Financial IT Compliance Senior Specialist

Job Description Summary

A member of a global team of IT assurance experts who play a critical role in designing and assessing efficiency of IT Application Controls across the company’s IT landscape. This team plays a pivotal role and is exposed to senior stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• You will play an important role as an experienced ERP assurance professional

• You will be part of a global team of IT Application Controls experts

• Provide assurance in the areas of ERP systems (e.g. SAP, others)

• Identify process and IT controls improvement opportunities and drive implementation

• Test IT application controls – Reports, Interfaces, Fully Automated Controls etc., ensuring SOX compliance and reliability

• Participate in IT risk assessments

• Collaborating with IT Application Owners and Business Process Owners in helping to identify SOX relevant IT Applications and Infrastructures

• You will support identification and testing of IT application controls when implementing a new ERP system or upgrades

• You will advise on ITACs structure by understanding the end-to-end processes, IT environment and data context to determine the right mix of preventative and detective controls based on automation and data analytics

• You will collaborate with teams from all over the world

Essential Requirements:

• University degree (university or college) in economics, IT or computer science with a demonstrated track in IT Audit or Internal Controls in any of Big 4 preferably

• You have a minimum of 4 years’ experience in auditing ERP systems (ideally SAP), IT environments and IT application controls

• A strong understanding of external audit approaches, concepts, methodology, remediation design

• Strong team player with the ability to liaise with both technical and business contacts

• Cross Cultural Experience.

• Project Management experience.

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); Public Transportation allowance; MultiSport Card. Find out more about Novartis Business Services: https://www.novartis.cz/

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

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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.

Skills Desired

Building Effective Teams, Compliance And Controls, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, E2E Process View, Employee Engagement, Esg Data Management, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Interpersonal Savvy, People Development, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving