Senior Manager - Finance IT Deployment & Integration Lead

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Netherlands, Diegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, Leiden, Netherlands, Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Do you seek big, complex, ambiguous problems? Are you passionate about having a significant impact on the experience, effectiveness, and efficiency of your colleagues through innovative technology solutions and would like to join a 139-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.

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Manager Finance IT Deployment & Integration Lead who will work at the intersection of business and technology to lead the deployment, integration, and adoption of strategic Finance transformation solutions across the region. You can be based in Belgium, Netherlands or UK and will work 3 days per week from a J&J office.

This role combines a deep understanding of finance business processes, deployment methodologies, system integration, and organizational change management to ensure successful delivery of Finance technology initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for driving end-to-end deployment activities for SAP Finance / S/4HANA and related Finance platforms, ensuring alignment with global standards while meeting regional business needs.

You will be part of a team of internal and external technology professionals supporting large-scale Finance transformation programs across the EMEA/APAC/NA region.

Business Deployment Leadership: leading deployment planning and execution activities for Finance transformation programs, ensuring readiness across business processes, technology, data, controls, training, and support models while achieving deployment milestones and value realization objectives.

Integration Management: coordinating and governing end-to-end integration activities across Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, HR, and external systems to ensure seamless business operations and data integrity throughout deployment lifecycles.

Cutover & Go-Live Readiness: developing and managing deployment, cutover, hypercare, and stabilization plans, ensuring successful transition from project delivery into business operations with minimal disruption.

Stakeholder Engagement: partnering with business leaders, process owners, deployment teams, and technology organizations to align deployment strategies, resolve risks, and ensure adoption of new capabilities.

Governance & Risk Management: establishing deployment governance frameworks, monitoring risks, dependencies, issues, and compliance requirements while ensuring adherence to enterprise standards and controls.

Program Execution: partnering with global program teams, system integrators, and regional stakeholders to ensure deployment activities are delivered on schedule, within scope, and aligned to strategic objectives.

Team Leadership: co-lead a global team of finance technology and deployment professionals across multiple domains and locations.

We believe that experience leading large-scale transformation deployments, managing complex integrations, driving organizational change, agile ways of working, intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement are essential to enable success 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.

In addition to these core skills, we expect you to have the following technical expertise:

• S/4 HANA Finance (Account to Report)
• SAP Central Finance
• Deployment and Cutover Management
• Systems Integration and Data Migration
• SAP Cloud Infrastructure and SAP BTP
• Finance Process Transformation
• Data Strategy, Governance, Technology, and Process Definition
• Financial Accounting, Reporting, Close Optimization, and Continuous Accounting
   

Any relevant experience in any of the following processes is a plus:

• I2C (Invoice to Cash)
• P2P (Procure to Pay)
• Asset Management
• Project Accounting
• Treasury
• Finance Master Data Management
   

Qualifications

• Degree Qualifications & Working Conditions
• 20+ years preferred of relevant experience leading large-scale ERP deployments, transformation programs, and/or finance technology teams; strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills; effective manager of people and strong team-building skills.
• 14+ years of relevant functional experience with SAP ECC6 FI/CO, S/4 HANA Finance, Central Finance, and enterprise deployment programs, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in S/4 HANA implementations.
• Technical expertise in the following is preferred: S/4 HANA, SAP Central Finance, Deployment and Cutover Management, SAP BTP, Systems Integration, Data Migration, Governance, Technology, and Process Definition.
• Financial accounting knowledge is crucial.

​Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Consulting, Cost Management, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Resource Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Team Management

  

 

The anticipated pay range and benefits for this position is:

The anticipated base pay range for this position in NETHERLANDS is EUR 82.900 to EUR 144.210
The anticipated base pay range for this position in UK is GBP 69.900 to GBP 121.210