Associate Finance Manager - SEAI FP&A

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Mumbai, India

Job Description:

The Associate Finance Manager (FP&A) plays a key role within the South East Asia India (SEAI) Innovative Medicine Finance team, supporting financial planning and forecasting, performance management, and business decision support across the SEAI cluster, while providing compliance and selected India FP&A support. The role partners closely with local BUF teams, India finance team and Regional finance team to deliver actionable insights, strengthen planning discipline, and drive process simplification.

Job Responsibilities:
• Partner with SEAI HQ, Regional Finance and local BUF teams to support cluster financial planning, updates and performance reviews.
• Consolidate and analyze market submissions, including NTS, Opex, headcount/resource allocation, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, and key business assumptions.
• Identify risks and opportunities, develop financial insights, and prepare management review materials and executive reporting.
• Deliver forward-looking analyses to support brand performance, portfolio prioritization, target setting, and resource allocation decisions.
• Drive process simplification, standardization, and continuous improvement in alignment with Finance transformation initiatives. Participate in Regional Finance initiatives as the need arises
• Support LRFP, Business Plan, IBP, forecast updates and market performance review cycles for SEAI through coordination, consolidation, and analysis of market inputs.
• Prepare financial bridges, variance analyses, and management commentary for leadership reviews.
• Contribute to target setting, scenario analysis and resource allocation trade-off discussions.
• Ensure planning outputs are clear, consistent, data-driven and aligned with agreed business assumptions..

India local market FP&A and Compliance
• Provide FP&A support to India local market, including performance tracking, budget variance analysis and planning cycle support.
• Partner with India market Finance and Commercial stakeholders to understand key business drivers, risks/opportunities and resource needs.
• Ensure India submissions are aligned with cluster requirements, timelines and agreed assumptions.
• Support the Finance compliance agenda, including coordination of compliance activities, review follow-up and issue tracking where applicable.
• Help ensure adherence to J&J worldwide financial policies, Business Conduct procedures and related control expectations.
• Partner with local finance teams and relevant stakeholders to strengthen documentation discipline, ownership and accountability.

People and collaboration
• Champion collaboration across Finance Teams and promote a One Finance mindset.
• Demonstrate curiosity, business acumen, agile learning and ability to develop a point of view that influences outcomes.
• Build trusted working relationships with market teams, regional partners and cross-functional stakeholders.

Other finance strategic initiatives
• Support delivery of Global Finance agenda and Finance transformation initiatives, including SigniFi-related priorities where relevant.
• Provide ad-hoc support to SEAI/India Finance priorities and cross-functional projects as required.

Other features of the job

Individual role and responsibilities are subject to adjustment based on J&J business requirements, goals and objectives.

Job requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field, with at least 5 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business planning, or related finance roles.
• Strong financial planning, analysis, reporting, and business partnering capabilities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Anaplan, SigniFi, AFO, or other enterprise planning and reporting tools is an advantage.
• Ability to translate data into actionable insights and effectively support business decision-making.
• Strong communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities across regional and market stakeholders.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or FMCG industry is preferred.
• Demonstrates strong integrity and commitment to compliance and ethical business practices.
• MBA and/or professional qualifications (ACCA, CA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent) are a plus.

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, Benchmarking, Budgeting, Communication, Consulting, Data Savvy, Econometric Models, Execution Focus, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Operational Excellence, Problem Solving