Senior Consultant ERP Assurance

Job Description Summary

-To provide expert advice to superiors for a sub-area within FSC and related key activities; to ensure compliance with external and internal accounting reporting requirements in a timely and accurate manner.

Job Description

About the role: Novartis being a public company and SEC registrant has established SOX internal control system in order to provide reasonable assurance to the Group’s management and Board of Directors regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of its financial statements.

The Senior Consultant ERP Assurance is 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.

Key responsibilities:

• 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 resolve right mix of preventative and detective controls based on automation and data analytics
• You will collaborate with teams from all over the world

Essential Requirement:

• University degree (university or college) in economics, business informatics or computer science with a demonstrated track in IT Audit or Internal Controls in any of Big 4 preferably
• A minimum of 4 years’ experience in auditing ERP systems (ideally SAP systems), IT environments and (automated) business process controls
• Experience in performing IT audit or review engagements (focus on ITACs), including a solid understanding of external audit approaches, concepts, methodology
• Good teammate with the ability to collaborate closely with both technical and business contacts
• An entrepreneurial and structured attitude as well as a result oriented and collaborative approach to work
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and business writing skills in English

Desirable Requirements:

• Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders.
• Critical Thinking.
• Process Optimization.

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

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

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

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