Senior Project Lead Data & Tools

Your responsibilities include, but 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 is 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
• Strong stakeholder management
• 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 level

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