Dir IT Financial Management

6149-DePuy Synthes Products Inc. Legal Entity; New Brunswick (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

DePuy Synthes, a Johnson & Johnson company, seeks a Director of IT Financial Management to define and lead the technology financial strategy across the portfolio. You will oversee budgeting, forecasting, cost governance, and value realization, partnering with Finance, Procurement, Legal, and IT leaders to optimize spend and drive business outcomes.

The role requires 15+ years in IT financial management, strong executive communication, and a proven ability to influence decisions across complex

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in IT financial management or related finance roles.
• Leadership of budgeting, forecasting, governance, and reporting across large IT portfolios.
• Experience managing vendor spend, contracts, renewals, and cost optimization.
• Strong communication with senior executives and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead enterprise IT financial management strategy, governance, and roadmap.
• Oversee annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, long-range planning, and cost governance.
• Advise CIO and senior tech leadership on investments and value realization.
• Establish controls, forums, and dashboards for portfolio financial management.
• Lead vendor financial management across strategic IT suppliers and agreements.
• Collaborate with Procurement, Finance, Legal, and IT service owners on commercial decisions.

Skills

IT financial management

Finance leadership

Budgeting & forecasting

Vendor management

Executive communication

Portfolio governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting/IS

MBA or equivalent advanced degree

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function: Multi-Family Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Category: Professional

All Job Posting Locations: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description: DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Director, IT Financial Management. Location: Raritan, New Jersey, West Chester, Pennsylvania, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Raynham, Massachusetts, Warsaw, Indiana.

Job Overview

The Director, IT Financial Management is accountable for defining and leading the IT financial management strategy, governance model, and operating practices across the DePuy Synthes technology portfolio. The Director will provide enterprise leadership for IT financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, investment governance, cost transparency, vendor financial management, and value realization. This role will serve as a strategic advisor to the Finance and Procurement organizations representing IT and providing inputs to leaders within these organizations. The Director will establish the standards, controls, insights, and decision forums required to manage technology investments, operating expenses, capital expenditures, and strategic vendor commitments with transparency and financial discipline. The Director will also lead the financial management of the IT vendor portfolio, including vendor spend planning, contract commitment visibility, forecast accuracy, commercial-performance analysis, renewal economics, cost optimization, and executive reporting. The role will drive accountability for financial outcomes across IT portfolios, products, platforms, services, programs, and strategic suppliers.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise IT financial management strategy, operating model, governance framework, and multi-year capability roadmap across the technology organization.
• Own annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, long-range planning, capital and operating expense governance, variance management, and financial performance reporting across the IT portfolio.
• Advise the CIO and senior technology leadership on investment allocation, affordability, financial risk, portfolio trade-offs, and opportunities to improve business value from technology spending.
• Establish decision rights, financial controls, management-review forums, reporting standards, and accountability mechanisms for IT portfolio, product, platform, service, and program owners.
• Lead vendor financial management across strategic IT suppliers, including spend plans, actuals, forecasts, accruals, contract commitments, renewal assumptions, consumption trends, rate structures, and financial-performance reporting.
• Partner with Procurement/Sourcing, Finance, Legal, IT service owners, and vendor-management teams to evaluate commercial proposals, contract economics, renewals, sourcing strategies, vendor consolidation opportunities, and service-demand assumptions.
• Establish vendor financial scorecards and executive reviews that provide visibility into spend, contractual commitments, forecast variances, commercial risks, savings, service economics, and value realization.
• Drive sustained cost optimization through vendor spend analysis, contract and licensing optimization, demand management, service-cost transparency, benchmarking, portfolio rationalization, and financial benefits tracking.
• Lead the financial evaluation of technology investments, business cases, transformation programs, and strategic initiatives, including total cost of ownership, scenario analysis, benefits, risks, and post-investment value realization.
• Develop and govern allocation, chargeback, and showback methodologies that connect technology costs to products, platforms, services, applications, and business consumption.
• Track TSA costs, monitor synergy targets, and report on separation-related financial performance.
• Define executive dashboards, performance measures, and forward‑looking financial insights; identify material risks and trends and drive timely corrective action with accountable technology leaders.
• Build and lead a high‑performing IT financial management organization, including managers and/or senior individual contributors, with responsibility for organizational capability, workforce planning, succession, coaching, and development.
• Champion consistent financial practices, data standards, automation, and continuous improvement across the global technology organization.

Education

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.

Master’s degree, MBA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Experience and Skills Required

• 15+ years of progressive experience in IT financial management, corporate finance, technology portfolio management, or a related discipline within a complex, global, or matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated leadership of enterprise or large‑portfolio budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial governance, and management reporting.
• Demonstrated experience managing the financial dimensions of a significant technology‑vendor portfolio, including vendor budgets, forecasts, contractual commitments, renewals, consumption, commercial analysis, and cost optimization.
• Strong understanding of IT cost structures, capital and operating expense management, technology services, software licensing, professional services, managed services, cloud consumption, and technology investment economics.
• Experience partnering with Procurement/Sourcing, Finance, Legal, IT leaders, and business stakeholders on sourcing decisions, commercial evaluations, contract negotiations, and vendor‑performance reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to advise and influence senior executives, challenge assumptions, communicate financial implications, and drive decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Experience establishing financial governance, decision rights, controls, performance measures, and accountability across portfolios, products, platforms, or services.
• Demonstrated people leadership, including leadership of managers and/or senior professionals, talent development, workforce planning, and succession management.
• Strong executive communication, analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder‑management capabilities.

Preferred

• Experience leading IT cost‑transparency, chargeback/showback, technology business management, or IT financial management capabilities.
• Experience implementing or improving portfolio financial‑management processes, data models, dashboards, and planning tools.
• Experience leading vendor consolidation, licensing optimization, managed-service financial governance, or enterprise cost‑transformation initiatives.
• Background in healthcare, medical devices, life sciences, or another regulated global industry.
• Experience supporting a major business transformation, separation, integration, or technology operating‑model change.

Other

• Travel: Up to approximately 10–15%, including international travel, based on business needs.
• Certifications: Finance, accounting, sourcing, or IT financial management certifications such as CPA, CMA, ITFM, TBM, or equivalent credentials preferred.

For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career, and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected under federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills

Business Architecture, Business Process Design, Business Savvy, Computer Programming, Emerging Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Product Knowledge, Program Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Change, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility

Preferred Skills

Business Architecture, Business Process Design, Business Savvy, Computer Programming, Emerging Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Leadership, Organizational Change Management, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Product Knowledge, Program Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Change, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility

Pay Transparency

The anticipated base pay range for this position is : $150,000.00 - $300,000.00 Annually

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long‑term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: (the bullet list above).

Please go to https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits for additional general information on Company benefits.

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.