Senior Director, Applications, Finance, Orthopedics

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Raynham, MA +7

IT Senior Director, Finance Application role responsible for the strategy, delivery, and optimization of enterprise finance applications supporting global business operations. This role partners with Finance, IT, and business leadership to ensure finance platforms enable accurate financial reporting, strong internal controls, operational efficiency, and scalable growth. Key responsibilities include setting enterprise strategy for Finance Applications, leading global delivery and support of core finance systems (ERP, record-to-report, order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, planning and consolidation), partnering with Finance leadership, overseeing large-scale programs, ensuring financial controls and compliance with SOX, leading a global team, managing vendor relationships, and driving modernization and automation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Set and execute the enterprise strategy for Finance Applications, ensuring alignment with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and IT architecture standards.
  2. Lead global delivery, support, and continuous improvement of core finance systems (e.g., ERP, record‑to‑report, order‑to‑cash, procure‑to‑pay, planning and consolidation).
  3. Partner with Finance leadership to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions.
  4. Provide executive oversight of large‑scale programs, including system transformations, integrations, and separation‑related initiatives.
  5. Ensure strong financial controls, data integrity, and compliance with SOX and other regulatory requirements through application design and governance.

Skills

Required

  • IT leadership roles supporting enterprise finance systems
  • leading large, cross-functional programs and global teams
  • Strong partnership and communication skills
  • influence senior Finance and business leaders
  • financial controls
  • compliance
  • audit requirements (including SOX)

Nice to have

  • supporting business separation, carve-out, or major transformation initiatives
  • medical technology, life sciences, or similarly regulated industries
  • driving cloud migration
  • automation
  • advanced analytics within finance applications
  • vendor strategy
  • multi-million-dollar IT budgets
  • enterprise finance platforms (ERP and adjacent finance applications) across complex, regulated environments
  • Financial Accounting (e.g. CPA)

What the JD emphasized

  • regulatory requirements
  • SOX
  • financial controls
  • business separation
  • system modernization