Finance Systems Lead: Planning & Automation

Stryker; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Wellbeing program

Job summary

Stryker seeks a Lead Analyst, Financial Systems to drive planning, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting platforms, partnering with Finance and IT to deliver scalable solutions that support business performance.

The role requires collaboration across teams to streamline data loads, governance, and master data controls while delivering reliable system enhancements and end-user support. This is a hybrid position with on-site Wednesdays at the designated Stryker office location.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in finance, accounting, financial systems, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting financial planning, consolidation, or reporting platforms such as SAP BPC, HFM, Anaplan, or similar systems.
• Experience managing financial data loads, reconciliations, and system administration activities.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.

Responsibilities

• Lead system readiness activities for month-end close, forecasting, and planning cycles, including scenario setup, exchange rates, calendars, and process validation.
• Manage financial data integrations, data loads, reconciliations, and validation activities across planning and reporting systems.
• Administer financial systems, including user access, security roles, hierarchies, metadata, and governance controls.
• Support planning applications through requirements gathering, testing, deployment validation, maintenance, and production support.
• Partner with Finance and Information Technology teams to translate business requirements into scalable system solutions.
• Develop and maintain system documentation, operating procedures, governance standards, and finance master data controls.
• Lead system enhancements, upgrades, automation initiatives, and process improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen controls, and improve the user experience.
• Provide reporting support, end-user training, and subject matter expertise for financial planning and reporting systems.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Finance knowledge

System administration

Data reconciliation

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP BPC

HFM

Anaplan

Power BI

Job description

Stryker seeks a Lead Analyst, Financial Systems to drive planning, forecasting, consolidation, and reporting platforms, partnering with Finance and IT to deliver scalable solutions that support business performance.

The role requires collaboration across teams to streamline data loads, governance, and master data controls while delivering reliable system enhancements and end-user support. This is a hybrid position with on-site Wednesdays at the designated Stryker office location.