Senior Inventory Accountant

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At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

 

Global Business Services

The Global Business Services (GBS) team is a function established within Boston Scientific, designed to improve the efficiency of key business processes by taking opportunities to drive standardization, leverage resources, knowledge and skills and monitor the effectiveness of service delivery against benchmarks and service level agreements. Our team has a great diversity of personalities with an international background and functional expertise.

 

The vision of GBS at Boston Scientific is to be recognized as a world-class Center of Operational Excellence driven by the desire for excellence in its people, processes, execution and business partnerships. GBS is designed to deliver significant business benefits to employees and customers of Boston Scientific and is championing the development of a continues improvement culture. We are developing a performance-based culture supported by tools, training and well-defined accountability, where people can build their career or prepare for a role in the wider business or elsewhere within GBS.

 

Recently the GBS streamlining has undergone a revised approach to step away from regional thinking and behavior and is transforming existing and new service lines into a global view of standardization.

 

About the role:

The candidate is a subject matter expert for inventory accounting and analyses. The job is a mix of approximately 35% accounting and 65% analyses for the designated manufacturing sites, Tier 1 and Tier 2 EMEA warehouses and consignment inventory. You are the point of contact for all things inventory, and you drive behavior and influence stakeholders across the regions. You operate within a multi-cultural, diverse and inclusive driven team.

 

It is expected that you pro-actively identify ways to improve and streamline processes and are leading the implementation of process improvements and standardizations while cooperating with other GBS business process leads. The candidate performs a variety of complex duties related to balance sheet and profit and loss chart of accounts.

 

Your responsibilities include:

• Be a solid business partner and subject matter expert, with other finance teams, supply chain management, divisional central accounting, FP&A, business controls and multi region GBS teams.
• Drive and strive for global standardization, via LEAN methodologies and work with different automatization groups to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Own and safeguard key SOX controls related to inventory and cost of goods sold accounting. This includes, amongst but not limited to, full inventory reserves and inventory verification processes.
• Execute month/quarter/year-end close processes to ensure timely and accurate close and financial reports preparation.
• Determined focus on analyzing (balance sheet and profit and loss) accounts, preparing reports, reconciling accounts, and performing the monthly financial close and consolidation, external and internal reporting, monitoring SOX/internal control requirements, support audits, and maintaining & performing software interfaces with SAP.
• Drive compliance in all finance-related matters and ensure compliance with Corporate and local policies, statutory requirements and GAAP principles.
• Support internal and external audits and audit-related accounting matters (SOX, Global Internal Audit).
• Participate in implementing quality requirements in all aspects of the financial process.
• Ensure all activities comply with legal demands, ethical standards and the Internal Quality Management System

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Financial accounting or Business Economics
• Relevant experience in accounting and analyses
• SAP experience, additional automation capabilities are a plus