Senior Accounting (contractor)

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

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

Purpose Statement

Responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy and completeness of country financial reporting by overseeing the month-end close process, statutory compliance, internal controls, and financial governance. Acts as the key finance partner to local and regional stakeholders by providing financial insights, driving process improvements, strengthening the control environment, and collaborating with Global Business Services (GBS) and Centers of Excellence (COEs) to deliver efficient and compliant finance operations.

Main Responsibility

 

Financial Close and Reporting

 

• Lead the country month-end, quarter-end and year-end close review process, ensuring financial results are complete, accurate and compliant with US GAAP and local statutory requirements.
• Review financial information, balance sheet reconciliations and journal entries prepared by Global Business Services (GBS), identifying inaccuracies and deviation from accounting policies.
• Perform analytical reviews of financial results, investigate material fluctuations and provide meaningful variance analysis to business and finance stakeholders.
• Ensure accounting treatments comply with corporate accounting policies and applicable local regulatory requirements.

 

Statutory Audit and Tax Compliance

 

• Lead the annual statutory audit process, coordinating with external auditors, internal stakeholders and GBS to ensure timely completion of audit deliverables.
• Coordinate corporate income tax compliance, including preparation and review of tax schedules, supporting documentation and responses to tax consultants and authorities.
• Support other statutory reporting requirements including financial statements, regulatory filings and government surveys where applicable.
• Ensure audit observations and recommendations are appropriately addressed and closed.

 

Internal Controls and Governance

 

• Lead the execution and review of Control Self-Assessment (CSA) activities and internal control monitoring.
• Partner with process owners and stakeholders to evaluate control effectiveness, identify control gaps and implement remediation plans.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies and internal control requirements.
• Track remediation actions arising from internal audits, external audits and compliance reviews until closure.

 

Business Partnering

 

• Serve as the finance partner to commercial and functional leaders by providing financial guidance, accounting support and interpretation of financial impacts.
• Support business initiatives by evaluating accounting implications, financial risks and compliance considerations.
• Collaborate with Regional Finance, FP&A, Tax, Treasury, GBS and COEs to resolve accounting and operational issues.

 

Performance Management

 

• Monitor key finance operational metrics and KPIs related to financial close, compliance, audit and service delivery.
• Drive timely resolution of issues impacting KPI performance and prompt escalation to management and stakeholders for additional support.
• Support governance meetings with GBS and COEs by reviewing service performance and identifying improvement opportunities.

 

Continuous Improvement and Digital Transformation

 

• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize and automate finance processes across the country organization.
• Champion digitalization initiatives by leveraging automation, analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies to improve efficiency, data quality and internal controls.
• Participate in regional and global finance transformation initiatives and support implementation of new systems, tools and process improvements.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence across finance activities.

 

Shared Services Governance

 

• Act as the primary country finance representative for services delivered by GBS and COEs.
• Monitor service delivery performance, resolve operational issues and ensure responsibilities between local finance, GBS and COEs are clearly defined and executed.
• Provide governance and oversight rather than performing transactional accounting activities.

 

Knowledge and Experience

 

• Strong understanding of US GAAP and local statutory accounting requirements.
• Experience working within a Shared Service Centre (SSC)/Global Business Services operating model.
• Knowledge of internal controls and risk management.
• Experience leading statutory audits and corporate income tax processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP ECC.
• Familiarity with data analytics, visualization tools and automation solutions (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and digital technologies to improve finance processes and controls.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering skills.
• Project management and continuous improvement experience.

 

Requisition ID: 631611

 

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 by providing a 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, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.