Finance Compliance Lead — ERP Transformation & SOX Expert

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Leiden; On-site; EUR 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Vacation days

Well-being programs

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend) to be embedded in the IM Transcend program, safeguarding delivery by implementing a holistic compliance strategy across design, build, test, deployment, and run state.

You will partner with program leadership to drive risk-based testing, SOX/ICFR, and cross-program controls, providing clear risk insights to senior leadership and ensuring readiness across fast-paced ERP transformations.

Qualifications

• Expertise in financial and IT internal controls, SOX 404, US GAAP and IFRS.
• Experience leading compliance in large-scale, global ERP transformations.
• SAP S/4HANA transformation experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the end-to-end IM Transcend compliance strategy, framework, roadmap and integrated plan across design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare and transition to run state.
• Operate as a fully embedded member of the program, partnering with Program Leadership, PMO, value streams, functional teams and deployment leads to embed compliance requirements into program governance, decisions, plans and delivery milestones.
• Lead the program de-risking approach by proactively identifying, assessing, prioritizing and monitoring end-to-end compliance risks, dependencies and control impacts across processes, data, technology and deployments.
• Define and govern risk appetite, mitigation actions, ownership, escalation paths and stage-gate criteria; provide timely risk insight and recommendations to support leadership go/no-go and release-readiness decisions.
• Establish and maintain the integrated compliance package and traceability across the process taxonomy, risks, controls, reports, interfaces, requirements, test evidence and run-state documentation.
• Drive a risk-based SOX and finance compliance testing strategy, ensuring control requirements are designed into test scenarios, execution evidence is complete and deficiencies are remediated before release.
• Lead engagement with Global Audit & Assurance and external auditors, coordinating scope, milestone-based reviews, walkthroughs, evidence and remediation to sustain audit readiness throughout the program lifecycle.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented reporting to senior leadership on risk exposure, mitigation status, compliance milestones, audit observations, emerging issues and recommended actions.

Skills

SOX 404

US GAAP

IFRS

Internal controls

Risk management

ERP transformation

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

PowerBI

PowerQuery

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking a Finance Compliance Manager (Transcend) to be embedded in the IM Transcend program, safeguarding delivery by implementing a holistic compliance strategy across design, build, test, deployment, and run state.

You will partner with program leadership to drive risk-based testing, SOX/ICFR, and cross-program controls, providing clear risk insights to senior leadership and ensuring readiness across fast-paced ERP transformations.