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This role is based in Barcelona, Spain. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.

Step into a pivotal role where data meets strategy. As the Data Operations Manager in Digital Finance, you'll be at the heart of transforming financial data into actionable insights. You'll lead the operational lifecycle of finance data products, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and seamless collaboration across technical and business teams. This is your opportunity to impact how Novartis leverages data to drive smarter financial decisions and deliver real impact across the organisation. About the Role
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary liaison across various stakeholders: Finance, Digital teams, and DDIT to align and operate business data product operations.




- Lead and support end-to-end operational activities of enterprise Finance data lake, lakehouse and warehouse products.
- Build knowledge of Finance processes, source systems, data flows and platform capabilities, taking on increasing ownership of defined operational areas.
- Monitor scheduled data loads, pipelines, interfaces, completeness, performance and services across monthly close, planning, forecasting and other critical Finance cycles.
- Execute and progressively automate reconciliations, control checks and data-quality rules covering accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency and integrity, with audit-ready evidence.
- Triage incidents and data-quality exceptions; capture business impact, perform first-line diagnosis, coordinate resolution and maintain transparent status communication.
- Maintain SOPs, support models, escalation paths, load calendars, dependency maps, known-error records and recovery procedures.
- Manage and support go

📌 Data Operations Manager, Digital Finance (Barcelona)
🏢 Novartis
📍 Barcelona