Senior Accountant

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

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.       

Senior Accountant 
 

At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination, and a deep caring for human life, we are solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, we are one global team committed to making a difference in people’s lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purpose—improving lives through your life’s work.

About the Role:
 

Our division, Boston Scientific Neuromodulation (NM) business is a leading developer of emerging microelectronic technologies that modulate nerve activity to treat disabling disorders, including chronic pain. The Finance Department is seeking a Senior Accountant to perform a variety of complex duties in general accounting such as analyzing accounts, preparing reports, reconciling accounts, and performing the monthly financial close and consolidation, external and internal reporting, monitoring SOX/internal control requirements, support audits, maintaining & performing revenue recognition analysis, and supporting and preparing reports related to federal grants.  Measures performance against key performance indicators and continually identifies ways to improve and streamline processes.

Your Responsibilities Include:
 

• Execute month/quarter/year-end Close processes to ensure timely and accurate Close and financial reports preparation.
• Oversee financial and accounting process and work closely together with finance teams and GBS teams, with a high focus on controlling balance sheet reconciliations and journal entries.
• Optimize current financial accounting process in coordination with stakeholders.
• Support the Fixed Asset activities, such as CERA, Fixed asset tagging and cycle counts.
• Execute and analyze monthly and quarterly accruals, such as AP invoices, contracts, milestones, etc.
• Manage quarterly Deferred Revenue analysis, corporate reporting and tracking of revenue, and Rebates.
• Coordinate intercompany accounting and reconciliations.
• Comply with KPI’s and OPIs as defined by NM Divisional Finance.
• 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, and E&Y).
• Apply LEAN methodologies to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of financial processes.
• Participate in implementing quality requirements in all aspects of the financial process.
• Identify and implement process improvement and standardization.
• Ensure all activities comply with legal demands, ethical standards, and the Internal Quality Management System
• Preferably have some experience in M&A and integration activities.

What We're Looking For:
 

Required Qualifications:
 

• Bachelor’s Degree, Accounting, Finance
• 5+ years’ related accounting experience
• SAP experience. Hyperion, NetSuite, Blackline, and Cadency experience are a plus.
• Possess Advanced MS Excel skills including excel modeling capabilities and strong proficiency in MS Word and PowerPoint.
• Fluency in spoken and written English. 
• Proactive, enjoys working in a challenging environment, results-oriented and a team player.