ERP Assurance Senior Consultant

Senior Consultant ERP Assurance

The Senior Consultant ERP Assurance plays a key role in designing and assessing the efficiency of IT Application Controls across the company's IT landscape. This role is exposed to senior stakeholders at all levels, both internal and external.

About the Role

Key responsibilities:

• Co-design, improve and drive the efficiency and effectiveness of Novartis IT controls landscape.
• Play a key role as an experienced ERP assurance professional and advisor.
• Collaborate with Corporate Financial Controls and Compliance Team and focus on reviewing critical IT Application Controls relevant to financial reporting.
• 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.
• Driving the processes risk assessment with consideration of risks coming from IT environment, relevant application systems, data warehouses, IT infrastructure.
• Collaborating with IT Application Owners and Business Process Owners in helping to identify SOX relevant IT Applications and Infrastructures.
• Evaluate adequacy of internal controls when implementing a new ERP system or any other technology solutions.
• Advise on internal controls' structure by understanding the end-to-end processes, IT environment and data context to resolve the right mix of preventative and detective controls based on automation and data analytics.
• Lead a smaller team of IT assurance experts across multiple locations; guide, coach and develop junior team members.
• Collaborate with External Auditors as well as key internal stakeholders at all levels.

Requirements

University degree in economics, business informatics or computer science with a track record in IT Audit or Internal Controls in any of Big 4 preferably; overall 8+ years of relevant experience.

Key Skills

• Extensive experience in auditing ERP systems with a focus on application controls (ideally SAP systems), IT environments and (automated) business process controls.
• Experienced in managing IT assurance or audit engagement and teams, including solid understanding of external audit approaches, concepts, methodology.
• Ability to lead a team of experts across multiple locations and time zones.
• Solid skills to handle various senior stakeholders; Strong collaborator with the ability to communicate well with both technical and business contacts.
• Entrepreneurial and structured mind-set as well as a result and solution oriented approach to work.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and business writing skills in English.
• Pharma industry and shared services experience is a plus.

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.

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