IM Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend)

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 jnj.com As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world.  We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual.  At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. Job Function: Finance Job Sub Function: Finance Business Partners Job Category: Professional All Job Posting Locations: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America Job Description: IM Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend) Possible locations: Beerse, Belgium; Leiden, Netherlands; Zug, Switzerland; Titusville/ New Brunswick, United States of America Contract: full-time, permanent THE OPPORTUNITY Innovative Medicine Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational Supply chain processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform (S4 Hana) for growth and efficiency gains. How YOU can help: The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have: The Finance Compliance Manager is fully embedded in the IM Transcend program and serves as the integrated compliance and risk partner across the end-to-end transformation lifecycle. The role safeguards successful program delivery by establishing and executing a holistic, risk-based compliance strategy across design, build, test, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state. It proactively identifies, assesses, monitors and mitigates financial, business process, technology and cross-program compliance risks; drives the program de-risking approach through stage gates, milestone reviews and transparent escalation; and provides leadership with clear risk insight to support informed go/no-go decisions. The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have: Own and execute the end-to-end IM Transcend compliance strategy, framework, roadmap and integrated plan across design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state.  Operate as a fully embedded member of the program, partnering with Program Leadership, PMO, value streams, functional teams and deployment leads to embed compliance requirements into program governance, decisions, plans and delivery milestones.  Lead the program de-risking approach by proactively identifying, assessing, prioritizing and monitoring end-to-end compliance risks, dependencies and control impacts across processes, data, technology, interfaces and deployments.  Define and govern risk appetite, mitigation actions, ownership, escalation paths and stage-gate criteria; provide timely risk insight and recommendations to support leadership go/no-go and release-readiness decisions.  Establish and maintain the integrated compliance package and traceability across the process taxonomy, risks, controls, reports, interfaces, requirements, test evidence and run-state documentation.  Drive a risk-based SOX and finance compliance testing strategy, ensuring control requirements are designed into test scenarios, execution evidence is complete and deficiencies are remediated before release.  Lead engagement with Global Audit & Assurance and external auditors, coordinating scope, milestone-based reviews, walkthroughs, evidence and remediation to sustain audit readiness throughout the program lifecycle.  Provide concise, decision-oriented reporting to senior leadership on risk exposure, mitigation status,