Risk Management & Compliance Team Lead

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Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for some great opportunities for its Global Services (GS) in Bangalore, India which is well equipped with the latest technology and modern infrastructure. This is your chance to work with the best talent in a workforce that reflects the diverse markets Johnson & Johnson serves around the world, and an inclusive culture that values different perspectives and life experiences.

Reimagine the possibilities at Johnson and Johnson Global Finance! We live this motto every day by creating exciting business solutions for the world s largest and most broadly-based healthcare company.

As a member of our Global Finance team, you will have exclusive access to a network of financial professionals located in over 60 countries. This new network will help you build on your current skills and explore opportunities to grow your career in J&J. At J&J Global Finance, we value ideas for innovation and improvement and are committed to diversity and inclusion. Together we will reinvent business processes to become more effective, more efficient, and improve customer experience. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The Global Services Finance organization provides best-in-class, cost-effective financial services, and compliance support in a J&J way to our Operating Companies around the world.

Risk Management & Compliance (RM&C) is one of such initiative under Global Services Finance.

RM&C team is seeking a Risk Management & Compliance Team Lead who will have responsibility for fulfilment of the SOX and Compliance programs across J&J entities, training and advisory along with all Compliance related support to different sectors and performing walkthroughs, sampling, testing the effectiveness of control deployment, documentation of testing results, remediation support, monitoring, audit support, project support etc.

Key Responsibilities

1. Be compliant with applicable laws and regulations, and follow guidelines in the J&J Credo

2. Maintain Operational Excellence

• Deep expertise and knowledge of the Worldwide Procedures and compliance requirements for respective areas.
• Identify compliance risks and recommend solutions to remediate / prevent breach.
• Ensure strong internal controls are in place and maintain compliant environment across the Organisation.
• Responsible for performing Compliance Health Checks and other internal reviews to test the effectiveness of the control placement.
• Support timely closing & execution of financial periods as per closing calendar and in accordance with SLA commitments, fully observing Compliance, Internal Audit & SOX requirements.
• Accountable for supporting completeness, accuracy and validity of the actuals reported within process/entity scope.
• Work closely with all business process and IT team members to communicate compliance requirements, documentation standards, sign-offs and review processes.
• Provide trainings to all business process owners for any change/update in financial procedures.
• Support projects, business partnering with collaborators, assisting business process owners with adoption of J&J policies & procedures.
• Support in standard Compliance document requirements: Risk Control Matrix, Hand-off s, SOPs and submission of required SOX templates (system inventory templates, SOX questionnaires etc.).
• Performs control walkthrough, operational testing and discusses the findings with the process owners.
• Conduct compliance due diligence for transitions in-scope.
• Testing of preventive & detective UA/SOD Controls (e.g. granting, facilitating appropriateness & semi-annual reviews) across all ERP systems.
• Support Sectors during Corporate Financial Audits.
• Supervise and drive the Corrective Action Plan (CAP) process, to ensure audit(internal & external) recommendations and key control gaps per SOX testing are implemented and other internal control gaps are closed timely and effectively.

Be A Trusted Business Partner

• Implement global Strategy & Solutions in line with taxonomy.
• Support Process Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Operational Key Contacts (OKCs) to ensure cross sector, cross region, and cross process alignment, ensuring good documentation is maintained and consistency of a global approach

Create Game-Changing Innovation

• Generate ideas, fosters, and implements continuous improvement attitude, identifying and pursuing process efficiency opportunities.
• Manage operational improvements, generating ideas and implementing in line with global standards.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Education

• A minimum of a Bachelor s level degree or equivalent is required, preferably in accounting, finance, or related business subject area.
• ACA, CPA and/or other financial certifications is highly preferred.

Required

• At least 2 - 5 years of post qualification experience is required:
• Strong knowledge and understanding of accounting and financial processes (for Trading as well as Manufacturing business), shared services and related subject matter
• Understanding of internal controls, risk management, US GAAP accounting, financial systems, IT development and/or production support
• Clear understanding of SOX 404 requirements
• Understanding of audit procedures and auditing practices
• Experience in developing and managing audit programs desirable
• Experience in performing audits of financial processes and systems required, preferably in manufacturing/trading/service industry
• At least 1 year Management / Supervisory / team handling experience is preferred.
• Ability to frame clear & concise communication across all relevant collaborators.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with employees at all levels.
• Be open to new ideas, rapid change and embracing new technologies.
• Strong presentation, written and verbal communications skills
• Strong influencing and persuasion skills
• Should be a strong teammate
• Independent thinking and strong planning/prioritization are critical to success
• Should have passion for data analytics and insights gathering from same
• Proficiency in basic MS Office applications (Excel, Outlook, Power point, Word) required
• Solid understanding of SAP (or other ERPs) an advantage
• Willing to travel (as needed)

Preferred

• Experience in audit function in a multinational corporation or global audit agency.
• Experience in core operations(Accounting, Finance) with interest in audit & compliance
• Ability to handle ambiguity and fluid situations, demonstrating a pragmatic approach.
• Successfully manage several priorities, be very organized and work efficiently to tight deadlines.
• Solid US GAAP accounting knowledge.
• Digital/ intelligent automation capabilities.

Other

• Candidates may be asked to work shifts to align with global assignments in Americas / EMEA / Asia.
• Lead/Participate in other Regional/Global/Cross functional duties as assigned.
• Fluent English, other language skills desirable.

Key working relationships

• Business partners (commercial and functional teams)
• Business Unit Finance, Shared service Finance teams, Global services, COE team
• Regional / Global partners

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.