Senior Business Controller

**Job Function**:
Finance
**Job Sub Function**:
Finance Business Partners
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Madrid, Spain

**Senior Business Controller**

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Spain is recruiting for a Senior Business Controller, located in Madrid, Spain. You will be a key finance partner to the local operation company in Spain.

Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 130 years. We embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people.

At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, we are dedicated to addressing and solving some of the most important unmet medical needs of our time in oncology, hematology, immunology, neuroscience, pulmonary hypertension and infectious diseases. Driven by our commitment to patients, we bring innovative products, services and solutions to people throughout the world. Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson (J&J).

As a key member of the J&J IM Spain Finance Leadership team, the Senior Business Controller will be delivering strategic value-adding Finance support to the Spanish Oncology, Immunology and CNS Therapeutic Areas. Further will the Senior Business Controller be responsible for the development, execution, management and follow up of Spanish financial strategies and action plans, as well as the development of a Business Plan and Long-Range Financial Plan (LRFP) to maximize the value of the J&J IM portfolio over the long term. The Senior Business Controller is further specifically responsible for Financial Analysis, Resource Allocation, Latest Thinking & Forecast Updates.

**Key responsibilities**:
**Business Partnering and Leadership**
- Build in-depth knowledge of brand/product strategy, pipeline, competitive landscape and market dynamics
- Develop strong relationships with key business partners at country level with the Board, Franchise Director, the County Value Team (CVT), BI, HEMAR, MAF and other Functional Leads
- Strategic business partnering to help drive growth of the TA in Spain. Support the CVT in driving the TA commercial strategy and play an advisory role for launch products (resource allocation,)
- Lead and deliver the TA Business Plan and TA Long Range Financial Plan
- Finance leader to support innovate product launches with complex agreements and outcome-based schemes within the TA

**Finance Leadership**
- Lead the development of the LRFP, Business Plan, updates, and quarterly latest estimate cycles.
- Actively contribute to developing Spain Strategies, including Iberia target setting and resource allocation
- Net Trade Sales and Operating Expenses planning and performance analysis and challenge, identify risks/opportunities
- Support SigniFi implementation and workstreams and initiatives in the transformation roadmap.

**People management**
- Provides people leadership to the Spain Finance Department in a high performing, positive and engaging working environment
- Actively collaborates with the other TA controller as well as with other countries’ controllers and EMEA Regional Team

**Qualifications**
- University Degree & recognised professional financial qualifications.
- Exceptional financial and analytical skills
- Minimum 10 years of relevant working experience, experience collaborating with senior management, business, and functional leaders.
- Demonstrated digital acumen, including experience with advanced analytics, automation, and modern finance technologies to drive efficiency and insight
- Strong collaborative, framing & communication, and interpersonal skills
- Proven business partnering capabilities
- Passion for people and their development
- Ability to influence/impact decisions, collaborate and build trust amongst senior business leaders, direct reports and finance colleagues
- Proven experience as a Finance Leader in a large, multinational and matrix organization.
- Pharmaceutical industry know-how is a plus with knowledge of health care systems
- Strong interpersonal skills, team player mentality and collaborative working style
- Excellent communication, influencing and framing skills.
- Ability to manage complexity and ambiguity in periods of change
- Very good stress control and high sense of urgency
- Controlled risk-taking capacity
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Fluent Spanish and English