Finance SAP Transformation Leader

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New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent for a Finance SAP Transformation Leader to be located in New Brunswick, NJ Position Summary Director, Finance Transformation is a senior technology and transformation leader responsible for shaping and executing the Finance ERP target state roadmap for Johnson & Johnson's Finance SAP S/4

HANA ecosystem and enabling finance transacting process simplification. This role provides end-to-end technology leadership for shaping roadmaps, technology solution, deployments, and ongoing evolution of core finance transaction process simplification across Invoice-to-Cash (I2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Record-to-Report (R2R), Treasury, Tax, and related finance platforms. The Director is accountable for translating finance transformation priorities into scalable technology solutions that standardize, simplify, automate, and strengthen financial processes, controls, and data integrity across the enterprise.

Leveraging deep expertise in SAP S/4

HANA Finance, finance operations, and large-scale ERP transformations, this leader will drive business value through technology core modernization and innovation while ensuring solutions are secure, compliant, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture standards.

• 1. Finance S/4 Transformation leadership ERP target state - Define and shape the strategic roadmap for the Finance SAP S/4
  
  HANA transacting platform, ensuring alignment to enterprise finance transformation priorities, business value, regulatory needs, and technology modernization goals. Provide technology leadership on SAP S/4
  
  HANA Finance, Central Finance, APM, VIM, Treasury, Tax, I2C, P2P, R2R, and related finance systems. Translate finance business strategies into scalable technology capabilities, sequencing transformation work across releases, deployments, integrations, and run-state priorities. Identify required investments, capability gaps, dependencies, risks, and value opportunities across the finance technology portfolio.
• 2. End-to-End Finance Process Design and Simplification Lead end-to-end design and integration of finance processes within SAP S/4
  
  HANA, ensuring transaction flows, posting logic, master data, controls, and reporting outcomes are designed holistically. Drive process simplification, standardization, and reduction of customizations by maximizing SAP standard capabilities and eliminating manual workarounds. Ensure finance processes are designed with strong business controls, audit readiness, SOX compliance, data integrity, and operational resilience. Partner with Finance process owners to simplify and modernize high-volume transactional processes, for example invoice processing, payment execution, cash application, intercompany, close, reconciliations, and exception management.
• 3. Finance Transacting Process Simplification and Automation Create the roadmap for simplifying, standardizing, and automating core finance transacting processes where there is clear business value, control readiness, and technology feasibility. Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, streamline handoffs, and improve exception management across close, reconciliation, invoice exception handling, cash application, payment matching, forecasting support, and operational issue resolution. Partner with AI, data, architecture, security, and governance teams to ensure automation and emerging technology solutions are compliant, explainable, secure,…