Senior Legal Entity Controller

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The GSF Legal Entity Controller provides integrated financial oversight across assigned legal entities and/or cluster scope combining statutory accounting and in scope tax coordination close oversight reporting and financial analysis to support accurate financial statements and informed business decisions.

The role serves as a key connector between Business Unit Finance auditors tax partners Global Services process teams and other stakeholders ensuring high-quality US GAAP and statutory reporting strong compliance and controls timely issue resolution and continuous improvement across end-to-end finance processes.

Financial Reporting Close & Analysis

• Coordinate close activities for assigned scope ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
• Review financial statements trial balance and key reporting outputs to ensure accuracy completeness and compliance with US GAAP and local reporting requirements.
• Perform balance sheet and P&L analysis variance analysis risk assessment and commentary preparation to support management review and decision-making.
• Support preparation review and submission of reporting packages (including BRAVO approval) and ensure issues are resolved prior to final reporting.

Legal Entity Statutory & Tax Coordination

• Coordinate preparation of local statutory financial statements and support statutory audit activities for assigned entities working with internal teams and external providers as applicable.
• Support legal entity accounting activities including local GAAP considerations statutory adjustments and legal entity reporting requirements.
• Partner with tax teams and other stakeholders to ensure accurate tax accounting timely inputs and alignment of statutory and management reporting.
• Maintain strong understanding of entity-specific requirements key risks and reporting obligations across the assigned portfolio.

Compliance Controls & Audit

• Execute and support compliance with internal controls and SOX requirements within the assigned scope ensuring documentation and evidence are complete and audit-ready.
• Support internal and external audits by coordinating requests providing accurate information and helping drive timely issue resolution and remediation actions.

Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key finance partner for Business Unit Finance local market stakeholders and GS process teams on matters related to reporting close and legal entity accounting.
• Provide financial insights explain key movements and risks and support alignment across stakeholders to enable effective and timely decisions.
• Coordinate across multiple teams to resolve issues clarify ownership and ensure smooth end-to-end delivery across the assigned scope.

Risk Management & Issue Resolution

• Identify assess and communicate financial operational and reporting risks and opportunities within the assigned portfolio.
• Drive resolution of accounting reporting or close-related issues by coordinating the right stakeholders and tracking actions to completion.
• Escalate material risks or delays appropriately and support mitigation planning to reduce business and reporting impact.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Contribute to process simplification standardization automation and system and scope transformation initiatives across finance operations and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve controls reporting quality handoffs and ways of working and support implementation of sustainable solutions.

• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting Economics or a related field.
• minimum of 6 years of relevant finance experience in financial accounting reporting legal entity accounting statutory reporting audit tax coordination and/or financial analysis.
• Professional accounting qualification or equivalent international certification is preferred.
• Experience with US GAAP and exposure to IFRS and/or local GAAP is preferred.

• Strong understanding of financial statements close processes accounting principles and general ledger structures.
• Strong analytical skills including variance analysis balance sheet review and ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Good understanding of statutory reporting audit coordination and control environments.
• Strong stakeholder management communication and coordination skills across a matrix environment.
• Ability to prioritize effectively manage competing deadlines and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset with interest in standardization simplification and automation.

• Fluent in English.
• Additional EMEA language skills are preferred but not required.
• Demonstrates an understanding of AI concepts and frameworks including awareness of responsible and ethical AI practices and has experience generating effective prompts to boost efficiency and productivity.

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In addition to base pay we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location where the actual amount is based on the employees and companies performance of the previous calendar year or sales commissions. Moreover we offer vacation days parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks bereavement leave caregiver leave volunteer leave well-being reimbursement programs for financial physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards and subject to the terms of their respective plans employees - and in some locations eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information visit Employee benefits Supporting well-being & career growth Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.