■Job Description:
The Business Unit Finance (BUF) team partners with commercial leadership to shape strategy, drive portfolio/pricing decisions, and lead/participate in management processes that supports & enables us to be the fastest growing medical device company in Japan. Our role is to surface the right facts, past learnings, and partner with key stakeholders to drive decisions necessary to deliver market leading results. We strive to work closely with our functional and regional partners to understand the needs & challenges while ensuring that what we implement will drive value for our patients/stakeholders.

The Finance Manager will support the Senior Finance Manager in monitoring financial performance, focusing on P&L management, and providing timely insights that enable growth, profitability, and governance across Orthopaedics/DePuy Synthes Japan. In addition, the finance manager will support the planned separation of the Orthopaedics business especially from financial perspectives in collaboration with BUF team, stakeholders, regional and global teams.

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.  

The role will involve working closely with Orthopaedics/Depuy Synthes business partners and finance counterparts within the Japan team, as well as across our finance regional office and global teams. He/She will collaborate with GS, Tax, and compliance team to ensure appropriate financial statements and internal controls.

■Key business partners:

・Orthopaedics/Depuy Synthes senior leaders

・Regional and global finance leaders and teams

・GS, Tax, and compliance team


KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
■Financial planning and Reporting:

Lead/support the entire Business Planning cycles by collaborating with the FP&A team and regional FP&A (COE) team. Influence goal setting for Orthopaedics/Depuy Synthes business, including resource recommendations across activity types and businesses.

Coordinate, consolidate, and review franchise financial data for each budget cycle submissions, adhoc reports/analyses.

Lead/support Strategic Planning/3yr Growth Plan financial cycle for the Orthopaedics/Depuy Synthes business

Facilitate clear representation of the business’ actual performance, future plans, risks and opportunities.

Provide planning inputs including insights from macroeconomics/ Reimbursement / competitor analysis

Create clarity on source of growth, innovation pipeline sufficiency and resource needs

Drive investment resource allocation in the right direction within Orthopaedics business

Partner with regional FP&A (COE) and Senior Finance Manager to ensure timely, accurate & appropriate regular reporting and communication to Regional / Local management including monthly sales dashboard, GP commentary, price and volume change analysis, NPI tracking, Opex progress, franchise P&L etc.

Lead discussions with Supply Chain team and oversee the management and reporting of inventory costs.

Collaborate to improve current practices by driving better accuracy, efficiency and simplicity.

■Business and Financial Projects and Initiatives:

Support company-wide / Orthopaedics business initiatives, including projects with CS&CE, to drive growth and profitability.

Provide insights in some of cross-cluster/market initiatives including cross-cluster finance initiatives.

Support appropriate planning and execution of Orthopaedics rebate programs, sales incentive plans, and other programs to ensure financial compliance and effective resource allocation.

Plan and implement educational trainings to Japan employees to improve financial acumen and compliance in the organization.

Support global financial project as appropriate.

Support/lead adhoc projects.

■Preparation for the planned separation of Orthopaedics business:

Lead or support the separation related processes to enable independent financial operation of the Orthopaedics business, focusing on ERP, CAPEX, and purchase-order systems, as well as other related systems and applications, in collaboration with PMOs in Japan, region and global, and other stakeholders.

Define and harmonize financial requirements and governance for standalone operations, ensuring process alignment across Japan, regional, and global teams, and maintaining data integrity and risk management during the transition.

Drive cross-functional execution, vendor coordination, data migration, and change management to deliver a standalone Orthopaedics financial platform, ensuring compliance with regional/global objectives and regulatory standards. Support internal and/or external audit processes for separation as appropriate.

■Compliance and Audit:

Responsible for ensuring a strong compliant environment and driving this culture across the organization.

Provide support to business partners and compliance team to ensure compliance (SOX, HCC, FCPA, Taxation etc.)