Senior Finance Analyst – FP&A (Bonus & Commissions) | 18-Month Contract

Ready to take on a high-impact finance role? As a Senior Finance Analyst – FP&A (Bonus & Commissions), you’ll be at the heart of financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision-making. Reporting to the Senior FP&A Manager, you’ll work with the business on the end-to-end Bonus & Commission (B&C) accruals, results, and insights, shaping compensation strategies across the business.

This high-visibility role partners closely with Commercial Managers, the Commercial Director, and key back-office functions, providing financial governance, in-depth analysis, and independent insights that drive smarter decisions and unlock business value.

We’re looking for a critical thinker and strategic influencer—someone who thrives on analysis, challenges the status quo, and supports business leaders with data-driven solutions.

Ready to make an impact?

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnering:

* Builds and maintains a relationship with key stakeholders. * Understands stakeholder needs and expectations and how and when to best engage them. * Communicates and seeks input proactively upfront before decisions and provides advice. * Leverages business understanding to target questions to provide stakeholders alternative perspectives and to build credibility and trust. * Speaks up and reports to direct management when information / data seems incorrect.

Business Planning, budgeting, and Forecasting:

* Supports the weekly Agenda process including stakeholder alignment. * Supports the Quarterly Forecasting Process. * Supports the Annual Budget Process. * Supports/Leads the annual Quota setting, awards, and quota P&L process.

Performance Management:

* P&L control, analysis and insight for the B&C costs * Responsible for Month-end close B&C costs for all business franchises. * Provides variance analysis and commentary to explain monthly results * Provides key monthly & ad hoc performance reporting for your Franchise. E.g. KPI Review Deck * Communicates and seeks input proactively upfront before decisions and provides advice on R&Os.

Decision Support:

* Assists in providing modelling and inputs necessary to support stakeholders in making business decisions. * Provides timely & accurate information to enable key business decisions.

Projects:

* As identified in line with organisational goals. * Support Franchise specific projects and initiatives. * Support Business wide strategic initiatives. * Support finance Strategic projects and initiatives e.g. Continuous improvement.

Team:

* Team coverage and support * Support the education and training across the finance team * Support the Development of financial acumen across the Franchise you support.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Critical Requirements (e.g. skills, experience, qualifications):

* Relationship building abilities. * Takes initiative and actively problem solves. * Good time, task and organisational management skills. * Able to communicate and manage stakeholder expectations. * Strong detail orientation. * Team support and engagement. * Technology savvy. * Prior experience with sales bonus & commission plans/costs (highly advantageous but not critical).

Desirable Requirements (eg: skills, experience, qualifications):

* CA/CPA qualified or working towards. * Intermediate to advanced excel knowledge with the ability to leverage advanced formulas, Macros, tools and shortcuts to efficiently and effectively analyse and provide insights on data. * Able to create advanced Power BI reports as well as provide coaching and support to other team members.

Other requirements (e.g.: travel, on-call responsibilities):

* Travel when required

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company 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.