
Lead Financial Analyst (Hybrid)
Cary, IL · HybridJob$78–143K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Lead Financial Analyst will support the Sage Business Unit by turning financial data into insights for business decisions, resource allocation, and long-term performance. The role partners with functional leaders on financial planning, forecasting, and performance management, while improving FP&A processes. It follows a hybrid arrangement, with onsite work one to two days per week in Cary, Illinois, or Portage, Michigan.
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Full job description
Make an impact that matters within the Sage Business Unit. In this role, you will turn financial data into insights that influence business decisions, resource allocation, and long-term performance across a dynamic, growing business. You will partner with functional leaders to strengthen financial planning, forecasting, and performance management while improving the scalability and effectiveness of FP&A processes.
What You Will Do
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Partner with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Shared Services to provide actionable insights that influence strategic priorities and capital allocation.
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Analyze expense budgets, including SG&A and centralized functions, to identify cost optimization opportunities and ensure alignment with business goals.
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Contribute to the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes to ensure financial targets align with organizational strategy.
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Develop and implement KPIs, dashboards, and trend analyses to monitor business performance and drive accountability across teams.
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Drive process improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability in FP&A operations, including automation and system optimization projects.
What You Will Need
Required Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
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Minimum 4 years of experience in FP&A, financial planning and analysis, corporate finance, financial analysis, business finance, or a related finance function.
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Experience analyzing financial and operational data using Microsoft Excel, including complex financial models and multidimensional datasets.
Preferred Qualifications
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CPA or MBA.
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Experience in FP&A within a large, publicly traded organization.
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Familiarity with SG&A management, consolidated planning, and capital allocation.
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Experience with enterprise planning systems (e.g., SAP, Hyperion, Oracle).
Hybrid: This role will follow a hybrid work arrangement, with an expectation to work onsite 1–2 days per week in either Cary, IL or Portage, MI , with flexibility to work remotely on other days.
United States of America Pay Ranges:
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USN : $77,700 - $129,500 USD Annual
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US10 : $85,500 - $142,500 USD Annual
View the U.S. work location and transparency guide (https://view.stryker.com/viewer/fcd609f31e39eac44598615224ec7216?iid=69deda99678eb495e0710914#1) to find the pay range for your location.
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.
Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Stryker is an EO employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability.
How this job compares
Set against the 5,990 open Financial Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$78–143K/yr
- Illinois median$82–120K/yr150 salary ranges
- US median$85–135K/yr3,929 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $110K, is 10% above the Illinois median midpoint ($100K) — in the middle half of Financial Analyst salary ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 194 open Financial Analyst jobs in Illinois and 5,990 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Financial Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (4,811 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 3,112 of the 5,990 open Financial Analyst jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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