Senior Financial Analyst – Global HR

Role Summary

Senior Financial Analyst – Global HR based in New Brunswick, NJ. Provides day-to-day financial support and leads key initiatives, partnering closely with the Global HR Leadership team to drive business planning and performance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with senior HR leadership and Finance Business Partners to prepare and present forecast updates and quarterly result packages, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of all key deliverables
• Lead the corporate financial close process and latest thinking exercises – framing key drivers and business outcomes to corporate leadership
• Manage functional risks & opportunities – challenging key stakeholders when necessary – influencing senior HR leadership decision making to deliver on a compliant and successful business plan
• Collaborate on the Global HR target setting and long-range financial plan process
• Lead corporate SigniFi adoption across HR partnering with regional COEs, project team, and business partners across multiple J&J organizations
• Collaborate with HR FFL to assist with the Global HR benchmarking exercise to externally measure functional resource deployment, investment, and key cost categories to drive functional trade-off decisions

Qualifications

• Required: A bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Accounting or Finance
• Required: A minimum of 3 years of finance or accounting experience
• Preferred: CPA, CMA and/or MBA
• Required: Extensive knowledge of finance and accounting processes
• Preferred: Data visualization software experience
• Preferred: Experience with implementing and driving global processes and results
• Preferred: Executive framing experience
• Required: Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUPs, etc.)
• Required: Ability to partner with associates at all levels of the organization
• Required: Strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, and influencing skills
• Preferred: Experience with ERP systems such as SAP or TM1
• Required: This position is located in New Brunswick, NJ, and may require up to 10% local travel

Skills

• Strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, and influencing abilities
• Ability to partner with stakeholders across all levels of the organization
• Proficiency in data visualization tools and analytics
• ERP system familiarity (e.g., SAP, TM1) is advantageous

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (or closely related field)

Additional Requirements

• Up to 10% local travel may be required