GBS Magellan COE Senior Accountant (Inventory)

Boston Scientific Gruppe; Kerkrade; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Scientific seeks a GBS Magellan COE Senior Accountant (Inventory) to lead inventory accounting within SAP S/4HANA deployments. The role partners with global teams to drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across finance operations.

The candidate will support deployment readiness, design discussions, test scenarios, and training while ensuring accurate documentation and stakeholder communication across regions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting required.
• 5+ years of experience in accounting or finance operations.
• Strong knowledge of inventory accounting processes.
• SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA experience.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations or large-scale transformations is a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and geographic regions.
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and focus on building relationships.

Responsibilities

• Support SAP S/4HANA deployments from design through hypercare by assisting with fit-gap assessments and gathering and validating business requirements.
• Participate in solution design discussions and provide GBS ATR process input to support business and deployment readiness.
• Support adoption of global standard processes and controls by identifying process gaps and recommending practical improvements in SAP S/4HANA.
• Prepare and maintain process documentation, work instructions, and deployment materials, and share best practices with users across entities and regions.
• Prepare and execute business test scenarios and support coordination of user acceptance testing activities.
• Validate system functionality against documented requirements and work with technical teams to investigate, document, and retest defects.
• Prepare training materials and job aids and deliver process and system training to GBS ATR users.
• Support stakeholder communication and readiness activities by providing process guidance during deployment and hypercare.
• Analyze deployment issues and operational defects, document findings, and elevate complex process or system matters as appropriate.
• Coordinate assigned issue-resolution activities across Magellan, IT, and Service Delivery teams, maintain issue logs, and follow up on open actions.
• Identify automation and process-efficiency opportunities using SAP S/4HANA capabilities and support implementation of approved improvements.
• Document enhancement requests, provide supporting analysis, and assist with testing and implementation of sustainable Finance solutions.

Skills

Inventory accounting

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical skills

Verbal & written communication

Problem-solving

Multi-stakeholder coordination

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting

Tools

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

GBS Magellan COE Senior Accountant (Inventory)

Onsite Location(s):

Kerkrade, NL

Additional Locations: Netherlands-Kerkrade; Costa Rica-Heredia; Poland-Warsaw

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

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 continuous 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.

About the role

This role serves as a subject matter expert supporting Boston Scientific's global SAP S/4HANA transformation program. This role partners closely with Service Delivery, Global Process Leads, Local Finance, Digital/IT teams, and the Magellan Program to drive deployment readiness, process standardization, issue resolution, and continuous improvement across Finance operations.

The role applies strong accounting and SAP expertise to ensure successful implementation and sustainment of global business processes while advancing standardization, automation, and operational excellence.

Key responsibilities include

• Support SAP S/4HANA deployments from design through hypercare by assisting with fit-gap assessments and gathering and validating business requirements.
• Participate in solution design discussions and provide GBS ATR process input to support business and deployment readiness.
• Support adoption of global standard processes and controls by identifying process gaps and recommending practical improvements in SAP S/4HANA.
• Prepare and maintain process documentation, work instructions, and deployment materials, and share best practices with users across entities and regions.
• Prepare and execute business test scenarios and support coordination of user acceptance testing activities.
• Validate system functionality against documented requirements and work with technical teams to investigate, document, and retest defects.
• Prepare training materials and job aids and deliver process and system training to GBS ATR users.
• Support stakeholder communication and readiness activities by providing process guidance during deployment and hypercare.
• Analyze deployment issues and operational defects, document findings, and elevate complex process or system matters as appropriate.
• Coordinate assigned issue-resolution activities across Magellan, IT, and Service Delivery teams, maintain issue logs, and follow up on open actions.
• Identify automation and process-efficiency opportunities using SAP S/4HANA capabilities and support implementation of approved improvements.
• Document enhancement requests, provide supporting analysis, and assist with testing and implementation of sustainable Finance solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• 5+ years of experience in accounting or finance operations
• Strong knowledge of inventory accounting processes
• SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA experience.
• Experience supporting ERP implementations or large-scale transformations is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholders and geographic regions
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and focus on building relationships
• Self-motivated yet team player and takes ownership in all responsibilities
• Change agent that focuses on a high level of quality
• Continuous Improvement and analytical mindset
• Fluent in English, additional language capabilities are a plus

Requisition ID:634775

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life byprovidinga broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological,neurologicaland urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn .