Technical Product Owner – IT Manager - Blackline and Core Finance

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Technical Product Owner – IT Manager - Blackline and Core Finance to be located in New Brunswick, NJ.

Do you seek big, complex, ambiguous problems? Are you passionate about having a meaningful impact on the experience, effectiveness, and efficiency of your colleagues through innovative technology solutions? Do you want to be a part of a 133-year-old startup?

Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The Technical Product Owner, IT Manager- Blackline, Bravo and CoStar will work at the intersection of the finance team & technology to define strategies that combine a deep understanding of business objectives, challenges, with technology solutions and extending them into development execution, value realization & ongoing product management.

In this role, you will support the Blackline and Brovo squad teams (such as, but not limited to, new products, enhancement, and closing activities). This role will also provide coaching to Product Analyst and other indirect reports.

Vision & Strategy Definition: shaping a ‘future proof’ finance business vision, strategy & capability roadmaps, and corresponding technology strategy & product roadmaps with significant decision-making latitude

Business Problem Definition: understanding and translating business problems faced by the finance function into a value case & comprehensive set of solutions spanning process, technology, data, governance & user experience supported by defined, baselined value realization key performance indicators

External Insights: understand external insights, trends, leading practices in Accounts to Reporting (A2R) product maturity, machine learning and artificial intelligence space.

Solution Design: ensuring that product development efforts incorporate an approach that starts with experimentation to validate expected impact, includes human centered design, Automation to reduce run cost, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, required end to end process optimizations, and compliance engagement

Value Realization: defining expected value impact of investments across employee experience, functional excellence, efficiency, and compliance

Architecture: partnering with the finance architecture team to define the role each system plays within our landscape aligned with business capabilities

Internal Partnerships: acting as the primary trusted advisor to senior finance & technology leaders across all lifecycles of Account to Report (A2R) product development starting with inception through to value realization & ongoing continuous improvement, and communication of progress against strategic objectives

Product Management: partnering with product management teams to ensure roadmaps are oriented to deliver finance business & technology strategy, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators

External Partnerships: managing vendor relationships to influence development roadmaps & ensure that our needs will be met by our technology partners

We believe that experience developing insight led strategy, crafting innovative technology solutions, experimentation, agile ways of working, intellectual curiosity, empathy, leading teams, and human centered design are essential to enable you to be successful in this role. Furthermore, it is essential that you are a natural collaborator, who has the leadership presence to influence results and build a strong sense of collective team engagement. We desire a candidate who has experience structuring & facilitating large workshops with senior stakeholders. In addition to these core skills, we would expect you to have the following technical expertise:

Experience with financial close process

Financial planning and analysis

Experience with BlackLine application is preferred

Experience with SAP, SAP Central Finance, and/or JDE ERP systems and processes are preferred

Demonstration of Planning, Prioritization and Project Management skills are critical to success and highly preferred

Human Centered Design

Artificial intelligence /machine learning

People management experience

Reporting to the Director A2R, you would partner closely with global process owners, senior finance personnel, and financial systems leads to maximize the transformational potential of technology investments.