Senior Team Lead, Legal Entity Accounting

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Role purpose: Lead day-to-day LEA operations and external reporting delivery while preparing the organization for the One LE Controller model and end-to-end US GAAP-to-Local GAAP accountability.

GS Finance Legal Entity Accounting supports the delivery of locally compliant financial reporting obligations for Johnson & Johnson affiliates across jurisdictions. The Senior Team Lead is responsible for the day-to-day operations of LEA, including prioritizing, maintaining, and delivering LEA activities and functions. The role leads professionals supporting statutory audits, tax audits, tax compliance data provision, statistical reporting, regulatory reporting, statutory financial statement preparation, and close-related activities across the APAC region.

The role ensures accurate and timely delivery of external reporting obligations while partnering with Finance, Tax, Legal, IT, auditors, consultants, and regulatory authorities. It also contributes to transitions, capability expansion, process transformation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

This position is part of GS Finance's multi-year One LE Controller journey, which unifies CFM and LEA into one LE Controller role to safeguard end-to-end statutory and US GAAP financial integrity. The role is expected to prepare for and transition into the LE Controller role in line with the 2026-2028 transformation plan.

The successful candidate will be a proactive, self-directed people leader who can navigate ambiguity, solve sophisticated business challenges, build trusted stakeholder relationships, and lead teams through growth and change.

·    Lead, coach, and develop a team of professionals responsible for statutory audits, tax audits, tax compliance support, statutory financial statements, statistical reporting, regulatory reporting, and related LEA activities.

·    Supervise day-to-day team operations, including work allocation, scheduling, timeline establishment, hiring, performance evaluation, performance management, and disciplinary actions where required.

·    Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, continuous improvement, engagement, capability building, and succession planning, including the development of people leaders.

·    Allocate resources and prioritize work to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant delivery of audit, close, statutory, tax, and regulatory requirements across markets.

·    Review journal entries, account reconciliations, and management reports, including items related to tax transactions.

·    Monitor and facilitate month-end and year-end close activities and support the analysis and interpretation of financial results and operating reports for management planning.

·    Assist in the preparation and full review of statutory financial statements and coordinate with stakeholders to complete statutory and tax audits.

·    Oversee Corporate Income Tax (CIT) and Estimated Corporate Income Tax (ECI) compliance activities, partnering with Tax and relevant stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely statutory filings.

·    Present financial results to critical business partners and provide relevant flux analysis and business insights for major P&L and balance sheet line items

·    Review mark-up related operating margin P&Ls,analyze key drivers and variances, and provide recommendations to relevant stakeholders.

·    Maintain a strong control environment, assess and mitigate operational risks, and implement changes or additions to accounting practices and procedures where appropriate.

·    Partner with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate reporting requirements, resolve complex issues, and support audit, compliance, and regulatory activities across multiple markets.

·    Lead transitions, migrations, and capability expansion initiatives, including process stabilization, standardization, knowledge transfer, and short- and long-range planning.

·    Drive continuous improvement through automation, analytics, and digital solutions to improve efficiency, scalability, control, and reporting quality.

·    Serve as an escalation point for complex reporting, audit, close, accounting, and compliance matters.

·    Own end-to-end financial accountability for assigned legal entities, from US GAAP to Local GAAP, under the One LE Controller model.

·    Build end-to-end capability by developing and sharing US GAAP and Local GAAP knowledge across the team.

·    Act as the single point of contact for stakeholders, with proactive communication under the new interaction model.

·    Work as part of an agile team that reduces handoffs and duplicated effort between CFM and LEA and delivers a seamless stakeholder experience.

·    Support the shift from MRC-centric ownership to legal-entity-based consolidation and reporting.

·    Support regional process assessment and mapping as the transition approach is rolled out.

·    Adopt technology enablers including CFIN L1, Workiva for statutory financial statements, and Transact, while supporting automation and AI synergies.

·    Support statutory financial statement insourcing and the planned significant reduction of external SFS support across APAC.

·    Participate in the phased APAC design and go-live, including final design and phased implementation in 2027, and the target of one Controller team in each region by 2028.

·    Actively participate in upskilling and knowledge-sharing activities, preparing for the future MRC-to-LE shift.

·    Bachelor's degree in Accountancy, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

·    Professional accounting qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CA, CIMA, or equivalent are preferred.

·    Minimum 5 years of relevant accounting, reporting, audit, close, or compliance experience.

·    Strong accounting and finance background with experience in SOX and local statutory audits, statutory reporting, regulatory compliance, and full preparation and review of statutory financial statements.

·    Experience reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, management reports, and close activities.

·    Strong ability to analyze and present financial results to critical business partners

·    Strong knowledge of markup-related operating margin P&Ls, including ability to identify key drivers and recommend appropriate actions.

·    Experience supporting tax audits, tax authority requests, tax transactions, and compliance-related data provision.

·    Working knowledge of US GAAP and Local GAAP, multi-GAAP reporting environments, and sophisticated legal entity structures, with the ability and willingness to build end-to-end capability.

·    Proven success leading teams in a global or shared services environment, including experience managing people leaders.

·    Experience handling transitions, migrations, service expansion, or operating-model transformation initiatives.

·    Track record of initiating and delivering continuous improvement projects.

·    Strong stakeholder management, written communication, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build partnerships across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.

·    Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity and incomplete information, solve complex problems, and drive decisions to resolution.

·    Strong risk assessment, mitigation, project management, prioritization, and organizational skills in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

·    Experience with SAP S/4HANA and financial reporting systems.

·    Experience using automation, analytics, and digital tools such as Power BI, Power Platform, Alteryx, RPA, CFIN, Workiva, Transact, or similar technologies.

·    Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; European language skills are a plus.