.Job Description SummaryThe Senior Cash Management Specialist is in charge of the optimization of cash position to ensure maintenance of adequate liquidity while also managing payments, receipts and financial risk effectively for SANDOZ Group entities. The Senior Specialist acts as a role model for the Cash Management Team providing guidance, knowledge-sharing, empowerment to junior team members and continuously demonstrating strong leadership skills. The role ensures that Cash Management processes (bank accounting, reconciliation, closing, entries, validation, quality, reporting and analysis) are in place and managed in accordance with defined standards and operating procedures. This includes driving operational improvements, ownership of projects, resolution of complex issues/cases, addressing and solving operational constraints on a timely manner, leading discussions with key stakeholders and bridging operations to the TCM leadership team. The Senior Specialist should demonstrate operational excellence on the key responsibilities that a Cash Management Specialist performs, ensuring cash forecasts are timely executed, with utmost quality delivery and fully compliant. In addition, the Senior Cash Management Specialist constantly provides regular and timely reporting, analysis and KPIs understanding to support GCC Sandoz to enable improved performance, compliance and cost reduction.Key Responsibilities:Has the operational oversight to provide services at expected levels with a clear customer focus, including handling the exceptions.Provides functional guidance from TCM Cash Management perspective for business transactions. Interacts proactively within GCC and Divisions to ensure accurate cash forecasting and liquidity position.Leads collaboration with key stakeholders, including senior level cross-SANDOZ entities business colleagues and SANDOZ local entity/group financial reporting and accounting.Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for related policies and processes, supports productivity objectives and continuous improvement, process changes and leading practices to have an efficient and effective process.Drives and monitors improvements to sustain a highly effective and efficient TCM Cash Management process, and realizes cost reduction opportunities including areas to harmonize and standardize processes.Drives initiatives to improve accuracy of the short-term cash forecast.Continuous and close monitoring of closing balances, statements, limits, overdrafts facilities.Timely performance of SANDOZ internal controls relevant to Cash Management and Bank Reconciliation.Establish an effective forecasting data collection process and control mechanisms.Assist internal customers to understand all benefits of an optimized cash management operation.Coordinate with stakeholders, ongoing analysis of requirements and design of appropriate Cash Management structures and Banking landscape