Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Looking for Finance Manager Clinical Forecasting at Spring House, PA, United States Full Time

Job Description

Janssen Research & Development, a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Finance Manager, supporting Clinical Forecasting. This position may be located at any J&J Pharma R&D campus: Beerse, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands, Titusville or Raritan, NJ, or Spring House, PA.
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The Finance Manager -Clinical Forecasting will be responsible for supervising a team of direct reports across multiple therapeutic areas, providing portfolio oversight, driving strategic decision making and owning the accountability of day-to-day operations for the Clinical Forecasting Specialist (CFS) role. The role will take a leadership role in defining the strategy of the CFS group, inclusive of creating efficiency through process and technology improvements, aligning, and communicating roles and responsibilities, and managing trial allocation and volume for the team. The position will also lead portfolio review meetings with Global Operational Heads and Finance partners, drive consistency in the cross-TA support model, provide managerial oversight of goal and objective setting and development plans for internal direct reports and lead training activities for the CFS team while promoting a cohesive and collaborative team environment which celebrates diversity of thought. The manager – Clinical Forecasting will report to the R&D Project Planning Lead – CFS who is responsible for cross-TA portfolio oversight of the department.
The Finance Manager – Clinical Forecasting will also be responsible to work directly on trial teams, driving cross-functional discussions to translate the functional needs for successfully operating a clinical trial into the clinical development operations Out-of-Pocket (OOP) forecast. This is accomplished by proactively partnering with the clinical functions to provide trial cost scenario planning, managing all aspects of OOP updates including those for Business Plan, Long Range Financial Plan, and Continuous Forecast Cycles and ensuring the accuracy and compliance of monthly and quarterly forecasting and closing cycles. For the closing cycles, the manager will support the functions on budget vs actuals analysis to identify required accruals, reclasses, and advanced payments to align to the budgetary forecast target within that quarter for their assigned trials, as well as deliver commentary to their respective partners. Additionally, the role will support the Program Coordinators, Program Management Team (PMT), and clinical functions by completing a variety of operational activities including functional detailed forecasting of work deliverables, drivers, name assignments, algorithm review, reason codes, and associated reporting. The role will provide day-to-day operational support & maintenance of accurate project, trial and country level study planning with associated reporting and function specific process activities.
Primary Duties:

• Line management of CFS roles managing specific TAs, Provide day-to-day guidance to CFS direct reports regarding planning processes, tools and business rules as well as talent/performance development responsibilities associated with departmental & global HR People Management processes.
• Provide talent development leadership to direct reports including informal coaching & feedback, formal stakeholder feedback, goals & objectives setting, and performance development.
• Building and maintaining relationships with management level cross-functional counterparts including but not limited to Portfolio Development Operations, TA and RDO finance, Data Management, Procurement and numerous other functions requiring cross-functional partnership
• Portfolio level oversight and responsibility to drive day-to-day operations of CFS team (Out of Pocket support) for assigned therapeutic areas and programs
• Leads initiatives to continuously improve technology, analytical methodologies and communication tools in support of optimal financial planning and execution of clinical trial spend
• Leading validation of drivers, reconciling and maintaining data accuracy for Planisware and UCT systems as well as providing insightful decision support utilizing reporting platforms (e.g. Tableau, Spotfire, UCT, Viz Café).
• Providing ongoing support in data management, analytics and reporting related to forecasting process, as well as identifying opportunities to expand the use of data analytics to drive efficiency and consistency across JRD.
• Tracking and reporting of Planned Forecast versus Actuals across the TA, program and the individual studies, and highlighting gaps in budget vs actuals (BVA) to business partners to address forecasting accuracy in support of quarter close activities.
• Providing commentary for the JU/LRFP, NU and FBP Budget versus Budget (BvB) and quarter close Budget versus Actuals (BvA) for financial applications and continuous forecasting.
• Leads functional review meetings on a monthly basis to align the continuous forecast to the actual plan.
• Supports the function and governance processes by providing multiple forecasting scenarios.
• Supports budget gap analysis to align the continuous forecast to the actual plan.
• Involvement in forecasting issue resolution activities.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required or 5 years equivalent work experience.
• Five (5) years of work experience with three years (3) in the research and development environment (pharmaceutical, biotech, CRO, other industries accepted) is required.
• Strong written, verbal and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of planning process/tools and/or financial aspects of conducting clinical trials.
• Strong operational and analytical skills with knowledge of MS office tools with a proficiency and focus in Excel.
• Excellent time management, priority setting and communication skills
• Must work with great accuracy, be customer and service focused, and able to support conflict resolution.
• Planisware, Visualization Tools (ex. Tableau), CTMS and other web based interfaces is preferred.
• At least five years of financial analytics experience is preferred.

Other:

• Position may be located at any J&J Pharma R&D campus: Beerse, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands, Titusville or Raritan, NJ, or Spring House, PA.
• Travel as required to support project teams at multiple site locations, including participation in regional planning meetings when applicable.
• 5% travel may be required.

At Johnson & Johnson, we’re on a mission to change the trajectory of health for humanity. That starts by creating the world’s healthiest workforce. Through cutting-edge programs and policies, we empower the physical, mental, emotional, and financial health of our employees and the ones they love. As such, candidates offered employment must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or secure an approved accommodation prior to the commencement of employment to support the well-being of our employees, their families and the communities in which we live and work.
For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.

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.

Primary Location
United States-Pennsylvania-Spring House-Welsh & McKean Roads
Other Locations
North America-United States-New Jersey-Raritan, Europe/Middle East/Africa-Belgium, United States-New Jersey-Titusville, Europe/Middle East/Africa-Netherlands
Organization
Janssen Research & Development, LLC (6084)
Job Function
Finance
Requisition ID
2206020196W