This role ensures financial performance through strategic analysis and optimal resource allocation in order to reimagine medicine across 70 countries. Ensures compliance and reporting from a tax and external reporting perspective of costs up to $3.5 billion.

• Charging Model Design: Owns the statutory charging model design for all Services domains ($3.5bn). Leads interactions with Services Domains, Group Tax, Group FRA to align all aspects of the Services charging model
• Drives E2E process simplification and automation leveraging state of the art systems and platforms. Enables analytical reporting capabilities leveraging Services Finance Cube and Dashboard solutions. Coordinates a Charging Model governance body including senior stakeholders for all charging and pricing related activities.
• Owns financial data published on service repository and financial reporting environment. Funds Flow and Statutory Billing: Responsible for the statutory billing process for all Services domains and communication with country stakeholders.
• Owns the charge calculation for each legal entity based on their overall Services cost base and specific drivers for each service. Plans and monitors Services local profitability in each legal entity, in alignment with the local teams, Divisional Funds Flow teams and Group Tax. Supports structural and contractual changes by ensuring tax-related matters are incorporated
• Compliance and Statutory documentation: Owns the Global Service Framework and worldwide Service Agreement database. Coordinates SLA simplification across Services domains while ensuring full compliance against potential legal, tax and audit requirements.
• Monitors local / global teams’ adherence to Novartis Compliance and internal controls requirements and support legal entities in statutory/regulatory filings

Essential Requirements:

• Excellent analytical skills and ability to cultivate a constructive, yet challenging dialogue with exCTS Service Domains.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, and ability to clearly present financial data in reports distributed to Global officers
• Shows strong sense of urgency in solving problems, getting work done, also through others in his/her coordination role
• Reliability, timeliness and accuracy of budgetary and financial forecasts. Standardization of Service Agreements and Transfer Pricing documentation. Happiness of internal customers with timeliness and depth of reporting information provided
• Experience in a similar role in a matrix organization with global presence

Desirable requirements:

• University degree in economics, business, or related field. Advanced degree in business, economics, or related field preferred
• 8-10 years’ experience in budgeting and/or controlling positions in both local country and global central roles. Experience crafting and operating financial reporting and forecasting systems.