Legal Entity Controller

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The Legal Entity (LE) Controller provides integrated financial oversight across assigned legal entities and/or cluster scope, combining statutory accounting, tax coordination, close oversight, reporting, and financial analysis to support accurate financial statements and informed business decisions.

The role serves as a key connector between Business Unit Finance, auditors, tax partners, global finance operations and shared services teams, and other stakeholders, ensuring high-quality US GAAP and statutory reporting, strong compliance and controls, timely issue resolution, and continuous improvement across end-to-end finance processes.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting, Close & Analysis

• Coordinate close activities for assigned scope, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
• Review financial statements, trial balance, and key reporting outputs to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with US GAAP and local reporting requirements.
• Perform balance sheet and P&L analysis, variance analysis, risk assessment, and commentary preparation to support management review and decision-making.
• Support preparation, review, and submission of reporting packages (including BRAVO approval processes) and ensure issues are resolved prior to final reporting.

Legal Entity, Statutory & Tax Coordination

• Coordinate preparation of local statutory financial statements and support statutory audit activities for assigned entities, working with internal teams and external providers as applicable.
• Support legal entity accounting activities, including local GAAP considerations, statutory adjustments, and legal entity reporting requirements.
• Partner with tax teams and other stakeholders to ensure accurate tax accounting, timely inputs, and alignment of statutory and management reporting.
• Maintain a strong understanding of entity-specific requirements, key risks, and reporting obligations across the assigned portfolio.

Compliance, Controls & Audit

• Execute and support compliance with internal controls and SOX requirements within the assigned scope, ensuring documentation and evidence are complete and audit-ready.
• Support internal and external audits by coordinating requests, providing accurate information, and helping drive timely issue resolution and remediation actions.

Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key finance partner for Business Unit Finance, local market stakeholders, and global finance/shared services teams on matters related to reporting, close, and legal entity accounting.
• Provide financial insights, explain key movements and risks, and support alignment across stakeholders to enable effective and timely decisions.
• Coordinate across multiple teams to resolve issues, clarify ownership, and ensure smooth end-to-end delivery across the assigned scope.

Risk Management & Issue Resolution

• Identify, assess, and communicate financial, operational, and reporting risks and opportunities within the assigned portfolio.
• Drive resolution of accounting, reporting, or close-related issues by coordinating the right stakeholders and tracking actions to completion.
• Escalate material risks or delays appropriately and support mitigation planning to reduce business and reporting impact.

Process Improvement & Transformation

• Contribute to process simplification, standardization, automation, and system and scope transformation initiatives across finance operations and reporting.
• Identify opportunities to improve controls, reporting quality, handoffs, and ways of working, and support implementation of sustainable solutions.
• Demonstrate agility in the use of technology by challenging the status quo and proactively identifying opportunities to drive efficiencies and enhance processes.

Additional Expectations

• Demonstrate strong business acumen, including understanding of industry trends, business developments, and relevant entity-specific factors.
• Apply this understanding to support decision-making, anticipate risks and opportunities, and ensure alignment between business and financial outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of finance experience in financial accounting, reporting, legal entity accounting, statutory reporting, audit, tax coordination, and/or financial analysis.
• Professional accounting qualification or equivalent international certification is preferred.
• Experience with US GAAP and exposure to IFRS and/or local GAAP is preferred.

Experience and Skills

• Strong understanding of financial statements, close processes, accounting principles, and general ledger structures.
• Strong analytical skills, including variance analysis, balance sheet review, and ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Good understanding of statutory reporting, audit coordination, and control environments.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and coordination skills across a matrix environment.
• Ability to prioritize effectively, manage competing deadlines, and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset with interest in standardization, simplification, and automation.
• Demonstrates an understanding of AI concepts and frameworks, including awareness of responsible and ethical AI practices, and has experience generating effective prompts to boost efficiency and productivity.

• Fluent in English, additional EMEA language skills are preferred but not required.

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Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.