Finance Deployment Lead Analyst

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 jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Finance Business Partners

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Description:

IMFT is the transformation organization within Innovative Medicine Finance, dedicated to enabling Finance and its business partners to deliver outstanding value and balanced competitive advantage for our organization, partners, and patients.

We are advancing Finance with digital proficiencies and tools to become an insightful partner that accelerates decision-making, optimizes resources, and fuels innovation. Our focus is on identifying what matters most, prioritizing initiatives with real impact, sequencing change strategically, and bringing subject area to our transformation efforts.

As a member of IMFT, you’ll be at the heart of delivering a coordinated, multi-functional transformation that optimizes resources, investment allocation, and value creation across the organization.

The Finance Deployment Lead Analyst will be part of the Innovative Medicines Finance Deployment Team, working with the Finance Deployment Manager; supporting the implementation of the E2E future state Finance processes as part of the S4/Hana implementation within the global transformation program – including

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

General Responsibilities

• Support the Finance workstream through the deployment phases of all Transcend releases

• Assist Data Migration, Business Simulation Testing (BST), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Business Adoption, Cutover, and Hypercare

• Partner with Business Process Owners (BPO) and Global Template Owners (GPO) on global template development and deployment

• Identify and analyse deployment risks and mitigation activities

• Identify workstream interdependencies with outside programs (Signifi Transact, MT Transcend, others)

• Provide Credo based leadership to foster an environment of inclusiveness and continued career and personal development

Data Conversion, Migration, and Validation

• Prepare the data conversion and validation as part of the integration

• Support data mapping validation

• Assist validation activities and enforce to timelines according to deployment map

• Ensure high quality data is delivered in line with Common Information Model standards

Testing Planning and Execution

• Support BST and UAT cycles for each release

• Partner with IT, Global Template Owners, and Business Process Owner teams to resolve test defects

• Review and analyse testing results in line with compliance standards

Business Adoption

• Partner with Business Adoption Leads, Business Process Owner Team, Base Business Stakeholders to deploy end to end organizational change strategies

• Support post-go live hyper care period to ensure end users can perform all essential functions in the period following go live

• Ensure consistency to J&J change management framework

Qualifications Required:

• Minimum of 6+ years professional related experience required

• MBA (Finance) /CA/ ICWA

• Ability to comprehend SAP design documentation and test scripts

• Knowledge and experience working with SAP S/4 HANA Finance is a must.

• Solid understanding of Overall Finance Process is required.

• Strong analytic skills and ability to balance big picture with attention to detail

• Hard-working to develop expertise in sophisticated financial topics

• Agile outlook

• Good communication skills and ability to clearly articulate complex issues

• Great teammate and collaborative working style

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience as Lead Analyst for a large manufacturing site

• Experience leading testing cycles – BST, UAT, data validation

• Knowledge of digital tools (PowerQuery, PowerBI)

• Experience with working in global / virtual environments

• Experience using Jira project tool

• Experience in Central Finance.

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.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Budgeting, Budget Management, Coaching, Communication, Expense Controls, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Disclosures, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Financial Statement Analysis, Leverages Information, Problem Solving, Relationship Building, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management