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Job Function
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences
Job Sub Function
Data Engineering
Job Category
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Job Description
Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Finance Manager, EPM Data Design Product Owner. The primary location for this role is New Brunswick, NJ. The role may also be based in other J&J site locations within the US or Puerto Rico. We will also consider candidates to work out of our offices in Beerse, Belgium; Ireland; Wokingham, UK; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; or Zug, Switzerland.
Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
US & Puerto Rico - Requisition Number: R-047065
Canada - Requisition Number: R-048077
Beerse, Belgium & Ireland - Requisition Number: R-048136
Wokingham, UK - Requisition Number: R-048137
Zug, Switzerland- Requisition Number: R-048141
Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
Overview
As a Senior Finance Manager EPM Data Design Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of finance data architecture across Johnson & Johnson’s global enterprise. This position demands a visionary leader who can align talent and resources to deliver innovative, scalable, and sustainable data solutions that empower financial planning, management reporting, and analytics. You will be responsible for translating complex business processes into robust data models, ensuring that every detail supports both immediate project needs and long-term organizational goals.
Strategic Responsibilities
Drive Enterprise Strategy: Lead the finance data design team with a clear focus on strategic objectives, ensuring that data models and solutions are not only technically sound but also aligned with the broader business vision and future growth. Provide guidance across all SigniFi workstreams to foster cohesive, scalable, and sustainable solution designs. Align Senior leaders on solutioning by making complex concepts simple and identify risks and communicate impacts and mitigations in a timely manner.
Talent Alignment: Cultivate and develop a high-performing team of business data architects, engineers, and analysts. Prioritize talent development and alignment, ensuring that the team’s skills and capabilities are leveraged to support Johnson & Johnson’s finance digitalization journey and enterprise transformation.
Cross-Functional Leadership: Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, across all SigniFi workstreams (Including Global Process Owners, Business Product Owners & Technical Product Owners) and leaders of connected systems to ensure that solutioning works End to End through our architecture. Through this ensure that there is alignment between actual and plan data to support high quality BVA reporting. Champion the adoption of next-generation technology solutions that address evolving business needs.
Data Design Excellence
Detail-Oriented Assessment: Oversee the creation and maintenance of business data models for all Anaplan models covering Commercial, IBP, Supply Chain and Enterprise Planning & Analytics. Lead data fit-gap evaluations for each deployment, working closely with technical partners to ensure data sources and profiles meet process requirements. Ensure that all documentation is complete and accurate.
Quality and Governance: Develop and memorialize Data Design Documents (DDD) to capture key decisions and provide reference for ongoing operations. Collaborate with Data Governance teams to enforce best practices and maintain high standards of data quality throughout all project phases.
Run State Support: Oversea the transition of deployed models to the run state organisations with full knowledge transfers and documentation in place. Act as a consultant to the run teams to helps support development of continuous improvement (CI) initiatives to enhance data validation, process efficiency, and deliver stable, high-quality outcomes
Major Responsibilities
- Lead a team of 10 business data architects, engineers, and analysts, including consultants to design and maintain business data models for Commercial, IBP, and Supply Chain Planning & Analytics within a multi-year enterprise transformation program.
- Conduct data fit-gap evaluations for each deployment, collaborating with technical partners to identify and profile data sources in line with process requirements.
- Provide strategic guidance across all SigniFi workstreams (including Global Process Owners, Business Product Owners, and Technical Product Owners) to ensure cohesive, sustainable, and scalable solution designs, leveraging the CIM foundation.
- Develop and maintain Data Design Documents (DDD) to memorialize key decisions and serve as reference materials for run state teams.
- Coordinate with the Data Validation team to drive data quality and analysis throughout project phases, including data dry runs, business simulations, integrated testing, and production validation.
- Collaborate with the Finance Data Governance team to oversee SigniFi CIM design in the Finance Data Hub Platform for all fit-for-purpose use cases.
- Ensure smooth transition of new data processes to run state owners, providing knowledge transfer and ongoing support post-deployment
Qualifications
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is required, Major in Finance or IT are preferred
- 8+ years experience with min 5 years in relational database management/data model/data warehouse experience is preferred
- SQL experience is required with strong technical systems background (e.g. Tableau, Alteryx, SAP Finance, BW, MDM)
- Experience crafting sophisticated technology solutions to support a large, complex business landscape is required
- Must have experience supervising direct reports in order to continue the development of talent pipeline of data, system combined with business process.
- Extensive experience with Financial Planning tools and technology is required
- The ability to effectively communicate complex technical ideas to individuals outside of the FS&T Program and Finance organization is required
- Experience working in a matrixed, multi-team delivery model is required
- Deep knowledge of organizational systems, models, and interdependencies needed to align the organization to the FS&T agenda is required
- Must be excellent at building positive relationships with peers and other senior-level stakeholders to support adoption of technology solutions and effective integration throughout the business
- Must be flexible and adaptable with the ability to thrive in ambiguous situations
- Must have a team-oriented demeanor and the ability to work collaboratively with and through others
- Experience detailing best practices and enforcing strong governance in a team is required
- A dedication and passion for continuous integration, improvement, and using automation to ensure stable deliverables is required
- Strong Project Management Skills or experience leading implementations is preferred
- This role can be in any J&J geographic location, but presence in New Brunswick, NJ, will be required on an ad hoc basis
- The role may require up to 25% domestic and/or international travel, based on employee’s home location
Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers . Internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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