Summary

About the role:

The Head of Digital Finance Hyderabad Hub leads a cross-functional team that plays a central role in advancing the Finance transformation agenda at Novartis. By combining strong people leadership with operational excellence and data-driven decision-making, this role builds a up-to-date, product-oriented hub that improves how Finance operates and delivers value. The position offers a unique opportunity to shape a modern digital hub at the center of Finance transformation.

About The Role

Key responsibilities

• Transform the current hub into a modern digital organization with a clear vision, scalable operating model, and execution roadmap aligned to the Finance transformation agenda.
• Lead people, culture, and capability building to develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team and a future-ready organization.
• Build critical capabilities, strengthen the leadership bench, and ensure talent development and succession for key roles. Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and learning.



Champion the shift from task-based execution to product- and outcome-based ways of working.
• Embed data and analytics at the core of how the hub operates, ensuring prioritization, process improvements, and resource allocation are evidence-based and outcome-oriented. Implement a data and analytics vision for the hub: define key metrics, dashboards, and reporting standards.
• Ensure that key decisions (prioritization, process changes, resource allocation) are backed by data and insights. Promote self-service analytics capabilities and data literacy across all profiles in the hub.
• Deliver operational excellence through a scalable service management model with clear quality standards, performance indicators, issue escalation, and continuous simplification and automation of processes.
• Implement continuous improvement frameworks (e.g., Lean, Agile, DevOps-inspired practices) to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and improve s

📌 Head of Digital Finance Hyderabad Hub (India)
🏢 Novartis India
📍 India