Deployment Lead Analyst, IMFT

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:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job 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 insightful partner that accelerates decision-making, optimizes resources, and fuels innovation. Our focus is on identifying what matters most, prioritizing initiatives with real impact, sequencing change strategically, and bringing subject area to our transformation efforts.

As a member of IMFT, you’ll be at the heart of delivering an integrated, multi-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, working with the Finance Deployment Manager

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.
• Handle data quality, master data and planning data requirements.
• Define and supervise deployment KPIs, business benefits and adoption metrics.
• Lead organizational change, partner engagement and training.
• Manage deployment roadmap, project risks, dependencies, issues and senior collaborator governance.
• See 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 Required:

• Minimum of 8+ years professional related experience required
• MBA (Finance) /CA/ ICWA is preferred
• At least 2 years 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 Partner Management and Global deployment experience
• Working experience in Jira/X ray tool is needed.
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• Knowledge and experience working with SAP S/4 HANA Finance is a must.
• Solid understanding of Overall Finance Process is required.
• Passionate to develop expertise in sophisticated financial topics
• Agile attitude
• Good communication skills and ability to clearly articulate complex issues
• Great teammate and collaborative working style

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Budgeting, Budget Management, Coaching, Communication, Expense Controls, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Disclosures, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Financial Statement Analysis, Leverages Information, Problem Solving, Relationship Building, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management