Senior Team Lead, Legal Entity Accounting

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Job Function:
Finance

Job Sub Function:
Accounting

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Taguig, National Capital Region (Manila), Philippines

Job Description:

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.

Role Overview

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.
Key Responsibilities

• 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, perf...