GSF LEA Finance Senior Team Lead

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Accounting

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Description:

Global Services Finance Legal Entity Accounting (GSF LEA) at Johnson and Johnson Limited is recruiting for an Account to Report (ATR) Finance Senior Team Lead, located in Bangalore, India.

We are seeking a detailed and collaborative Senior Team Lead to manage our B2G (Business-to-Government) reconciliation activities, including inbound, outbound, and intercompany transactions. The candidate will bring proven experience in accounting, particularly within Legal Entity Accounting, and will partner across functions such as finance teams, business units, customer service, procurement, tax to ensure flawless, accurate, and compliant data.

Responsibilities:

• Lead all aspects of daily reconciliation activities, ensuring accuracy and completeness of data while ensuring compliance with internal policies, legal requirements, and accounting standards, meeting all corporate and regional deadlines.
• Collaborate with accounting, finance, and legal teams to resolve discrepancies and escalations.
• Maintain and improve reconciliation processes, implementing best practices and automation where applicable.
• Support Legal Entity Accounting activities, ensuring accurate allocation, reporting, and compliance.
• Prepare and review reconciliation reports, providing insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Provide training and mentorship to team members, fostering a culture of accuracy and continuous improvement.
• Stay updated on regulatory changes affecting B2G transactions and accounting standards.
• Key point of contact for Johnson & Johnson local markets and local authorities in relation to the reporting obligations
• Taking part in projects to participate in establishing new processes for simplification, standardization, and automation within an international environment.
• Coordinating the data & information flows between the Johnson & Johnson local teams, Global services accounting teams and Local Authorities
• Lead a team of up to 6 ATR Senior Finance Analysts/Finance Analysts
• Career grow conversations, personal development, motivation and feedback, compensation planning, team coaching.

Qualifications

Education:

• Finance Master Degree, Fully qualified accountant or an international qualified accountant equivalent, with a minimum of 5 years post qualified financial experience

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting processes, US and Local GAAP, financial controls and audit requirements
• Experience in tax reconciliation, tax compliance and general ledger reconciliations
• Proficiency in data analysis, financial data validation, and variance investigation
• Hand-on experience with SAP (S/4 Hana and other modules)
• Advanced MS Office knowledge (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, etc)
• Experience in automation tool creation (eg. Power BI, Power Automate, Alteryx or similar)
• Ability to interpret and reconcile large data sets from multiple sources
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and time management
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, meet deadlines and be able to thrive in a fast-paced working environment

Leadership Skills:

Results & Performance Driven:

• Takes personal responsibility for delivering results
• Eagerly accepts stretch goals

Sense of Urgency:

• Quickly assimilates and digests information
• Demonstrates a clear bias for action on priorities

Intellectual Curiosity:

• Works to keep updated on the industry trends
• Seeks opportunities to learn and grow professionally

Organization & Talent Development:

• Shows an appreciation for the talent and potential in others
• Accepts responsibility for and fails fast

Collaboration & Teaming:

• Builds strong, productive relationships
• Develops business and personal relationships with people from other areas of the organization
• Actively seeks feedback
• Listens effectively and remains open to other's ideas
• Contributes to teamwork across the organization

Other:

• Language: English and/or other languages highly preferred (e.g. German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean) but not required.
• Candidates may be asked to work shifts to align with global assignments in LATAM / EMEA / ASPAC

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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.

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