Senior Finance Manager, Deliver/Inventory Ep&A Squad Lead

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager, Deliver/Inventory EP&A Squad Lead. This role can be sourced out of any J&J location globally in Asia Pacific, North America, EMEA, and LATAM (i.e. not restricted to New Brunswick, NJ).

Caring for the world, one person at a time, has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products, and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.

Johnson & Johnson is the world's most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and MedTech markets. Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The Senior Finance Manager, Deliver/Inventory EP&A Squad Lead will be a critical leader within the Finance Solutions & Technology team supporting Project SigniFi, which is a multi-year program intended to deliver global standardization, enhanced digital capabilities, and process simplification with the objective of enabling an improved and optimal employee experience and ultimately the J&J Finance Way.

The Deliver/Inventory EP&A Squad Lead is expected to lead a team of 5-8 Finance professionals/managers and an extended core team of cross functional experts who will be accountable for driving the design, build, testing, and deployment of standardized Planning & Forecasting capabilities across J&J Med Tech, Vision, & Corporate.

This individual must leverage a refined, multi-functional toolset of business expertise, technical knowledge, and digital acumen to effectively interact with a breadth of business & project stakeholders. The successful candidate must be able to engage and operate with program teams at an execution level, as well as with senior leadership at a strategic level. The leader will need to develop strong business partnerships across key stakeholder groups, including but not limited to: Business Unit Experts (incl Integration Leads, SMEs, & FP&A), EP&A Finance, Datahub Reporting, J&J Technology (JJT), Central Finance (CFIN), Data Design, Project Management, Change, Communication & Training (CC&T), Integration & Deployment Team, Digital Finance & Innovation Teams, & SigniFi Program Leadership Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Stay abreast of capacity led enhancements impacting Deliver & Inventory models and ensure that enhancements are aligned with Squad designs and the SigniFi guiding principles and consider impacts to ongoing development work.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of legacy processes and business requirements. Plan/execute fit-gap workshops & ongoing discussions with stakeholders in order to develop & document a comprehensive set of Integrated Business Requirements that will transform the legacy process into standardized SigniFi Planning & Forecasting process/capabilities, driving value and efficiency in line with the SigniFi guiding principles.
• Develop and deliver program presentations for business stakeholders and senior-level program leadership.
• Lead Supply Chain Squad, comprised of a global team of cross functional experts, in the end-to-end design, build, testing, and deployment of standardized Planning & Forecasting capabilities for Deliver & Inventory.
• Responsible for working closely with JJT to ensure Integrate Business Requirements are translated into technical specs for build phase and development is prioritized according to the project plan. Also, responsible for defining the testing strategy, inclusive of developing test use cases, writing test scripts, and partnering with SMEs to execute tests and document/remediate any issues.
• Lead a high performing team of 5-8 Finance professionals/managers, including up to 5 direct reports.
• Partner across the organization to drive global core business capability standardization, alignment, and adoption for the finance function. Ensure successful deployment through flawless project execution, including post go-live hypercare support.
• Partner closely with key project team members to develop an integrated project plan (inclusive of objective, scope, timeline, resourcing, interdependencies, hand-offs, etc.). Ensure cross-program interdependencies, conflicts, and challenges are transparently communicated to SigniFi program leadership & proactively work with respective stakeholders to implement controls & risk mitigations to resolve issues and keep project on track.

Qualifications

• Must have experience supervising direct reports or leading project teams.
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is required, preferably in Finance or Accounting.
• Innovative and continuous improvement mindset with the ability to translate a complex business operations landscape into a streamlined process design is preferred.
• Change management skills and ability to work in ambiguous situations, including the ability to drive others to adapt to a changing environment is required.
• This role can be in any J&J geographic location, but presence in New Brunswick, NJ will be required on an ad hoc basis.
• Excellent oral and written communication, analytical, influencing skills and ability to develop strong relationships with executive leadership team members is required.
• The ability to partner with, influence and effectively communicate with all levels of the organization, including senior management is required.
• Ability to work in ambiguous situations, proactively identifying and mitigating process risks within a cross-functional, global organization and effectively lead and govern decision-making bodies is required.
• Experience designing, developing, implementing, and managing FP&A technology solutions is preferred.
• Foundational project management skills are required.
• A minimum of 8 years of finance, accounting or related business experience is required.
• The role may require 10%-25% domestic and/or international travel, based on employee’s home location.

The base pay range for this position is $113,000 - $195,500

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/ performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.

Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs such as health insurance, savings plan, pension plan, disability plan, vacation pay, sick time, holiday pay, and work, personal and family time off in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans. Additional information can be found through the link below.

For additional general information on company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.