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. **Who we want:** + **People developers.** Leaders who can coach, develop, and retain strong talent while providing meaningful growth opportunities for analysts. + **Organized professionals.** Managers who bring structure, prioritization, and clarity in complex, fast-paced environment. + **Process drivers.** Those who spot opportunities to simplify, standardize, and automate, and can successfully implement new processes at scale. + **Strong communicators.** Individuals who can move seamlessly between the details and the big picture, proactively keeping stakeholders informed and ensuring clear, concise updates at all levels. + **Business partners.** People who collaborate cross-functionally, build strong relationships, and align financial processes with business needs. **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 Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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. 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.