Senior Financial Analyst, DPDS Discovery
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/ Position Overview The Senior Financial Analyst will support Innovative Medicine Research & Development Finance. This SFA will be responsible for providing financial leadership to the Preclinical Sciences and Translational Safety (PSTS) organization and will be an integral member of the Innovative Medicine DPDS Discovery Finance team. DPDS Discovery supports cross-Therapeutic Area discovery research. This is an excellent opportunity to partner with senior business leaders on strategy and execution, as DPDS strengthens global capabilities to build a world class discovery engine. The SFA will help deliver on budget commitments, drive strategic business decisions, and provide recommendations on investment decisions.
Requirements
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree, preferably in Accounting or Finance.
- A minimum of 2 years of finance or related business experience.
- Proven financial and analytical skills, being result and performance driven.
- Demonstrates business acumen and the ability to analyze complex financial problems, identify innovative solutions, and explain insights to a non-finance audience in an easy-to-understand way.
- Trusted business partner with strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, implement operational improvements, work independently, and handle several tasks simultaneously.
- Ability to think creatively and work in a team environment.
- Excellent analytical (MS Excel) and presentation (PowerPoint) skills with an ability to quickly extract data from multiple J&J ERP systems.
- The role will be located in Spring House, PA or Titusville, NJ and will be required to travel to Spring House, PA regularly, and may require up to 10% of travel.
Nice To Haves
- A Master’s degree, MBA and/or CPA, CMA.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience with advanced data analytic and visualization tools, preferably Power BI, Tableau, and Alteryx.
Responsibilities
- Finance representative on the PSTS Leadership Team, where candidate is expected to demonstrate strategic thinking and challenge assumptions relative to key business initiatives and the prioritization and planning of R&D investments.
- Proactively partner with the PSTS leadership to develop financial forecasts, support decision making, gain insights into financial drivers and identify potential opportunities and risks related to functional spending
- Lead planning (JU & LRFP, NU, BP), latest thinking and actual cycles budget update cycles for functional OPEX expenses (~$300MM) and headcount (~600 FTEs).
- Responsible for the consolidation, framing and communication of strategy, forecast and financial results to PSTS and Finance leadership.
- Accuracy and compliance of quarterly accounting close cycles.
- The ability to educate business partners on financial issues and concepts will be required.
- Support ad hoc projects, applying financial analyses, to provide recommendations for opportunities to create new value for business partners.
- Identify and/or participate in the implementation of operational improvements / standardization of activities.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
- Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
- Company’s long-term incentive program.
- Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
- Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
- Caregiver Leave – 10 days
- Volunteer Leave – 4 days
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
