Manager, Digital Finance

Key Responsibilities

·    Own key Digital Finance processes, ensuring accurate, timely and meaningful financial insights for business decision-making.

·    Analyse financial performance, variances, pricing, costing and margins to identify drivers, risks and opportunities.

·    Validate system-generated financial outcomes by tracing data, business rules and calculation logic across multiple platforms.

·    Translate Finance requirements into clear analytical frameworks and technology-enabled solutions with Information Technology teams.

·    Build dashboards and analytical solutions that simplify complex data and provide actionable insights to business stakeholders.

·    Identify opportunities to strengthen data quality, automate reporting and improve financial processes, controls and workflows.

·    Partner across Finance, business and technology teams to explain outcomes clearly and drive continuous improvement.

Essential Requirements

·    Professionally qualified Chartered Accountant, Master of Business Administration in Finance, Analytics or Systems, or equivalent qualification.

·    Strong financial knowledge across profit and loss, pricing, product costing, margin analysis and performance management.

·    Four to six years of relevant experience in financial analytics, business analytics, finance transformation or related areas.

·    Proven ability to analyse large, complex datasets and interpret financial outcomes generated across multiple systems.

·    Hands-on experience building dashboards and analytical solutions using Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Qlik or comparable tools.

·    Working knowledge of enterprise resource planning and financial systems, such as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation or SAP Analytics Cloud.

·    Working-level Python capability to investigate data, trace business rules and explain system-generated financial results.

·    Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, translating complex financial and technical concepts into clear business insights.

Desirable Requirements

·    Experience in pharmaceuticals, consumer goods or another environment involving product costing, pricing and margin analytics.

·    Experience with finance transformation, reporting automation or data tools such as Alteryx, Power Query or similar technologies.

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.

Accessibility and accommodation

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