P2P & T&E Specialist (Japanese speaker)

Location: Malaysia About this role: The number of countries (17) supported by FRA Operations Team that delivers financial reporting and accounting services, financial compliance and process expertise in the areas of Record to Report, Request to Pay, Travel and Expense and Invoice to Cash. Key Responsibilities: • The P2P Ops Expert reviews, reconciles and implements P2P and T&E transactions, controls & Monitoring and reporting. • Ensures inquiries from the business users are resolved on timely manner. • Ensures strong quality assurance and strict adherence to Novartis policies and drives strategies with positive impact on the critical metrics as well as provides highly effective and efficient end-to-end processes to the Novartis business. Supports compliance on its area of responsibility, as well as ensures systems, documentation and proper reporting is in place. • Collaborate with internal Novartis GPO, Business Partners, Hub and ECI operational teams, as well as business stakeholders and external suppliers to enable operational excellence as well as process and system efficiency initiatives, while maintaining controls and reporting. • Implement quality of reconciliations and make sure that they follow Novartis standards (keep close communication with R2R and BPA functions). • Provide services at expected levels and important metric targets/ beyond, with a clear customer focus, including handling the exceptions. Provides functional advice to other team members when needed. Interacts proactively within NOCC and Business to ensure accurate accounting, and financial reporting. Resolve raised issues and disputes on timely manner. • Maintain good collaboration with ECI services; ensures efficiency, continuous improvements and seamless service. • Keep track of issues and provides quality RCA to identified gaps, as well as implement effective solution that eliminates the cause of the issue from the root. • Ensures all accounting policies and procedures are adhered to, including Novartis Financial Control Manual (NFCM) controls and global processes. Promote a strong control environment, follow up on audit issue, and implement corrective measures (if assigned). • Ensure Master data maintenance with high quality to provide risk-free environment from potential fraud or inaccurate /rejected payment through Call-back and AP on Behalf process

Diversity & Inclusion / EEO

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Role Requirements

Essential Requirements: • University degree (university or college) in Accounting, Finance or any related field. • 4 + years Accounting experience, with in-depth functional & process expertize in P2P / AP / T&E Process • Proficient in English and Japanese language (Chinese is added advantage /preferable) as this role will require constant communication and dealings with our business users, partners and counterparts in Australian region and Country. • Proven ability to work efficiently in a multi-national, matrix organization P2P / R2P/ AP / T&E expertize • Moderate to Advanced Expertise in P2P and T&E SAP processes and T-Codes. Exposure to projects and continuous improvement initiatives • Analytical approach and ability to understand situations, interdependencies and challenges in an integrated way. • Experience in collaborating remote 3rd party supplier relationships. Previous Experience with Reporting and Analysis – Minimum intermediate Excel skills #J-18808-Ljbffr