Global Financial Controls & Compliance Senior Manager

About the role

The Senior Manager will lead a newly created cross‑process SME role within Global Financial Controls & Compliance, driving collaboration, control design and digital transformation across the finance function.

Key responsibilities

• Shape and establish the scope, responsibilities and ways of working for the new cross‑process SME role.
• Drive stronger collaboration, knowledge sharing and best‑practice adoption across process SME teams.
• Partner with Global Process Owners, FC&C Operations, Group Methodology, IT application controls teams and external auditors to align control design, remediation and methodology requirements.
• Lead cross‑process coordination and project management activities, ensuring priorities, dependencies, decisions and actions are clearly managed.
• Strengthen IT application controls capability across the SME team, acting as an ambassador for system‑enabled controls, automated controls, workflows and configuration considerations.
• Support the evolution of the control environment in the context of S/4HANA / Lean Digital Core transformation.
• Identify opportunities to harmonise, simplify and improve global controls processes, including digital enablement, automation and more efficient monitoring.

Required profile

• 10+ years experience in finance controls, internal controls, risk, audit, compliance or related areas within a global, matrixed organisation.
• Strong understanding of Internal Control over Financial Reporting, SOX / SOX 404 requirements, control design, remediation and testing.
• Experience working with IT application controls, automated controls, system workflows, segregation of duties or finance systems control environments.
• Proven ability to work cross‑process, connect stakeholders, diagnose gaps and translate complex requirements into pragmatic ways of working.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, Digital/IT, audit, methodology and operations teams.
• Project management, coordination and change‑management capability with a track record of driving clarity across multiple priorities.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and at least one additional European language.

Required skills

• SOX 404 compliance
• Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR)
• IT application controls
• Automated controls
• System workflows
• Segregation of duties
• S/4HANA finance systems
• Digital control automation

What we offer

• Competitive annual base salary (range 1,172,150 – 2,176,850 CZK)
• Opportunity to shape a global finance control function within a leading life‑science company
• Access to Novartis’ commitment to reimagining medicine and a collaborative, innovative culture