• Indirect Tax Analyst (hybrid)

    Stryker (Portage, MI)


    In this role, you will assist the Unclaimed Property team and Finance Functions in Costa Rica by tracking returned payments, sending refunds, organizing and executing due diligence campaigns to remediate owed balances and researching payable and receivable records to help with continued compliance and audit readiness. Analysis and trend identification will be collected from data captured in these activities. Communication with other finance function teams and customers and vendors will be essential.

     

    This role requires in office days as the work is fed by mail and payments received at the building.

     

    This hybrid role is based out of our Portage, MI office. You will need to be in the office 2 days a week, but you will have the flexibility to work from home on the other days.

    Who We Want

    **Detail-oriented process improver** Critical thinkers who naturally see opportunities to develop and optimize work processes – finding ways to simplify, standardize and automate.

    **Effective communicator** Can analyze and synthesize data/information for insights and communicate them in a consumable way for decision-making.

    **Collaborative partner** Ability to build strong relationships, has influence and will partner with teams in multiple functional areas to improve capabilities.

    **Meticulous documenters** Detail-oriented people who enjoy maintaining meticulous documentation of reports, metrics, proposals, and presentations.

    What you will do

    + Remediate and track returned payments with finance function teams. Payments that are returned to Stryker due to address issues need to be submitted to the appropriate payables and master data team for review and correction. Enter tickets, follow up on corrections, and mail payments.

    + Process refunds initiated by collections and cash application team. Mail payments to specified customers with backup provided. Work with FedEx to expedite payment delivery.

    + Coordinates due diligence mailing campaigns and communicates results. Use mail merge flow from defined population of customers and vendors to create due diligence mailings. Monitor results received by mail and form answers. Analyze and relay results to appropriate payables and receivables teams.

    + Research finance transactions for accuracy and escalates any findings. with account Using a variety of ERPs and bank research tools, analyze and confirm accuracy of customer and vendor account balances. Work with appropriate teams to remediate erroneous findings.

    + Track various projects related to receivables, payables, master data, leverage data visualization tools to provide insights to manager for finance leaders.

    + Collaborate with internal partners and external customer or vendors to resolve complex transactions that cross department, business unit or corporate boundaries.

     

    What You Need

    Required:

    + Bachelor’s degree

    + ERP system experience (Oracle, JDE and SAP, AS 400 and others)

     

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    Preferred:

    + Experience of working in a shared service center across a global/large organization will be an added advantage

    + Experience with Power BI

     

    Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.

     

    Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.