Manager, Compliance

Role Summary

Join Novartis’s dynamic Managed Markets Finance (MMF) Compliance team as a Manager, where you’ll play a key role in embedding financial and IT controls across MMF operations. You’ll help drive compliance, support risk assessments, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure accurate financial reporting and a robust controls environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal controls assessments and ensure adherence to the Novartis Financial Controls Manual (NFCM)
• Support annual risk and controls evaluations and communications
• Partner with auditors on SOX controls, audits, and reviews
• Collaborate with IT and data teams to maintain a compliant digital controls environment
• Contribute to a culture of learning, teamwork, and innovation
• Manage requests received from Auditors (Financial Controls and Compliance, KPMG, Internal Auditors, others)
• Develop knowledge of Model N and other MMF applications at a high-level to assess controls and business risk
• Review authorization limits, approvers & perform Segregation of Duties (SOD) analysis for all MMF systems (Model N, Breakaway and others)

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance or business, preferably within pharma/biotech fields preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience developing and maintaining documents and document repositories
• Ability to work collaboratively cross-functionally, particularly with Associate Director and Director levels, across the organization Communicating with internal stakeholders on monitoring and remediation
• Strong compliance orientation to ensure adherence to business process requirements along with excellent attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication skills with ability to question and gather information and insights
• MS Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft SharePoint, Teams & Planner

Skills

• Internal controls
• SOX
• Risk and controls assessment
• Stakeholder management
• Documentation and repository management
• Data and IT controls collaboration

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required