Senior Accountant

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**Additional Locations:** N/A **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. **Purpose Statement** The Senior Accountant, Accounting & Controls, plays a key role in ensuring financial integrity, regulatory compliance and effective internal controls while supporting the transformation of the South-East Asia (SEA) Accounting & Controls organization toward a more standardized, digitally enabled and process-focused operating model. The role combines local country accounting stewardship with SEA-wide functional responsibilities, supporting the organization's strategic direction of strengthening regional process expertise, leveraging Global Business Services (GBS), and accelerating digitalization and automation. The successful candidate will be a technically competent, analytically strong and digitally curious finance professional who demonstrates independent judgment, proactively identifies improvement opportunities and collaborates effectively across countries and functions. The position offers opportunities to develop regional process expertise, participate in cross-country initiatives and contribute to the future transformation of the SEA finance organization. **Job Description** **1. Country Accounting, Financial Reporting & Governance** - Support the accuracy, completeness and integrity of financial reporting for the assigned country, in accordance with applicable US GAAP, local accounting standards and company policies. - Independently perform and review assigned month-end and quarter-end closing activities, including financial analysis, balance sheet reconciliations and resolution of accounting issues. - Monitor financial results, identify unusual transactions or trends, and provide meaningful analysis and recommendations to management. - Coordinate with GBS to ensure timely and accurate completion of transactional accounting activities, proactively addressing service delivery issues and process gaps. - Support local statutory reporting, external audits, tax-related accounting requirements and other regulatory obligations in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and subject matter experts. - Act as a key local finance contact for accounting and controls matters, escalating significant issues appropriately. **2. Internal Controls, Risk & Compliance** - Apply established internal control frameworks and company policies to maintain effective financial controls and compliance. - Monitor the execution and effectiveness of key controls, including balance sheet reconciliations, accounting reviews and other assigned control activities. - Identify potential control deficiencies, compliance risks and process weaknesses, recommending practical corrective actions. - Support internal and external audits, including audit documentation, issue resolution and remediation tracking. - Collaborate with country stakeholders, regional process owners and GBS to improve control effectiveness and consistency. - Update process documentation and control procedures as business requirements and control frameworks evolve. **3. SEA Process Expertise & Standardization** - Develop functional expertise in assigned SEA accounting processes, such as general accounting, fixed assets, revenue recognition or other designated areas. - Support regional process owners in establishing consistent accounting practices, standardized procedures and effective controls across SEA markets. - Independently identify process gaps, inefficiencies and opportunities for regional standardization. - Participate in cross-country projects and progressively take ownership of defined regional process improvement initiatives. - Collaborate with GBS and regional stakeholders to improve process quality, service delivery, operational efficiency and accountability. - Share technical knowledge and best practices with colleagues across SEA, supporting capability development and reducing dependency on country-specific expertise. **4. Digitalization, Automation & Data Analytics** - Actively leverage digital tools, including Power BI, data analytics platforms and approved AI-enabled solutions, to improve financial reporting, controls and operational efficiency. - Identify opportunities to automate repetitive activities, enhance data quality and reduce manual intervention. - Develop or contribute to dashboards, analytical reports and other digital solutions that improve transparency and decision-making. - Translate financial and operational data into meaningful insights and actionable recommendations. - Partner with regional digitalization stakeholders to implement and adopt new tools and technologies. - Demonstrate curiosity and initiative in exploring emerging digital capabilities and practical applications within Finance. **5. Business Partnering & Decision Support** - Build effective working relationships with country FP&A teams, commercial stakeholders, GBS, regional process owners and other cross-functional partners. - Interpret financial results and communicate key findings, risks and opportunities clearly to relevant stakeholders. - Apply business understanding to identify financial implications of operational decisions and propose practical solutions. - Support management decision-making through financial analysis, scenario evaluation and structured problem-solving. - Proactively engage stakeholders to understand evolving business requirements and identify opportunities to improve finance support. **6. Change Leadership & Continuous Improvement** - Champion the transition toward a more standardized, process-led and digitally enabled SEA Accounting & Controls organization. - Challenge existing processes constructively and recommend improvements that enhance efficiency, quality and controls. - Support implementation of organizational, process and technology changes, including communication, training and stakeholder engagement. - Demonstrate adaptability, ownership and a continuous improvement mindset in a changing operating environment. - Contribute to building a collaborative regional finance team that shares expertise, resources and accountability across country boundaries. **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. Learn more at