements to ensure alignment with applicable accounting standards and company policies.
- Manage and develop a team of seven accounting professionals through coaching, workload coordination, and performance support.
- Maintain the risk and control framework for assigned processes, ensuring documentation, control execution, and audit readiness.
- Drive process improvement, standardization, audit remediation, and compliance initiatives to enhance efficiency and control effectiveness.
What You Will Need
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in statutory accounting, general ledger accounting, financial reporting, or audit.
- Minimum 1 year of experience managing or coordinating accounting professionals.
- Fluent English proficiency.
- Knowledge of internal controls and compliance frameworks, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Preferred
- Professional accounting certification such as ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of US GAAP.
- Experience using SAP and/or Hyperion.
- Experience within a multinational company, shared services environment, or public accounting firm.
Poland Pay Ranges:
- Poland: zł191.100 - zł318.500 PLN Annual
At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.
If you’d like to learn more about the salary or the benefits associated with this role, your recruiter will be happy to walk you through the details as you progress through the hiring process.
Travel Percentage: None