Senior Financial Analyst (Master Data)

1 year contract at budget RM9000.

*Good to have korean languange.

Technical Skills

• Master Data knowledge (highly preferred) 
• SAP experience 
• Excel proficiency (likely intermediate–advanced) 
• Basic accounting fundamentals

Job Description / Key Responsibilities

▪ Improve the understanding of the impact of the master data and the relationship within

other areas in the company

▪ Processing master data changes within the system of record (e.g. SAP), ensuring

creation and maintenance of Customer and Finance Master Data Entities, attributes and

hierarchies (Customer Master Data, Finance and Controlling Master Data including

Pricing, Internal Orders, WBS, Fixed assets), and any other data entity as defined by the

Novartis Finance Core GFMD cycle

▪ Supporting the Team Lead

▪ Support ad-hoc global/local projects that can help the improvement of the GFMD

process Operations

▪ Support business users and create guidelines to facilitate the navigation of Master Data

Processes

▪ Ensure that applicable policies, processes, and procedures are fully documented and

consistently applied through the master data management lifecycle.

▪ Proactively challenge the status quo and comes up with making fact-based

recommendations to drive continuous improvement▪ Escalate data issues (process and/or technical) and conduct data impact assessments to

ensure data quality is maintained to agreed standards.

▪ Maintain process documentation for master data objects and share processes and

technical knowledge with team members, locally and globally

▪ Ensure that any guidelines, enhancements to existing procedures and escalation paths

are properly followed for the execution of master data management activities

▪ Work in conjunction with technical teams to resolve any technical related issue that

affects master data integrity and processes.

▪ Ensure application of agreed Novartis control procedures and actively supports to deliver

SOX certification

▪ Promote a strong and control environment, follow up on audit issues and support the

implementation of correcting measures

▪ Actively support and promote NVS V&B, the NOCC working style by being inclusive,

proactive, respectful, and results driven in alignment with Novartis values and behaviors

▪ Any other duties that may reasonably be required in line with the main duties associated

with the accountability of the position

Key Performance Indicators

▪ Delivery high quality master data by timely completing the requested changes

▪ Ensure the requests are executed with integrity and high quality: CMD or FI-CO finance

related data objects accuracy

▪ Professional and positive attitude towards change and continuous improvement

▪ 100% Compliance rate without major findings by the end of the year

▪ No unsatisfactory audit rating and timely execution of action plans

▪ Customer satisfaction of service delivery and process specific KPIs in accordance with

agreed SLAs

Job Dimensions

Impact on the organization: High impact. Poor management and maintenance of master

data can result in inaccurate reporting for Novartis group

entities.

Ideal Background

Education: ▪ University level degree in Business Administration/

Economics/Finance or IT related fields

Languages: ▪ Fluent in and English both written and spoken, excellent

communication skills

▪ Other languages are a plus

Experience & Requirement:

▪ +4-8 years of relevant experience, with good functional exposure to

finance processes (accounting, reporting, tax, treasury, forecasting )

from a finance master data management perspective

▪ Master data concept knowledge and master data application set up

▪ SAP knowledge: experience in SAP ECC and Business Warehouse,

Familiarization with SAP MDG, Qlik sense

▪ Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-national

organization

▪ Previous experience within financial shared service centers

desirable

▪ Previous experience working in projects to drive performance

improvement