Senior Manager - GS Finance Account to Report

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Accounting

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Mumbai, India

Job Description:

Senior Manager - GS Finance Account to Report

Location: Mumbai, India

At Johnson & Johnson, the largest healthcare company in the world, we come together with one purpose: to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

Diversity & Inclusion are critical to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion or any other trait, you are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world. When You Join Johnson & Johnson, Your Next Move Could Mean Our Next Breakthrough.

The Senior Manager - GS Finance Account to Report (A2R) is responsible for leading, handling and measuring the performance of end-to-end service delivery in the A2R process areas while involvement in driving process standardization and efficiency in the work area is imperative.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of balanced, end-to-end accounting service for an A2R Process stream, support solutions across people, process, and technology to ensure seamless integration and scalability.
• Establish and maintain strategic and operational relationships with business partners to champion collaboration, align priorities, and deliver measurable business value.
• Responsible for day-to-day departmental operations, including work allocation, scheduling, timeline management, and resource planning to meet service levels.
• Lead full-cycle people responsibilities: recruiting, onboarding, performance management, coaching, and disciplinary actions.
• Maintain a coordinated interaction model with other process managers and Cluster Finance Managers to ensure timely, accurate operating and financial reporting for internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive month-end, quarterly-end and year-end close activities, ensuring processes remain compliant with quality, statutory, regulatory, and SOX requirements.
• Review, strengthen, and implement accounting practices and controls to maintain a robust compliance environment and minimize financial risk.
• Lead the Statutory Accounts finalization and Audit for the entity as a whole including co-ordination with auditors, sector finance teams, consultants, etc.
• Support auditors and legal authorities with the execution of required activities.
• Lead budgeting and accounting activities for common costs and corporate functions.
• Develop deep, process-centric expertise for owned processes and lead continuous improvement and automation initiatives to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Collaborate with Global Process Owners (GPO) to standardize and harmonize processes globally.

• Lead and develop large high-performing team of direct and indirect reports.

• Provide strategic direction to the team: cultivate technical expertise and a solutions-oriented culture, empower team members, hold them accountable for financial literacy, and drive process automation and continuous improvement.

 Other Duties:

• Supports ad hoc requests / projects
• Supports continuous improvement activities
• Assists with training fellow team members
• Participates in training to increase knowledge & skill
• Perform performance management activities
• Ensure policies and procedures are followed

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant, ICWA, or similar qualification
• 15+ years of professional experience
• Strong accounting fundamentals, both US GAAP and Local GAAP and J&J policies and procedures (e.g. WWP & ICG, SOX 404)
• Strong business acumen, communication and connection skills, able to link business changes to process adaption.
• Familiarity with SAP and/or ERP system working framework and J&J financial tools.
• People Management Experience
• Able to read, write and speak English fluently.
• Desired: Multi- Legal Entity structure experience; LEAN Six Sigma, Finance Shared Services, Business, Global and International working experience

Internal only

If you want to apply to this position, please consider the following information from our Global Job Posting Policy

• The employee has spent at least 18 months in their current position, and
• The employee is in good standing.
• Manager Notification - An employee may apply for a position without advising their manager.  However, if the employee is encouraged to interview for a position, then, to the extent that this is consistent with local law or practice, they are required to advise their manager prior to the interview. This notification is encouraged to promote development discussions between the manager and the employee.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Accounting, Analytical Reasoning, Budgeting, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Management, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Financial Trends, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Organizing, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Team Management, Technical Credibility, Treasury Management