The role will provide the business within a country with complex analysis, reporting, forecasts etc.

• Ensure the operational conversion of the Finance strategic goals within a dedicated area of the business. Provide services to other Finance Teams and contribute to the success of the finance function within their area of the business.
• Support business managers in external and commercial activities. -Actively contributes to the development of strategic long-term financial and business plans through the provision of accurate data and analysis. Ensure the implementation of risk management, financial compliance and controls (Business Process Controls [BPC], Internal and External Audits), and provide necessary information to internal and external auditors.
• Provide accurate operational information and advice to support decision making of business managers, e.g. financial reporting, budgets, forecasts, development of financial systems and audit. -Provide well managed and quality financial analysis in order to support the business planning and forecasting process and alignment across the organization.
• Supervise the performance and development of a small team of Finance specialists. -Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable) •Own controls, process and system expertise from SOD OPs perspective, continuously enrich process knowledge through partnering with IT, Business and FC&C community
• Work closely with the Risk Owners / Process Owners to complete User Access Review, Segregation of Duties and Critical Action reviews effectively and timely. Drive continuous access controls improvement, define and implement solutions
• Reduce the overall number of SoD conflicts across systems and processes. Continuously share the latest access controls updates, best practices and access controls learnings with both FC&C as well as non-FC&C community, train role owners and risk owners on access controls .Ensure transparent, reliable and agile stakeholder management People management, incl. ensuring a high-performance work culture. Ensure workload balancing of the team supporting multiple initiatives, solid focus on Continuous Improvement initiatives, support support transitions and knowledge transfer, monitoring critical deliverables
• Support in ensuring low number of internal control deficiencies, timely reporting of the control deficiencies to local and global stakeholders, maintain and improve customer service , alignment to SOX timelines and SOX 404 attestation processes ,internal and external audits, if required and support for remediation of agreed action.

Essential Requirement:

• Professional Level Degree in Finance
• SAP GRC AC Certified Education: (Preferable):
• 10-15 years of post-qualification experience (incl. IT Application Controls and SAP GRC, SAP security)
• Expert with SAP GRC Access Controls (e.g. definition of org rules, reporting, ad-hoc analysis) and SAP authorization concepts primarily in ECC
• Expert on SAP role design, SAP transactions, risk & role ownership, and have a good understanding of business processes in SAP environment from access and process controls perspective

Desirable Requirements:

• Business Process knowledge with Process Mining | Data Mining | Process Automation Skill Information System Auditor (CISA) / Information Security Manager (CISM) Certification Experience
• Prior working experience in a large Audit firm, preferably Big-4 ,Internal/Statutory/ SOX 404 Audit
• Project management skills with focus on driving performance and productivity