Senior Manager, Controls Operations and Scoping - Hybrid

Make an impact at a global scale.

In this role, you will shape the foundation of our internal controls environment by leading the scoping and governance of our SOX program. You’ll partner across finance, audit, and global business teams to enhance how controls are designed and executed—driving rigor, consistency, and strategic decision‑making across the organization. If you are energized by complex problem‑solving and influencing outcomes, this is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a critical enterprise program.

What You Will Do

• Lead the annual SOX scoping process to identify key processes, entities, and systems for assessment activities.
• Maintain the SOX assessment schedule and coordinate execution with Internal Audit and external auditors.
• Manage control governance activities and oversee the global risk and control matrix, ensuring standardization across regions.
• Support administration of control platforms by ensuring control information remains accurate and up to date.
• Prepare periodic reporting for leadership and external auditors on SOX testing status and results.
• Evaluate materiality of acquisitions and determine integration requirements for SOX controls.
• Interpret changes in financial policies or regulations and assess their impact on SOX controls.
• Partner with global financial and operational teams to implement and enhance control requirements across the organization.

What You Will Need Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in external audit, internal audit, or internal controls
• Supervisory or project management experience
• Public accounting experience with SEC registrant clients
• Experience managing or evaluating ICFR programs for SOX compliance in a global organization
• Understanding of IT General Controls and segregation of duties
• Knowledge of the COSO 2013 internal controls framework

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA or equivalent professional certification
• Experience with control governance or SOX technology tools
• Experience with global financial reporting systems

Additional Information

• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Locations: Flower Mound, TX; Portage, MI; or Mahwah, NJ

• $135,600 - $293,700 salary plus bonus eligible + benefits. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

Health benefits include: Medical and prescription drug insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, critical illness insurance, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, personalized healthcare support, wellbeing program and tobacco cessation program. Financial benefits include: Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), 401(k) plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), basic life and AD&D insurance, and short-term disability insurance. Stryker 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. Depending on customer requirements employees and new hires in sales and field roles that require access to customer accounts as a function of the job may be required to obtain various vaccinations as an essential function of their role.