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**Job Function: **
Finance
**Job Sub Function: **
Risk Management
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for an Innovative Medicine Transformation IT Compliance Senior Manager (Transcend Program) and the role will be based in Titusville, NJ.
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 https://www.jnj.com/
Position Overview
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.
The program will simplify the Pharm ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes in order to have a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharm business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.
The IM IT Compliance Senior Manager, (IM TRANSCEND) is accountable for defining and driving the end-to-end IT and compliance strategy for the IM TRANSCEND program, a multi-year, multi-release SAP S/4HANA transformation across the Innovative Medicines supply chain.
This role ensures a cohesive and integrated compliance approach across ITGC, ICFR, application controls, and data integrity, enabling consistent risk management from solution design through deployment and audit.
Acting as the senior IT compliance partner to program, the role shapes compliance requirements early in design and solution discussions to influence architecture, control design, and delivery outcomes.
The role ensures strong alignment between IT and Finance compliance perspectives, coordinating closely with ICFR compliance leadership to maintain a holistic, end-to-end control framework.
Reporting to the Director, this position provides strategic direction, oversight, and escalation across releases, while guiding and overseeing program-level compliance execution through embedded managers and teams.
**Responsibilities **
- Define and own the overall IT and compliance strategy for the IM TRANSCEND program, ensuring alignment with program ICFR, SOX, and ITGC frameworks.
- Establish an integrated, end-to-end risk and control model that aligns ITGC, application controls with ICFR requirements
- Provide senior-level IT compliance leadership across all IM TRANSCEND releases, ensuring consistency of approach across geographies, waves, and solution components.
- Act as a strategic compliance advisor to program leadership, IT and JJT stakeholders, participating in pre-design, solution, and architecture discussions to shape compliant outcomes.
- Ensure effective coordination and alignment with ISRM, User Access Management, and IT Security teams on access governance, segregation of duties, and identity-related risks.
- Oversee and guide the design principles for SAP configurations, interfaces, WRICEF objects, workflows, and system-enabled controls from an IT compliance perspective
- Ensure that ITGC and ICFR risks are assessed holistically, with clear ownership, traceability, and mitigation across integrated business processes and technologies.
- Provide direction and oversight to program IT compliance managers and resources, ensuring effective execution of risk assessments, control design, testing strategies, and remediation activities.
- Partner closely with the Senior Manager / leadership responsible for ICFR compliance to ensure a cohesive and non-duplicative compliance approach across the program
- Define expectations for UAT, IT SOX testing, and control validation strategies at the program level, ensuring alignment with audit and regulatory expectations.
- Serve as the senior point of escalation and engagement for Internal and External Audit on ITGC, technology, and IT compliance topics for IM TRANSCEND.
- Monitor program-level compliance risks, trends, and dependencies, proactively identifying systemic issues and driving resolution to protect program outcomes and audit readiness.
Qualifications
- Required Minimum Education of University degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance Computer science or related fields.
- Previous experience in IT Compliance roles within a significant SAP implementation is highly recommended.
- 8-10+ years’ experience
- Proven experience defining IT compliance strategy for complex multi release ERP transformation programs
- Working knowledge of SOX 404 as it applies to IT systems and ERP platforms
- Experience engaging at a senior level with program leadership, IT, Finance ISRM etc. to influence design, architecture and control decisions.
- Ability to proactively identify and mitigate IT /ERP risks.
- Solid understanding of SAP S/4HANA environments
- Demonstrated capability to lead and oversee compliance execution, providing direction, challenge and escalation while remaining hands-on at strategical level.
- Experience working in a complex, multi-ERP / system environment. Experience with SAP S4 Hana preferred.
- People management skills and ability to collaborate in a highly matrixed environment is required.
Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Agility Jumps, Budget Management, Compliance Frameworks, Compliance Management, Fact-Based Decision Making, Financial Analysis, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Internal Controls, Organizing, Predictive Modeling, Process Improvements, Regulatory Environment, Risk Assessments, Risk Management, Risk Measurement, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$122,000-$212,750
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.