Lead Finance Analyst Inventory, Imft

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

This role is for a Lead Finance Analyst Inventory within the IMFT program at Johnson & Johnson. The program focuses on advancing finance with digital competencies and tools to become an insight-driven partner that accelerates decision-making, optimizes resources, and sparks innovation. The analyst will support the Senior Finance Manager in reshaping the finance function, partnering with process owners, Supply Chain Finance, and technology teams to capture requirements, design processes, and drive testing and deployment readiness. Key responsibilities include process mapping, requirements capture, future-state design support, controls and compliance definition, data and reporting requirements, and UAT coordination for inventory processes within the TIME target operating model.

What you'd actually do

  1. Process Mapping & Requirements Capture (Inventory): Partner with inventory close and reporting process owners to document current-state processes, pain points and controls; capture business and data requirements and translate them into clear user stories / design inputs to support the TIME target operating model within IMFT.
  2. Future-State Design Support & Decision Material: Support design workshops for inventory processes (including valuation- and reserve-related touchpoints) by preparing analyses, documenting options/trade-offs, and creating decision-ready materials; ensure alignment across Supply Chain Finance, IM Principal Operations and Technology on agreed process outcomes.
  3. Controls & Compliance by Design: Work with control owners to define and document inventory control requirements for TIME (process controls, evidence, roles & responsibilities); support control walkthroughs, risk/issue logging, and remediation planning to ensure the future process is audit-ready.
  4. Data, Reporting & Reconciliation Requirements: Define inventory data and reporting needs for the TIME solution (e.g., key reports, dimensions, interfaces, reconciliation points) and support data quality discussions; help establish clear ownership, handoffs and monitoring expectations between Finance, Supply Chain and Technology.
  5. Testing (UAT) & Defect Management: Coordinate UAT activities for inventory process, triage defects with Technology and process owners, and track resolution to ensure a stable, business-ready TIME release.

Skills

Required

  • University/bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting or Economics
  • Experience in finance roles, especially within supply chain or principal operations

What the JD emphasized

  • digital competencies
  • insight-driven partner
  • optimize resources
  • accelerate decision-making
  • spark innovation
  • prioritize initiatives
  • sequence change strategically
  • discipline to transformation efforts
  • integrated, cross-functional transformation
  • optimize resources
  • investment allocation
  • value creation
  • capture requirements
  • translate them into process and system design
  • drive disciplined testing and deployment readiness
  • capture requirements
  • align on future-state design decisions
  • validate solutions
  • translate business needs into user stories
  • test cases and acceptance criteria
  • support UAT and defect triage
  • clarify process handoffs
  • data flows
  • operational constraints
  • embed compliance requirements
  • document current-state processes
  • pain points and controls
  • capture business and data requirements
  • translate them into clear user stories / design inputs
  • support design workshops
  • documenting options/trade-offs
  • creating decision-ready materials
  • ensure alignment
  • define and document inventory control requirements
  • process controls
  • evidence
  • roles & responsibilities
  • support control walkthroughs
  • risk/issue logging
  • remediation planning
  • ensure the future process is audit-ready
  • Define inventory data and reporting needs
  • key reports
  • dimensions
  • interfaces
  • reconciliation points
  • support data quality discussions
  • help establish clear ownership
  • handoffs and monitoring expectations
  • Coordinate UAT activities
  • triage defects
  • track resolution
  • ensure a stable, business-ready TIME release