Manager, Compliance and EOT

Stryker; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology company is seeking a Manager within Flex Financial Europe to lead a team of Portfolio Analysts. This role involves ensuring compliance with contracts, improving processes, and managing a team for effective execution across regions. Candidates should possess a degree in Finance or related field and substantial experience in finance or operations. Strong communication and analytical skills are essential. The role allows for hybrid work flexibility.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of finance, accounting, or operations experience.
• Fluency in English required.
• Proven ability to lead teams and manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of Portfolio Analysts, providing coaching and mentoring.
• Oversee compliance operations and ensures reporting accuracy.
• Design and implement new processes in collaboration with various teams.

Skills

Communication skills

Relationship-building

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field

Tools

Reporting systems

Job description

Overview

Work Flexibility: Hybrid

As a Manager within Flex Financial Europe, you will lead and develop a team of Portfolio Analysts responsible for contract compliance, control execution, and end-to-end portfolio processes. You will provide day-to-day leadership, partner with cross-functional teams, and serve as the first escalation point to ensure accurate reporting and sustainable processes across multiple regions. You will also help shape and drive the design and implementation of new processes, ensuring consistency and scalability across countries.

This role is critical to ensuring compliance with customer contract obligations, mitigating P&L risk, strengthening internal controls, and enabling Flex Europe to scale effectively. You will collaborate closely with sales, divisional finance, local country finance, T&P, and the Poland Finance Center. In addition to overseeing execution, you will play a key role in identifying process improvements particularly around EOT and compliance, standardizing regional practices, and ensuring successful implementation of new controls and compliance tools.

What you will do

• Lead and manage a team of Portfolio Analysts, providing coaching, mentoring and development.
• Oversee day-to-day compliance and EOT operations, ensuring accurate and timely execution of controls, contract reviews, and reporting
• Partner with the business to design, test, and implement new processes.
• Serve as first point of escalation for operational issues, triaging and resolving efficiently.
• Drive process standardization across regions and continuous improvement initiatives, including adoption of automation and IT tools.
• Support implementation and monitoring of controls
• Collaborate with divisional and country finance teams, the Poland Finance Center, and IT to align on processes, reporting, and systems.
• Provide insights and updates to senior leadership on contract compliance performance, risks, and process initiatives.

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field
• 8+ years of finance, accounting, or operations experience
• Fluency in English
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage competing priorities, and drive change
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Knowledge of reporting systems and how to apply them to improve financial and operational processes.
• Experience working effectively in a global, matrixed organization

Preferred

• Fluent French or German
• Knowledge of US GAAP

Travel Percentage: 20%