Finance Lead

Finance Lead

Johnson Controls helps create smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings. Across the business, finance plays a key role in supporting growth, protecting assets, and giving leaders the insight they need to make confident decisions.

In this Finance Lead role, you will help strengthen financial planning, reporting, controls, and business partnering so the organization can operate with clarity and discipline.

Role Overview

You will lead core finance activities across reporting, budgeting, forecasting, compliance, and analysis. The role is suited to someone who can combine strong technical accounting knowledge with practical business partnering and a continuous improvement mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency with GAAP and internal reporting requirements.
• Own budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow activities, and provide clear analysis to support business decisions.
• Maintain the general ledger, accounts receivable, and project accounting activities as needed.
• Prepare financial statements, management reports, and performance metrics for finance and business leaders.
• Support internal and external audit requests, SOX-related activities, and responses to regulatory or policy changes.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve financial visibility, strengthen controls, and support business goals.
• Use financial analysis and modeling to evaluate opportunities, risks, and business performance.
• Help develop finance processes and practices that improve efficiency, accuracy, and accountability.
• If applicable, guide and support team members to ensure consistent delivery and strong service to internal stakeholders.

How You Will Do It

• Own outcomes with accountability, accuracy, and integrity so financial data and reporting can be trusted by the business.
• Stay close to the work and the people who depend on finance, asking the right questions and removing obstacles before they affect results.
• Improve every day through candor, curiosity, and problem-solving, using data and insight to strengthen processes and controls.
• Win as one team by building strong partnerships across operations, finance, and other functions.
• Work with ERP data, reporting files, and standard finance processes to keep information clean, current, and actionable.
• Communicate complex financial topics clearly so stakeholders can understand the story behind the numbers.
• Balance speed and precision, especially during close, reporting, audit, and planning cycles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Experience in financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls, audit support, and compliance practices.
• Ability to prepare and review financial statements and management reporting with a high level of accuracy.
• Proficiency with ERP systems and Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with GAAP and, where applicable, SOX requirements.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently while also collaborating effectively across functions.

Nice to Have

• Experience with SAP and HFM.
• Background in cost accounting, project accounting, or accounts receivable.
• Exposure to financial modeling, cash management, or treasury activities.
• Experience supporting business partnering in an operational or manufacturing environment.
• Experience contributing to process improvement or finance transformation initiatives.

Why Join Us

Join a company where finance helps shape decisions that matter. You will work with teams across the business, contribute to stronger financial discipline, and support work that has a real impact on customers and operations.

If you are ready to bring structure, insight, and leadership to a finance team, we would like to hear from you.