Boston Scientific Principal ATR Analyst Global Business Services 

Costa Rica, Heredia 

320203348

Key responsibilities:

• Delivers project results and deliverables on-time, on-budget through effective risk and project management, and by motivating and influencing others.
• Develops positive working relationships with several groups within BSC, including local sites and other departments and acts as liaison for projects and cross-functional training.
• Project Type: Lean/Kaizen, System implementations, Acquisitions, and Integrations.
• Project Scale: Regional and Global large-scale, cross-functional projects and likely to work on more than one project at a time.
• Influences and creates the Value Improvement strategy for our end-to-end and regional processes.
• Makes continuous improvement recommendations and presents project conclusions to businesses, functions and management by leveraging leading practices, monitoring performance metrics, and benchmarking performance across end-to-end business processes.
• Participates in the month-end close process and acts as liaison with supported sites, as needed.
• Supports the accountants on the team, including mentoring and approving journal entries and reconciliations.
• Compiles and analyzes financial information through preparation of reports and general ledger journal entries.
• Assures financial accuracy for all supported sites and supports all legal entity closings on a monthly basis.
• Takes an active interest in seeking opportunities for continuous improvement and standardizing processes across multiple legal entities.
• Establishes and communicates accounting processes by maintaining a thorough understanding of SOX controls, GAAP, and new accounting guidance as appropriate.
• Works to deliver upon key performance metrics and service levels agreed with business partners.

Minimal requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting, or Business.
• 5-7 years’ relevant experience.
• English level desired: Fluent.
• Open to working across global time zones.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to act as team lead of accountants.
• Detail oriented.
• Ability to work independently.
• Must have highly developed customer relationship skills with strong service orientation.
• Experience working in shared service environment preferred.
• Holds self accountable to a performance metric culture building performance excellence.
• Strong integrity.
• Respects others.
• Inquisitive and takes an active interest in opportunities to improve the efficiency of work.
• Team member.

Preferred requirements:

• Advanced knowledge of tools and systems (SAP ECC, SAP HANA, Excel, etc.).
• Experience with MS Excel and PowerPoint.