Location: Basel, Switzerland;
The role will act as liaison between Finance, DDIT, and Digital Finance teams, leading projects on key finance processes for global & headquarter core applications that support Novartis financial planning & reporting.
About the Role
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
* Act as the primary connection across Finance, DDIT and Digital Finance teams to ensure objectives alignment.
* Own and drive the end-to-end delivery. This includes planning, executing, and closing the project, including establishing the operational setup (process and technical) with minimal guidance.
* Identify and qualify new demand with overall responsibility for steering proposals through the early phases of approval.
* Understand the processes, plans, objectives, drivers, and issues related to the business capability, as well as the appropriate “non-core” policies and regulations, such as data management policies.
* Understand the project requirements and involve the right cross-functional team members at the right time.
* Significantly contribute and drive multi-year, large-scale project roadmaps for key finance processes on global & headquarter core applications with significant impact on Novartis financial results.
* Ensure digital technology impact analysis is provided to business.
* Communicate complex results into simple conclusions that will empower leadership to drive action based on the insights you derive.
* Effectively engage with business stakeholders and translate business requirements into detailed project requirements.
* Define business acceptance criteria and test functionalities of developed features to ensure they meet business needs.
* Foster best-in-class reporting and analytics solutions by understanding and anticipating business needs and user experience (UX).
What you'll bring to the role:
* Relevant degree (e.g. Business, Finance), or demonstrated comparable experience in business, management or engineering.
* Proficiency in English required – spoken & written; other languages are an asset.
* Ability to effectively engage with business stakeholders and translate business requirements into detailed requirements which can be taken further for system implementations.
* Demonstrated Project Management experience – certification in project management is desirable.
* Strong process orientation.
* Proven project/product management experience, including planning, executing, and closing projects, as well as managing teams and resources.
* Experience in driving change of business processes based on technological solutions.
* Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
* Ability to identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies, reprioritizing if necessary.
* Experience working in multi-functional settings, across multiple organizational levels.
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