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Job Title – Financial Planning and Reporting

Location – GSK House*, Belgium , Poland , USA

• GSK House, Brentford

We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”) by end H1 2024.

Job Purpose:

This new exciting and strategic role within the Research & Development Finance Planning, Decision Support & Analysis team will be pivotal to developing and adapting processes and systems in line with budget. As the Finance Manager you will be responsible for applying data and analytic capabilities whilst handling large sets of data from several different sources.

The role ensures that the R&D Pipeline decision makers are provided with appropriate decision support and analysis to enable effective decision making related to R&D pipeline investment and prioritisation.

It is an exciting and pivotal moment to join R&D, with the increased scrutiny on our Pipeline and ambition to move towards a best-in-class R&D organisation. Want to be part of this ambitious journey?

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Prepare for R&D’s annual Investment Board (aPIB / aRIB) meetings from a financial data collection and consolidation perspective, as well as Finance presentation for aPIB / aRIB meeting.
• Prepare for monthly Investment Board (mPIB / mRIB) meetings, working closely with R&D Portfolio and Strategy, and R&D Finance Partners.
• Manage and control central investment funds.
• Complete the Update Cycles (LQE, MYE, Plan) from a financial data collection and consolidation perspective.
• Drive process improvement and standardisation across Research / Development. A continuous improvement mindset will be greatly appreciated.
• Forecasting for long term strategic initiatives and communication of strategic options; drawing on insight and working collaboratively with RDFLT, business leaders and external consultants.
• Provide analytics to answer business-critical questions received from VP R&D Finance, SVP R&D Finance, aligned R&D FDs and FMs (e.g. questions of cross-portfolio relevance, or requiring specific analytical expertise or data access).
• Collect month end commentary from R&D FD’s; question and challenge as appropriate; prepare for monthly performance updates for the Research / Development Lead Team.
• Drive simplification in processes and communications, while operating in a time and resource constrained environment.

Why You?

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

Basic Qualification:

• Finance background
• Analytical capabilities
• Rigorous
• Ability to zoom in and out, understand the details to give easy to understand directions
• Team player
• Disruptor
• Senior stakeholder management capabilities
• Diverse professional background preferred (breath of experience)
• Finance partner capabilities
• Pro active mindset
• Accountable for impact

Closing Date for Applications: 19/05/2023 (COB)

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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