Tech finance manager

At GSK, we unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We’re proud to be leading a healthcare revolution, and we’re looking for people who can help us deliver on our ambition.

• Own the budget, forecast and actuals, planning and tracking the cost base to the enterprise finance timetable.
• Analyse variance, risk and opportunity against plan and provide clear commentary and recommendations to leadership.
• Support business cases, funding requests and investment tracking, with spend decisions owned by the Network & Connectivity team.
• Provide the financial view of network and connectivity services, including carrier, circuit and managed-connectivity commercials.
• Track hardware, software and license investment across the network estate, and connectivity unit cost.
• Support financial cases for network transformation and lifecycle investment, including the cost of not investing.
• Run financial operations, including accruals, reclasses, cross-charges, purchase orders, invoices and payment follow-up.
• Support month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for the enterprise finance timetable.
• Ensure financial transactions and records are accurate, complete and processed within control requirements.
• Provide cost transparency, including vendor, contractor and unit-cost views at the level leadership needs.
• Maintain a financial view of headcount, covering budgeted positions and vacancies.
• Provide accurate, standardised financial inputs into the central DPTF reporting cycles run by Technology Business Operations.
• Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments including carrier and managed-network contracts.
• Monitor service continuity and vendor financial risk, coordinating with Procurement and contract owners.
• Apply the central Technology Business Operations financial standards, definitions and controls so data is consistent and comparable.
• Ensure Network & Connectivity operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness.
• Escalate material financial risks, variances and control issues to Network & Connectivity leadership and to Technology Business Operations.
• Identify and support automation and simplification of recurring financial processes.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Technology Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Professionally qualified accountant (or qualified by experience).
• Significant experience in finance supporting a technology platform, domain or infrastructure function
• Owning budgets, forecasts, actuals and cost transparency for a technology function, domain or business unit.
• Running day-to-day financial operations - accruals, purchase orders, invoices and period-end close - against a fixed finance calendar.
• Turning vendor, contractor and unit-cost data into insight that explains and challenges spend.
• Handling supplier, managed service and contract spend, renewals and financial commitments.
• Building investment cases and delivering measurable cost reductions across supplier, licence and infrastructure spend.
• A demonstrable effect on forecast accuracy, unit costs, investment decisions or delivered savings.
• Working within financial standards and controls set by a central function.
• Able to own a technology cost base end-to-end and translate complex financial detail into clear decisions for non-finance leaders.
• Commercially astute across supplier, managed service and license spend, with the judgement to test whether an investment case genuinely stacks up.
• Rigorous on data quality and accuracy, recognizing that flawed inputs undermine the consolidated financial picture.
• Confident challenging forecasts, assumptions and spend decisions constructively
• Highly organised and self-directed, delivering multiple concurrent financial cycles reliably against fixed deadlines.
• A clear, credible communicator who can hold their position with Finance and Tech stakeholders
• Будет плюсом: Recognised accounting or cost-management credential such as CIMA/ACCA/ACA; Experience with telecom expense management or network cost allocation; Experience with hardware, software and licence investment planning; Knowledge and experience of central finance standards and controls

• We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.