Financial Solutions Associate

at  Stryker

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JOB DESCRIPTION

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We are proud to offer you our total rewards package which includes bonuses, healthcare, insurance benefits, retirement programs, wellness programs, as well as service and performance awards – not to mention various social and recreational activities, all of which are location specific.
The Financial Solutions Associate (FSA) will provide daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly operational and continuous process improvement support to the Financial Solutions Team, in partnership with Business Controls Team, and relevant Stryker product/clinical sales team members across Australia and New Zealand.

Key areas of accountability:

• Proactively engage the Financial Solutions Team to understand key operational tasks required to support internal and external customers, ie reporting, dashboards, etc on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Implement sustainable and repeatable systems and processes that support increased compliance and governance environment in conjunction with Business Controls, Finance team and compliance.
• Ensure current and future requirements met in regard to improved governance of FS program, ie TVA remediation process, Contract Waiver process, End of term RV letters, establish agreed end of term process
• Ongoing contract lifecycle management across the Financial Solutions portfolio.
• Implement any future audit findings and improvements in collaboration with finance, Business controls, compliance, sales leadership
• Contract data accuracy and integrity on-going
• Ensure all data input throughout life cycle of financial solutions programs is of the highest quality with nil errors reported resulting in nil financial loss or reputation/brand damage
• Identify and drive process, system and program automation and improvement, i.e automated reports, TVA approvals on Salesforce as an example
• Build and maintain key internal business partner and designated external customer relationships

Critical Requirements (eg: skills, experience, qualifications):

• 1-3 years business experience with exposure to data analysis, process improvement and governance
• Deadline driven, with excellent planning, organizational and time-management skills
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, (i.e. Excel, Word and PowerPoint), Power BI
• Proven Commercial and analytical skills
• Ability to influence, work with and negotiate at multiple levels and across multiple functions within organization
• Process orientation and superior problem solving and decision making skills
• Demonstrated written and oral communications skills
• Strong results orientation
• Adherence to compliance and quality programs
• Contractual and commercial understanding of contracts terms and conditions

Desirable Requirements (eg: skills, experience, qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree (or Tertiary Qualification) in Finance, Commerce, Accounting or Business
• Experience in financial services, accounting or banking with focus on equipment finance and/or leasing
• Familiarity and confidence with A/NZ Public Health terms and conditions
• Exposure to process improvement / continuous improvement programs

Other requirements (eg: travel, on-call responsibilities):

• Occasional interstate travel (and possibly NZ) may be required to attend key meetings

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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

Key areas of accountability:

• Proactively engage the Financial Solutions Team to understand key operational tasks required to support internal and external customers, ie reporting, dashboards, etc on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
• Implement sustainable and repeatable systems and processes that support increased compliance and governance environment in conjunction with Business Controls, Finance team and compliance.
• Ensure current and future requirements met in regard to improved governance of FS program, ie TVA remediation process, Contract Waiver process, End of term RV letters, establish agreed end of term process
• Ongoing contract lifecycle management across the Financial Solutions portfolio.
• Implement any future audit findings and improvements in collaboration with finance, Business controls, compliance, sales leadership
• Contract data accuracy and integrity on-going
• Ensure all data input throughout life cycle of financial solutions programs is of the highest quality with nil errors reported resulting in nil financial loss or reputation/brand damage
• Identify and drive process, system and program automation and improvement, i.e automated reports, TVA approvals on Salesforce as an example
• Build and maintain key internal business partner and designated external customer relationship

Other requirements (eg: travel, on-call responsibilities):

• Occasional interstate travel (and possibly NZ) may be required to attend key meeting