[Hiring] Deployment Senior Analyst @Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Role Description

IMFT is the transformation organization within Innovative Medicine Finance, dedicated to enabling Finance and its business partners to deliver superior value and sustainable competitive advantage for our organization, partners, and patients.

We are advancing Finance with digital competencies and tools to become an insight-driven partner that accelerates decision-making, optimizes resources, and sparks innovation. Our focus is on identifying what matters most, prioritizing initiatives with real impact, sequencing change strategically, and bringing discipline to our transformation efforts.

As a member of IMFT, you’ll be at the heart of delivering an integrated, cross-functional transformation that optimizes resources, investment allocation, and value creation across the organization.

The Deployment Lead Analyst will be part of the Innovative Medicines Finance Deployment Team, reporting to the Finance Deployment Manager/Deployment Lead Analyst.

Role Purpose

• Lead global deployment of Integrated Business Planning capabilities, including SAP IBP, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), across business units and markets.
• Drive standardized planning processes, integrated data architecture, analytics, and business adoption.

General Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end deployment of IBP, BDC and SAC solutions across regions/business units.
• Drive standardization of IBP/S&OP processes covering demand, supply, inventory, capacity and financial planning.
• Partner with business, IT, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial and Data teams to define requirements and deployment strategy.
• Lead SAP IBP solution design, integration and deployment readiness.
• Establish BDC data foundations, including data integration, harmonization, governance and availability for planning and analytics.
• Lead the test script preparations, run the testing for BST and coordinate UAT.
• Ensure integration between SAP S/4HANA, IBP, BDC, SAC and other enterprise systems.
• Manage data quality, master data and planning data requirements.
• Define and track deployment KPIs, business benefits and adoption metrics.
• Lead change management, stakeholder engagement and training.
• Manage deployment roadmap, project risks, dependencies, issues and senior stakeholder governance.
• Identify opportunities for automation, analytics and continuous improvement after deployment.
• Ensure global standards are maintained while addressing legitimate local business requirements.
• Provide Credo based leadership to foster an environment of inclusiveness and continued career and personal development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6+ years professional related experience required.
• MBA (Finance) / CA / ICWA is preferred.
• At least 1 year of experience in SAP Analytical cloud.
• Experience in any other planning tool is an added advantage.
• Exposure to SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) needed.
• SAP S/4HANA integration.
• Supply Chain Planning, Data & Analytics, Business Process Transformation.
• Global Stakeholder Management and Global deployment experience.
• Working experience in Jira/X ray tool is needed.
• Knowledge and experience working with SAP S/4 HANA Finance is a must.
• Strong knowledge of Overall Finance Process is required.
• Passionate to develop expertise in complex financial topics.
• Agile mindset.
• Strong communication skills and ability to clearly articulate complex issues.
• Team player and collaborative working style.

Required Skills

• Accelerating
• Budgeting
• Budget Management
• Business Behavior
• Coaching
• Confidentiality
• Data Analysis
• Detail-Oriented
• Expense Controls
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Disclosures
• Financial Forecasting
• Financial Modeling
• Financial Reports
• Financial Risk Management (FRM)
• Learning Agility
• Leverages Information
• Microsoft Office
• Problem Solving
• Process Optimization
• Process Oriented
• Relationship Building
• Service Excellence
• Stakeholder Management
• Teamwork