ERP Assurance Consultant

390876BR

**ERP Assurance Consultant**:
Malaysia

**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 a meaningful role as an experienced ERP assurance professional and collaborate with teams from all over the world
- 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
- Identifying and analysing risks, ensuring compliance for IT enabled business processes as well as data and audit analytics
- Collaborate with IT Application Owners and Business Process Owners in helping to identify SOX relevant IT Applications and Infrastructures
- Evaluate adequacy of internal controls when implementing a new ERP system or any other technology solutions
- Provide consultation 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

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._

**Role Requirements**

Essential Requirements:

- University degree (university or college) in economics, business informatics or computer science with a demonstrated track in IT Audit or Internal Controls in any of Big 4 preferably
- You have a minimum of 4 years’ experience in auditing ERP systems (ideally SAP systems), IT environments and (automated) business process controls
- Experience in implementing IT audit mandates, including solid understanding of external audit approaches, concepts, methodology
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good team with the ability to liaise with both technical and business contacts
- You have an entrepreneurial and structured mind-set as well as a result and solution oriented approach to work
- You have outstanding communication, presentation, and business writing skills in English

**Why Novartis**:
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us

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**Division**

Finance

**Business Unit**

Global Finance

**Work Location**

Petaling Jaya

**Company/Legal Entity**

NOV MALAYSIA

**Functional Area**

Audit & Finance

**Job Type**

Full Time

**Employment Type**

Regular

**Shift Work**

No

**Early Talent**

No