The ideal candidate would reside in EST/CST time zones. **What You Will Do** As Associate Finance Manager, you’ll partner with Mako and Enabling Technologies (MET) R&D and DRE (Digital, Robotics, & Enabling Technology) teams to manage project spend, drive financial clarity, and support innovation that improves lives. You’ll lead financial modeling and portfolio-level reporting to guide strategic decisions and accelerate growth in a collaborative, high-energy environment. + Partner with R&D project teams to manage monthly close activities, ensuring accurate tracking of expenses and clear understanding of budget variances. + Serve as the finance lead for the DRE business, aligning on project spend and ensuring consistency with partnership agreements. + Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning to support strategic growth across MET R&D. + Identify and implement improvements in complex financial structures to enhance clarity and efficiency. + Build and maintain financial models for new product development, integrating strategic input from upstream marketing. + Present financial model summaries to senior leadership, enabling informed investment decisions. + Develop portfolio-level reporting that supports prioritization and long-term planning across the innovation pipeline. + Collaborate with MET R&D leaders and cross-functional partners to analyze project spend, uncover risks, and drive corrective actions. **What You Need** Required + Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field + 6+ years of relevant finance or FP&A experience Preferred + CPA or MBA + HFM, Oracle, and SAP experience $87,600- $186,700 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors. This role will be posted for a minimum of 3 days. 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. Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.