Finance Manager - External Innovation

Johnson & Johnson•New Brunswick, NJ

6d•$102,000 - $177,100•Hybrid

About The Position

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 Job Function: Finance Job Sub Function: Finance Business Partners Job Category: Professional All Job Posting Locations: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America Job Description: Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Finance Manager - External Innovation to support Digital Finance across External Innovation Finance. This role will preferably be based in Titusville, NJ but consideration may be given to other NJ-based J&J sites like New Brunswick, NJ. Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company. If the successful candidate is within driving distance from Titusville or New Brunswick, NJ then we request the candidate follows the J&J flex model of 3 days on site 2 days’ work from home. 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/. About Innovative Medicine Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine Responsibilities Include: This role will lead the digital transformation of our innoVISION Valuation Platform to support M&A deal analysis, ensuring successful go-live and run-state. This role also supports our existing portfolio of Digital Finance solutions across Innovative Medicine Business Development (IMBD) and Venture Capital (JJDC).

Requirements

A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required, preferably with a major in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics or Engineering
A minimum of 5 years of experience with finance or accounting is required.
Strong financial analysis and systems skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau) and the ability to adapt to a changing technology systems landscape are required.
Strong experience in Financial Modeling using advanced Microsoft Excel skills (i.e. Pivot Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUP functions) is required.
Demonstrated track record of independently managing project timelines and deliverables is required.
Ability to be flexible with time of working hours given nature of the work, is very crucial for this role and is required.
Ability to collaborate and partner with people at all levels and have strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills are required.
The candidate should be able to think creatively, maintain and improve sound business processes while working in a dynamic team environment is required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with planning tools like IBM Planning Analytics or Anaplan, is preferred.
Prior experience working in a Finance role supporting Medicines or Medical Technology, Commercial or Research organization in healthcare industry, is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Partner closely with Corporate M&A Finance, External Innovation Finance, and MedTech BD Finance throughout the lifecycle of innoVISION and established Digital Finance solutions to understand stakeholder needs, develop technical requirements, prioritize requirements, and action.
Identify, architect, build, and operate future-state capabilities and processes using innoVISION to support BD and M&A transactions (e.g. deal reporting, post-acquisition consolidations).
Build and maintain onboarding and reference materials for M&A transactions using innoVISION.
Lead the creation of an M&A valuation masterclass that will be part of onboarding new team members during run-state.
Conduct onboarding sessions during go-live and during run-state.
Directly support M&A Finance, External Innovation Finance, and MedTech BD Finance, providing hypercare during go-live and during run-state.
Partner with Sr. leadership stakeholders across the Enterprise on additional business requirements that can be served efficiently through innoVISION (e.g. opening balance sheet, contingent consideration adjustments)
Pilot innoVISION using historical M&A opportunities and support parallel piloting of ongoing M&A opportunities. Document lessons learned and issues. Partner with stakeholders to resolve issues.
Prepare wireframes, design documents, and user experiences for M&A in innoVISION.
Support existing portfolio of Digital Finance solutions across IMBD and JJDC, including systems used in operations, analytics, and reporting across business development and venture capital.
Assist with longer term evolution of digital and technology solutions to support our BD and M&A finance needs (sector and corporate)