Johnson & Johnson is a leader in healthcare innovation, dedicated to improving health for humanity. The Senior Finance Manager, External Innovation will support the Innovative Medicine Business Development team by providing financial leadership for business development deals, optimizing capital allocation, and developing financial analyses for licensing and acquisitions.
Responsibilities
- Support external business development opportunities, understand and challenge the business case as well as ensuring transparency in the valuation assessments
- Provide financial leadership to optimize capital allocation, support portfolio investment and prioritization, increase business efficiency and effectiveness, and improve cash flow for the organization
- Developing financial analyses/valuations for licensing, acquisitions and externalization opportunities by liaising with various stakeholders to prepare a financial valuation model (discounted cash flow, (e)NPV and (e)IRR
- Developing and negotiating deal terms that mitigate risks and ensure value creation for J&J
- Assessing financial viability of the licensing deals supported
- Summarizing and presenting deals to Senior Management and Innovative Medicine Operating Committee
- Ensure compliance and adherence to Corporate Accounting Procedures and Approval Guidelines
- Working with other Finance expert stakeholders on deals (tax, treasury, supply chain, R&D) and assisting with M&A transactions lead by Corporate M&A
- Develop valuation models and perform complex financial scenario analyses
- Present complex financial analyses in a fully transparent way to support informed and value creating decision making
- Manage multiple ongoing priorities and work independently as a financial and business advisor
Skills
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required, preferably with a major in Finance, Economics, Data Analytics or Accounting
- Strong experience in Financial Modeling using advanced Microsoft Excel skills (i.e. Pivot Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUP functions) is required
- A minimum of 7 years of experience with finance or accounting is required
- Demonstrated track record of independently managing project timelines and deliverables is required
- Ability to be flexible with time of working hours required, given nature of the work, is very crucial for this role and is required
- Strong communications, framing presentation skills, along with solid interpersonal, negotiating and ability to influence senior business leaders is required
- An additional degree or advanced certifications such as a Master's/MBA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA, CMA or another equivalent is preferred
- Prior experience working in a Finance role supporting a Pharmaceutical or medical devices, Commercial or Research organization in healthcare industry, is highly preferred
- Prior supervisory/management experience preferred
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Business accident insurance
- Group legal insurance
- Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- Savings plan (401(k))
- Long-term incentive program
- 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
Company Overview
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. It was founded in 1886, and is headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ, US, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.jnj.com.
Company H1B Sponsorship
Johnson & Johnson has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 48 in 2025, 56 in 2024, 58 in 2023, 59 in 2022, 44 in 2021, 27 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
