Senior Finance Analyst

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Finance Business Partners

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Finance Analyst (Deliver), located in Tokyo

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

The Vision Deliver Finance team is recruiting a Senior Finance Analyst who will provide finance support for Vision Deliver organization for Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Japan market. The team partners with Deliver organization (i.e. logistics and customer services functions), influencing business strategy and achievement of financial goals by providing financial analysis and decision support. This role also partners across end-to-end finance functions for daily finance support to the Deliver organization and supports FP&A process changes. This role focuses on the Japan market (one of the largest markets worldwide), while also assuming responsibilities for few other Asia-Pacific markets in Deliver support.

Key Responsibilities:

• The Japan Senior Finance Analyst will report to Finance Manager (based in Singapore).
• Leads business planning & update process and coordinates detailed bottoms-up planning for key markets (Japan, and other Asia-Pacific markets)
• Supports submissions in regional FP&A processes for business planning cycles & updates, forecasting, and actuals reporting.
• Prepares regular reports and commentary on Deliver-owned financial metrics.
• Leads or supports period-closing activities, in collaboration with the accounting function from global services. This includes accruals estimations & validation, fixed asset transactions and executing intercompany cross-charges.
• Prepares monthly performance and planning decks, adding first-line commentary to enable framing by the manager for leadership reviews
• Highlight risks and opportunities that give insight to business partners and drive decisions.
• Perform ad hoc reporting & performance analytics, such as scenario analysis and cost benchmarking studies.
• Support strong compliance and accounting policy awareness, within the Deliver function.
• Lead or support FP&A process changes for the responsible areas

Qualifications

Education:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with a major in Accounting, Economics or Finance.
• Any advanced degrees or professional certifications such as MBA, CPA, CMA, etc. is preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of finance, accounting processes, or related business experience is required.
• Proficiency with common Microsoft Office applications such as PowerPoint, and advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Formulas, various look-up functions) is required.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Ability to develop trusted partnerships across multiple levels in both business organization and finance, with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Strong planning and prioritization capability to work under matrixed organizational structure
• Strong learning agility and willingness to work in flexible and dynamic environment across Asia-Pacific markets

Preferred:

• Ability to work autonomously and accurately
• Strong financial analytical skills
• Fluency in business level English (TOEIC above 800); Business level Japanese. Confidence to present to non-Japanese audience in English.

Other:

• 5% International travel for Asia-Pacific responsibilities

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Accelerating, Budgeting, Budget Management, Business Behavior, Coaching, Confidentiality, Data Analysis, Detail-Oriented, Expense Controls, Financial Analysis, Financial Disclosures, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Learning Agility, Leverages Information, Microsoft Office, Problem Solving, Process Optimization, Process Oriented, Relationship Building, Service Excellence, Stakeholder Management, Teamwork