Associate Director IT - Global Function Solution Delivery Digital Assurance

Your key responsibilities:

• Partner with Global Finance Business to understand their needs and challenges and translating this information into project requirements.
• Drive the process from IT Project Demand shaping through Project approval to project execution
• Perform business analysis and prepare recommendations for technology decisions including business case creation and financial assumptions.
• Ensure designed solutions are aligned with IT strategy standards and roadmap. Bring innovations to the solutions and add measurable values to Finance business.
• Create project charters, set up staffing profile, Establish & maintain project budgets, timelines, and Roadmap for Finance Data & Digital analytics projects
• Execute IT Projects and monitor scope to ensure that it meets business specifications while staying within budget and on schedule.
• Report progress to Projects’ Steering Committees
• Develop strong & positive working relationships with key Business and IT stakeholders.
• Collaborate extensively with global IT team (IT Security & compliance, IT architecture, IT infrastructure, IT Engineers, IT Operations, Product /business Service Management, IT Project Portfolio Management etc., )

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: :

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

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Strong project management skills to oversee data analytics projects from initiation to completion. Experience in Data Analysis and Data Modeling. Proficiency in Project management tools like JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow
• Proven experience with leading medium – large size IT projects (500k - 2m USD) preferably in SOX compliant environment
• Project budget management & clear communication of project timelines, issues, dependencies & risks to the project team and stakeholders. Experience with Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes to integrate data from various sources
• Proficiency in Qlik Sense and Power BI for creating interactive dashboards and reports. Strong understanding of SAP Business Warehouse (BW) and Business Intelligence (BI) for data integration and reporting.
• Understanding of financial principles, accounting, and financial accounting Ability to communicate complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders effectively. Experience facilitating decision-making by identifying key stakeholders and surfacing the required information to make critical decisions

Desirable requirements:

• ITIL & SAFe Certified
• Techno/functional Experience in Process mining

Why Novartis?

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive:

Monthly pension contribution matching your individual contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary; Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis); 5-week holiday per year; (1 week above the Labour Law requirement) ; 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report; Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus Cafeteria in the amount of 12,500 CZK per year; Meal vouchers in amount of 105 CZK for each working day (full tax covered by company); Car Allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

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Accessibility and accommodation:
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, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.