Hybrid Finance Manager – External Innovation

at Johnson & Johnson

• Job title: Finance Manager – External Innovation
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $102,000 - $177,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Tableau
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Titusville, United States

About the role

• Finance Manager responsible for digital transformation in finance for Innovative Medicine at Johnson & Johnson. Leading M&A deal analysis and supporting business development initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the digital transformation of our innoVISION Valuation Platform to support M&A deal analysis, ensuring successful go-live and run-state
• 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)

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
• Familiarity with planning tools like IBM Planning Analytics or Anaplan, is preferred
• Strong experience in Financial Modeling using advanced Microsoft Excel skills (i.e. Pivot Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUP functions) is required
• Prior experience working in a Finance role supporting Medicines or Medical Technology, Commercial or Research organization in healthcare industry, is highly preferred
• 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

Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer
• Commitment to inclusive interview process
• Support for individuals with disabilities