Senior Financial Analyst, DPDS Discovery

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Finance Business Partners

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Discovery, Product Development and Supply (DPDS) Senior Financial Analyst. The candidate can work in our Spring House, PA or Titusville, NJ locations and will be required to travel to Spring House, PA, regularly.

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. 

Responsibilities:

The DPDS Discovery Senior Financial Analyst will provide financial and strategic leadership for the PSTS organization. Key activities for this position include, but are not limited to:

• 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.

Qualifications:

• Required

  • 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 prob