ERP Assurance Manager

About the Role

Location: Malaysia
About this role: Novartis being a public company and SEC registrant has established internal control system in order to provide reasonable assurance to the Group’s management and Board of Directors regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation and fair presentation of its published consolidated financial statements.
You will be part of the team who’s main objective is to assess effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting by using the criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). Key Responsibilities: • You will play an important role as an experienced ERP assurance professional
• You will work as part of our Corporate Financial Controls and Compliance Team and focus on reviewing critical IT controls relevant for financial reporting from General IT Controls through to IT Application Controls and critical system functions
• You will provide assurance in the areas of ERP systems (e.g. SAP, others), particularly security, critical transactions, access and process controls, system operations, information coming out of various information systems
• You will be key in identifying and analysing risks, ensuring compliance for IT enabled business processes as well as data and audit analytics
• You will be supporting the processes risk assessment with consideration of risks coming from IT environment, relevant application systems, data warehouses, IT infrastructure
• You will be collaborating with IT Application Owners and Business Process Owners in helping to identify SOX relevant IT Applications and Infrastructures
• You will evaluate adequacy of internal controls when implementing a new ERP system or any other technology solutions
• You will advice on internal controls structure by understanding the end-to-end processes, IT environment and data context to determine the right mix of preventative and detective controls based on automation and data analytics
• You will help us prevent controls breakdowns with system changes / within complex systems
• You will collaborate with teams from all over the world

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