Manager, Digital Finance

Job Description

Manager, Digital Finance | Novartis

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Novartis, located in India (Telangana). Novartis is a global healthcare company committed to reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. This role is crucial for transforming complex financial data into actionable business insights, driving better decisions, and shaping the future of Digital Finance within the company by simplifying complexity and challenging current practices.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person – India(Telangana)

• Mission: To simplify complexity and translate financial data into clear, actionable business insights to drive better decisions.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Qlik, SAP Business Planning and Consolidations, SAP Analytics Cloud, Python, Alteryx, Power Query

What You’ll Actually Do
• Own: Own key Digital Finance processes, ensuring accurate, timely and meaningful financial insights for business decision-making.
• Analyze: Analyse financial performance, variances, pricing, costing and margins to identify drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Validate: Validate system-generated financial outcomes by tracing data, business rules and calculation logic across multiple platforms.
• Build: Build dashboards and analytical solutions that simplify complex data and provide actionable insights to business stakeholders.
• Identify: Identify opportunities to strengthen data quality, automate reporting and improve financial processes, controls and workflows.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Professionally qualified Chartered Accountant, Master of Business Administration in Finance, Analytics or Systems, or equivalent qualification, with strong financial knowledge across profit and loss, pricing, product costing, margin analysis and performance management.
• Experience: Four to six years of relevant experience in financial analytics, business analytics, finance transformation or related areas.
• Skills: Proven ability to analyse large, complex datasets, hands-on experience building dashboards and analytical solutions using Microsoft Excel, Power BI or Qlik, working knowledge of enterprise resource planning and financial systems like SAP Business Planning and Consolidations or SAP Analytics Cloud, working-level Python capability to investigate data, and strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bonus: Experience in pharmaceuticals, consumer goods or another environment involving product costing, pricing and margin analytics, or experience with finance transformation, reporting automation or data tools such as Alteryx or Power Query.