Controlling & Inventory – Senior Financial Analyst, IMFT Technology & Data Solutions

About

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.

IMFT is the transformation program within Innovative Medicine Finance, dedicated to enabling Finance and its business partners to deliver superior value and sustainable competitive advantage for our organization, partners, and patients. We are advancing Finance with digital competencies and tools to become an insight‑driven partner that accelerates decision‑making, optimizes resources, and sparks innovation.

Role Overview

As a Controlling & Inventory – Senior Financial Analyst, IMFT Technology & Data Solutions, you will play a pivotal role in a global business transformation initiative aimed at modernizing and harmonizing core finance operations—specifically within the areas of Controlling and Inventory. You will collaborate with Global Process Owners, Technical Product Owners, System Integrators and other Transformational Programs to capture business requirements, support process design, and ensure successful build, testing, and deployment of Controlling and Inventory processes.

Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in representing the finance function in the cross functional discussions relating to Controlling & Inventory (in particular MAKE and R&D)
• Support the Controlling & Inventory Finance Lead with the Global Finance Transformation Initiative including all aspects of an ERP/S4Hana design, build & deployment; specifically for Controlling & Inventory Processes.
• Collaborate with IMFT & IM Transcend Global Process Owners & functional teams to capture and define design requirements for Controlling & Inventory Processes.
• In collaboration with the Controlling & Inventory Finance Lead, support in managing the interdependencies with other transformational programs such as Signifi/Transact in the Controlling & Inventory areas.
• In collaboration with the Technical Product Owners (TPO) and System Integrator ensure the Global Template is designed & built to meet the business requirements utilizing the latest technology capabilities.

Process Design

• Collaborate with Global Process Owners to understand the business requirements & capture these requirements for inclusion in the design process.
• Collaborate with the Finance Technical Process Owners (TPO) & System Integrator team in designing future Controlling & Inventory Processes
• Document future design as part of Global Template build

Build

• Support TPO & System Integrator Teams in building the proposed design in S4/Hana
• Actively participate in Build Demos, review & provide feedback
• Take leading role in ensuring business requirements are being met in the build

Data Validation & Testing

• Collaborate closely with the Master Data team to ensure the data set‑up is correct for Controlling & Inventory Processes.
• Ensure the processes built in the development system achieve the business requirements and provide feedback to TPO’s & System Integrator Team as required
• Support the deployment team during the testing cycles as required

Hypercare

• Support the deployment team during Hypercare as required

Qualifications

Required Minimum Education

• University degree in Finance or Economics

Required Experience

• 5+ years of related experience

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience with Costing, Inventory & Plant Accounting in a Supply Chain or R&D role would be considered a great asset for this role
• Experience with process development and improvement
• Strong analytic skills and ability to balance big picture with attention to detail
• Passionate to develop expertise in complex financial topics
• Agile mindset
• Strong communication skills and ability to clearly articulate complex issues
• Team player and collaborative working style
• Experience with working in global / virtual environments is a plus.
• Proven ability to operate in a dynamic, fast‑paced, and frequently changing environment
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder Management, including ability to influence and challenge
• Passion for driving change and ability to inspire business adoption of new processes and technology

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Expert knowledge of SAP ERP platform
• Project management experience is a plus
• Knowledge of digital tools (PowerQuery, PowerBI, …) is a plus

Compensation

• Anticipated base pay range for this position in Ireland: 52,400 – 94,100 EUR

Benefits

• Annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, based on employee and company performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions
• Vacation days
• Parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks
• Bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave
• Well‑being reimbursement and programs for financial, physical and mental health
• Service anniversary and recognition awards
• Participation in several insurance plans (subject to plan terms; eligible dependents may also participate)

Required Skills

• Analytics
• Cost Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Teamwork

Preferred Skills

• Budgeting
• Business Behavior
• Data Analysis
• Detail‑Oriented
• Financial Analysis
• Learning Agility
• Microsoft Office
• Process Optimization
• Process Oriented
• Relationship Building
• Service Excellence