Résumé
This role ensures having systems, documentation, compliance and reporting in place and supports continuous improvement projects to provide highly effective and efficient end-to-end processes to the Novartis divisions.
About the Role
Service Delivery:
- Operational oversight to provide services at expected levels with a clear customer focus, including handling the exceptions. Provides functional guidance to the team members. Interacts proactively within FRA and Business Functions to ensure accurate accounting, and financial reporting. Resolve all escalated issues and disputes.
- Collaborates with key stakeholders, including accounting authorities/auditors
- Serves as a Subject Matter Expert for related policies and processes
- Actively initiate and participate in improvements to sustain a highly effective and efficient process, and realize cost reduction opportunities including areas to standardize processes to optimize investments made in global ERP/SAP systems and financial services
- Support the measurement and delivery of service levels and SLA/KPI targets
- Proactively challenge the Status Quo, making fact based recommendations
- Manage day-to-day activities:
- Ensure proper document management for payment activities and fulfill NFCM & audit requirement.
- Support Master Data Maintenance (TCM related) in collaboration with Business and other functions
- Ensure proper accounting of financial transactions and accounting specific questions are well addressed and solved
- Ensure the creation and maintenance of adequate accounting records to meet the requirements of local legislation and Novartis required standards
- Perform payments activities, monitor payment error flag & payment rejection.
- Apply Banking requirement & country regulations , in addition to Novartis standard payment policy & guidelines, ensuring timely payment disbursement
- Process Improvement activities
- Analytical skills
- Good engagement and communication
Compliance
- Ensure all processes, policies and procedures are clearly defined, fully documented, in line with Novartis standards and consistent with best practices as well as aligned with the Global Blueprint (when applicable)
- Ensure compliance with Novartis Accounting Manual (NAM), Novartis Financial Controls Manual (NFCM) and regulatory requirements and implementation in internal guidelines
- Ensure application of agreed Novartis control procedures and actively support to deliver SOX certification
- Promote a strong and control environment and follow up on audit issues and implement correcting measures
People Management
- Actively support NOCC working style by being inclusive, proactive, respectful, and results driven in alignment with Novartis Values and Behaviours
- Act service oriented to enable service lines to deliver a high-performing organization and drive improvement/standard solutions while cultivating customer service focus culture
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting or any related field
- At least 3 years of experience in either Treasury Cash Management, Accounts Payable or Payment
- Experience in using SAP system
- Able to communicate fluently in English.
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: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Join our Novartis Network:
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Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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