Senior Accountant

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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

Performs a variety of complex duties in general accounting such as analyzing accounts, preparing reports, reconciling intercompany accounts, and performing the monthly financial close and consolidation, initiating bank transfers, maintaining fixed assets and CIP, and maintaining & performing software interfaces with SAP.  Measures performance against key performance indicators and metrics, and continually identifies ways to improve and streamline processes.

Key responsibility

• Oversees the maintenance of accounts and records by managing disbursements, expenses and income.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information through preparation of reports, general ledger entries and journal entries.

Assures financial accuracy by preparing business unit and consolidated income statements and balance sheets and other accounting statements and reports.

• Designs, modifies, installs and maintains general accounting systems to provide records of assets, liabilities and financial transactions.
• Establishes and communicates accounting policies by maintaining a thorough understanding of GAP and new accounting guidance as appropriate.
• Takes an active interest in seeking opportunities for continuous improvement, standardizing processes across multiple legal entities.
• Works to deliver upon key performance metrics and service levels agreed with business partners.
• Specific to the fixed asset specialty: Process capital requests and maintain fixed asset database.

Specific to travel specialty: Responsible for monitoring adherence to travel and expense policies by auditing reports, ensures accuracy of expense reporting and maintains interfaces.

Job requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Accounting & Controlling (A&C) or related finance functions.
• At least 2-3 years of commercial finance/business partnering experience.
• Experience working in a multinational corporation (MNC) is strongly preferred.
• Exposure to Shared Services environments, cross-functional collaboration, and regional stakeholder management is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders across functions and geographies.
• Requisition ID: 635491

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.

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