Accountant 1 General Accounting

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Paranaque, National Capital Region, Philippines

This role is for an Accountant 1 General Accounting at Johnson & Johnson, focusing on executing accounting operations, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, maintaining operational excellence, and supporting business partners. Responsibilities include sales and purchase order creation, reconciliation, monitoring aging, balance sheet reconciliation, and supporting audits. The role also involves training new team members and contributing to process improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Responsible for executing accounting and daily operations for GSF Accounting process area for simple and medium complex MRCs.
  2. Timely closing & execution of financial periods as per the closing calendar and in accordance with SLA commitments, fully observing Compliance, Internal Audit & SOX requirements.
  3. Accountable for completeness, accuracy, and validity of the actuals reported within process/entity scope.
  4. Regular focus on Balance Sheet reconciliations to minimize open items.
  5. On-the-job training for new team members / BPO partners.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related business discipline
  • Basic skill in using standard Microsoft tools including MS Teams
  • Effective communication skills
  • Remarkable academic track record and/or achievement
  • Top 10% of their school batch
  • Open to new ideas and can develop effective ways of working
  • Record of active participation in extracurricular activities. Taken lead role in Organizations/Clubs

Nice to have

  • audit experience
  • SAP tool experience

What the JD emphasized

  • Compliance
  • Internal Audit & SOX requirements
  • Balance Sheet reconciliations
  • worldwide policies and procedures
  • internal controls