Business Information Security Expert, Financial - Mergers & Acquisitions

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:  

• FM&A Information Security Due Diligence: Assess acquisition targets, rapidly understand unfamiliar technology and security environments, and identify risks that could materially affect the transaction, integration strategy or post-close risk profile.
• Risk Analysis & Decision Support: Distinguish material risks from lower-priority technical findings and translate complex issues into clear business impact, options and recommendations.
• Transaction Security Strategy: Define proportionate security priorities, mitigations and escalation requirements, balancing security objectives with transaction timelines and business realities.
• Day 1 & Integration: Determine what must be addressed before or at closing and what can appropriately be remediated post-close.
• Third-Party Risk: Identify material risks arising from suppliers and technology partners and coordinate specialist assessment or mitigation where required.
• Business Partnership: Work closely with Leadership and Technical Experts in FM&A, Information Security, Technology, Finance, Legal, Privacy, Risk and Compliance to develop practical solutions to complex transaction challenges.
• Security SME Coordination: Recognize when deeper expertise is needed, engage the right specialists and translate their findings into the broader transaction risk picture.
• Executive Communication: Explain complex security matters clearly and concisely, focusing on what matters, why it matters and what should be done.
• Continuous Improvement: Apply lessons from transactions to improve FM&A security methodologies, tools and our teams’ ways of working.

Essential Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience with strong understanding and knowledge of enterprise Information Security and Cybersecurity, with experience in compliance, governance and controls aspects.
• Ability to assess risk across applications, infrastructure, cloud, identity, data, AI tools and third parties.
• Strong analytical, investigative and critical-thinking skills, pragmatic proportionate and risk-based decision-making.
• Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar technologies, companies and business environments, and judgement to distinguish material risk from technical noise.
• Confidence making recommendations when information is incomplete, ambiguous or evolving.
• Excellent written, verbal and executive communication skills, with strong stakeholder-management and influencing capabilities.
• Ability to work autonomously while knowing when specialist expertise or escalation is required.
• Intellectual curiosity, ability to learn quickly and comfort operating in fast-moving, complex environments.

Desirable requirements:

• Experience in M&A transactions, cyber due diligence, technology integration, third-party risk, pharmaceuticals/life sciences or another regulated industry

​Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Why Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

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Accessibility and accommodation:
Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

Skills Desired