Treasury Cash Management Payment Specialist US

Job Description Summary

The Payment Specialist is managing third party and inter-company payment activities within the NGSC ensuring its quality, comlpliance and effectiveness.
This role supports having systems, documentation, compliance and reporting in place and supports continuous improvement projects to provide highly effective and efficient end-to-end processes to the Novartis divisions.

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

• Support Payment Manager in the definition and documentation of standard processes within his/her area of responsibility.
• Support continuous improvement programs, monitor and report respective progress.
• Support transition, project progress and critical deliverables such as knowledge transfer. Support alignment of existing processes to standards.
• Support improvement initiatives of reduction of manual payment usage.
• Support onboarding process of new team members.
• Support continuous improvement of services in quality and effectiveness in close collaboration with line managers and peers.
• Support troubleshooting of existing problems and respective permanent solutions.
• Proactively challenge the status quo and present fact based recommendation

Ideal Background

• Education: High School /Bachelor degree (college courses in accounting preferred.
• Languages: Good English (written and spoken).
• Experience: 1+ years of experience in similar position in a Shared Service Center environment.

• Detail oriented, professional attitude, reliable.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-national, matrix organization
• SAP knowledge (FI).
• Project Management exposure advantageous.
• The position requires a self-driven, diligent, compliance mindset.

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! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Skills Desired

Compliance And Controls, Continuous Process Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing Normalization, Embracing Change, Financial Accounting, Financial And Management Reporting, Rapid Problem Solving, Resilience, Tax