Senior Inventory Accountant

Additional Locations: Netherlands-Kerkrade; Poland-Warsaw

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.

Global Business Services 

The Global Business Services (GBS) team is a function established within Boston Scientific, designed to improve the efficiency of key business processes by taking opportunities to drive standardization, leverage resources, knowledge and skills and monitor the effectiveness of service delivery against benchmarks and service level agreements. Our team has a great diversity of personalities with an international background and functional expertise.

The vision of GBS at Boston Scientific is to be recognized as a world-class Center of Operational Excellence driven by the desire for excellence in its people, processes, execution and business partnerships. GBS is designed to deliver significant business benefits to employees and customers of Boston Scientific and is championing the development of a continues improvement culture. We are developing a performance-based culture supported by tools, training and well-defined accountability, where people can build their career or prepare for a role in the wider business or elsewhere within GBS.

Recently the GBS streamlining has undergone a revised approach to step away from regional thinking and behavior and is transforming existing and new service lines into a global view of standardization.

About the role:

The candidate's role is aimed, to be eventually, subject matter expert for EMEA (Europe, South Africa and Middle East) inventory accounting processes, gaining strong understanding of associated operational processes. Overall workload expectation is approx. 50% operational activities and 50% projects/administrative. Within the operational part the job is a mix of approximately 35% accounting and 65% analyses for the designated BSC manufacturing sites, Tier 1 and Tier 2 EMEA warehouses and consignment inventory.

You are the point of contact for all things inventory, and you drive expected behavior and influence stakeholders across the regions. You will be a senior accountant working closely together with junior accounts in the existing team. You operate within a multi-cultural, diverse and inclusive driven team. It is expected that you will proactively identify ways to improve and streamline processes and are leading the implementation of process improvements and standardizations while cooperating with other GBS business process leaders. The candidate performs a variety of complex duties related to balance sheet and profit and loss chart of accounts. Your responsibilities include: 

Your responsibilities include: 

• Core role is subject matter expert of supply chain inventory accounting processes, being a solid business partner for other associated global finance teams, supply chain management, divisional central accounting, FP&A, business controls and multi region GBS teams.
• End to end ownership of balance sheet inventory (i.e., capital equipment, Irish manufacturing, transfer price variance).
• End to end ownership P&L other cost of goods sold (i.e., purchase price variance, drop-shipment sales and cost of goods sold, transfer price variance).
• Be business partner (i.e., Irish, Supply Chain, FP&A, Local Finance) and provide business analytics, be able to turn financials into narrative.
• Operationally execute complex account reconciliations and review, approve prepared internal controls, journal entry and reconciliation prepared by junior accounts.
• Drive continues improvement, value improvement, partner with global process steward.
• Mentorship juniors in team, globalization view ATR inventory and backup structure other senior position, consult on internal controls.
• Ensure all activities comply with legal demands, ethical standards and the Internal Quality Management System.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Financial accounting or Business Economics
• 5+ years relevant experience
• SAP experience, additional automation capabilities are a plus
• Fluent in English, additional language capabilities are a plus
• DE&I minded individual
• Strong verbal & written communication skills and focus on building relationships 
• Self-motivated yet team player and takes ownership in all responsibilities
• Change agent that focuses on a high level of quality 
• Continuous Improvement and analytical mindset
• Role to be filled at Senior Accountant level with demonstrable experience and skillset

What we offer you:

• Attractive benefits package - very competitive salary (including 8% holiday pay, 13th month and yearly bonus)
• 30 days of annual leave
• A very good pension scheme
• A stock purchase program
• Excellent training/development programmes to influence your career
• Inhouse gym facility (free of charge)
• Option to lease a (electric) bicycle
• Inspirational colleagues & culture
• Fast Growing and innovative environment
• A team-oriented company culture
• International opportunities

Requisition ID: 630781

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.