Global Financial Controls & Compliance Process Experts Senior Manager

Imagine shaping the future of financial controls in one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. You will play a newly created cross-process role within the Financial Controls & Compliance SME team, helping to strengthen how Novartis designs, harmonizes and enables its global controls environment. Working closely with Global Process Owners, IT application controls specialists, methodology teams, external auditors and FC&C operations, you will help identify best practices, improve cross-process collaboration and support the shift from manual controls towards an increasingly digital, system-enabled and S/4HANA-driven control environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and establish the scope, responsibilities and ways of working for a newly created cross-process SME role within Global Financial Controls & Compliance.
• Drive stronger collaboration, knowledge sharing and best-practice adoption across process SME teams, helping reduce silos and build consistent approaches.
• Partner with Global Process Owners, FC&C Operations, Group Methodology, IT application controls teams and external auditors to align control design, remediation and methodology requirements.
• Lead cross-process coordination and project management activities, ensuring priorities, dependencies, decisions and actions are clearly managed.
• Strengthen IT application controls capability across the SME team, acting as an ambassador for system-enabled controls, automated controls, workflows and configuration considerations.
• Support the evolution of the control environment in the context of S/4HANA / Lean Digital Core transformation, helping translate business and system change into robust control design.
• Identify opportunities to harmonize, simplify and improve global controls processes, including opportunities for digital enablement, automation and more efficient monitoring.

Essential Requirements

• 10+ years experience in finance controls, internal controls, risk, audit, compliance or related areas within a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong understanding of Internal Control over Financial Reporting, SOX / SOX 404 requirements, control design, remediation and control testing environments.
• Experience working with IT application controls, automated controls, system workflows, segregation of duties or finance systems control environments.
• Proven ability to work cross-process, connect stakeholders, diagnose gaps and translate complex requirements into pragmatic ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, Digital / IT, audit, methodology and operations teams.
• Strong project management, coordination and change management capability, with a track record of driving clarity and momentum across multiple priorities.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and at least one additional European language; additional language skills are advantageous.

Desirable Requirements

• Professional certification such as CISA, CIA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent, particularly where linked to IT audit, systems controls or financial controls.
• Experience gained in a Big Four advisory / audit environment, ideally combined with in-house experience in a global organization or transformation setting.

Benefits & Rewards

At Novartis, we’re committed to reimagining medicine together - and rewarding the people who make it happen. In addition to your base salary, you may be eligible for a performance-based bonus depending on certain performance parameters. The rewards of being part of our team go far beyond base pay and incentives. We also offer a variety of competitive benefits in kind to help you thrive personally and professionally, such as insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources and global recognition programs. In addition, we provide flexible and hybrid working options, where possible, and minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave.

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams’ representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, please send an e-mail to di.cz@novartis.com.