Global Payroll Vendor Governance and Controls Analyst

Location: Bogotá, Colombia or Manila, Philippines
Work Pattern: Global hours across NA, EMEA, LATAM, and ASPAC time zones; up to 15% travel (domestic and/or international)

About Johnson & Johnson

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in innovation enables us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow.

The Global Payroll Vendor Governance and Controls Analyst is responsible for supporting the design, execution, and continuous improvement of payroll compliance and control activities across global Payroll and Time & Attendance (T&A) processes. This role partners closely with Payroll Operations, HR, Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM), Internal Audit/PwC, and external vendors to ensure adherence to regulatory, statutory, and internal control requirements (including SOX), while supporting global transformation initiatives and standardization efforts.

Key Responsibilities

Payroll & T&A Process and Controls:
- Execute and monitor compliance activities across global payroll processes
- Support SOX control execution and testing
- Identify control gaps and coordinate remediation

- Complete required internal control and SOX deliverables
- Ensure alignment with policies and global standards

Audit & Risk Management:
- Support audit engagements and documentation collection
- Maintain audit-ready documentation and coordinate shared storage repositories
- Track compliance KPIs and remediation

-Liaison between audit teams and local SMEs

-Coordinate audit requests in a timely manner

-Confirm alignment or disagreement with audit findings and associated risk

Process Standardization and Continuous Improvement:
- Drive process standardization and documentation
- Support global initiatives ensuring compliance integration

- Influence control improvements and issue remediation through effective collaboration and stakeholder management.

- Identify opportunities to enhance controls and efficiency, leveraging AI where possible
- Support automation and transformation initiatives

Vendor Governance & Stakeholder Management:
- Perform contract reviews against J&J standards and manage on time renewals

- Collaborate with vendors to ensure SLA and control adherence
- Support SOC Report reviews and remediation efforts

-Partner with IT Security and Risk Management team to ensure timely completion of required assessments and deliverables.

Project Management

-Perform required compliance functions to ensure appropriate control design of Payroll and Time and Attendance processes for any new system implementations of deployments.

-Ensure timely and accurate delivery of compliance deliverables prior to go-live, including but not limited to interface inventory documentation, critical reports and spreadsheets identification, payment authorization matrices, etc).

Qualifications:

Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or related field
- 3–5 years of Payroll Operations, Compliance, or Audit experience

Skills:
- Strong understanding of SOX/internal controls

-Strong understanding of payroll and T&A operations
- Experience with payroll and T&A systems (e.g., ADP, eTime)
- Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills
- High attention to detail and compliance orientation

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex concepts for diverse audiences.

- Comfortable working with senior leaders and distributed global teams.

- Self-motivated, adaptable, collaborative, and able to manage multiple priorities independently.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Visio (or equivalent), PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and other MS Office tools.

- Proficiency with generative AI tools and technologies

- Demonstrated understanding of AI concepts and frameworks, including awareness of responsible and ethical AI practices, and experience generating effective prompts to boost efficiency and productivity.

Key Relationships:

- Global Payroll Operations

-Information Security and Risk Management
- HR Services

-Payroll/HR GS Compliance
- Internal Audit / PwC
- Global Process Owners
- External Payroll Vendors