Senior Financial Analyst (Hybrid)

Expand and Support the Financial Engine Behind Scalable Operations

Join the high impact Communications Global Quality Operations Finance team that sits at the heart of global manufacturing decision‑making. In this role, you will partner closely with operational leaders to shape how products are built, where capital is invested, and how resources are deployed to drive margin improvement and execution. You’ll work at the intersection of operations and strategy, turning data into insight that supports smarter tradeoffs and scalable growth. This is an ideal opportunity for a finance professional who enjoys hands‑on analysis, broad exposure, and meaningful business partnership in a complex environment.

What You Will Do

Business Partnership & Decision Support

• Partner directly with Communications GQO leaders to deliver analytical support and financial insight across manufacturing, quality, engineering, and supply chain, strengthening financial rigor in operational spend, capital projects, and material costs while providing fact‑based analyses and concise narratives to support tradeoff discussions and decision‑making.

FP&A, Planning, and Reporting

• Support monthly FP&A processes by executing close activities, variance analysis, and performance commentary, while coordinating analytical inputs for annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long‑range plans and maintaining reporting that provides clear visibility into cost, productivity, and operational performance across assigned operations

• Develop and maintain reporting that provides visibility into cost, productivity, and operational performance.

Cost Savings & Productivity Initiatives

• Partner with Operations, Sourcing, and Engineering to support the identification, quantification, and tracking of cost reduction and productivity initiatives.

• Build and maintain financial models to track savings and benefit realization, ensuring alignment between operational execution and reported financial results.

Make vs. Buy & Strategic Modeling

• Develop financial models and scenario analyses to evaluate make‑versus‑buy decisions, assessing labor, overhead, capital, quality, supply risk, cost, capacity, resilience, and margin tradeoffs to support sourcing and manufacturing strategy decisions.

Communications & Ad Hoc Analysis

• Prepare executive‑ready analyses, presentations, and financial summaries that translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights, actionable recommendations, and decision support for operations and finance leaders, while also supporting ad hoc analyses tied to capital investments, long‑range planning, and strategic initiatives.

Process Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and analytical processes by enhancing financial tools, models, and reporting to better support timely, data‑driven operational decision‑making.

Compliance, Controls & Inventory Analytics

• Support compliance with corporate finance policies, SOX requirements, and internal control standards through analysis, documentation, monitoring, and identification of control or process risks within operational finance workflows.

• Provide analytical support for inventory controls, including cycle count performance, inventory adjustments, and standard cost accuracy, while partnering on improvement actions to maintain alignment with financial policy and SOX requirements.

What You Will Need

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

• Minimum 2 years of professional experience in finance or accounting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a manufacturing, operations, or supply chain environment.

• Experience building dashboards or management reporting in Power BI.

• Exposure to cost‑reduction initiatives, productivity tracking, or make‑vs‑buy analysis.

• Experience with leveraging Co-Pilot AI/Agents for productivity and workflow improvements

• Experience with Hyperion Enterprise, Oracle, and SAP

• CPA, CMA, or similar professional certification.

Work Flexibility

This is a hybrid position with an expectation to be onsite 2-3 days in Flower Mound, Texas.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• US10 : $76,500 - $122,000 USD Annual

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.