R&D Financial Costing

Are you energized by a highly visible finance role that allows you to influence senior stakeholders and shape highly effective business partnerships? If so, the R&D Financial Costing & Analytics Manager role could be an excellent opportunity to explore.

As the Financial Costing & Analytics Manager you will oversee R&D based cost allocation methodologies as related to project prioritization, government mandated submissions, government tax credits, intellectual property cross charging and industry and government-based survey submissions. You will also be responsible for managing oversight of financial reporting requirements for R&D Finance across both Power BI & SAC platforms. Your role will involve collaborating closely with various business, and finance teams to navigate various requirements and regulations association with these different activities and advancing capabilities.

In this pivotal role, you will lead the charge in understanding the impact of changing cost base and updated strategies, changing Functional Structures to understand the impacts to both project based and overall portfolio FTE related costs. This includes quarterly and annual reviews of actual to plan costs for costs related to R&D resource allocations to R&D, ViiV, Global Health and Global Franchise markets. You will deliver insights and analysis that will shape periodic FTE cost related SLA's and annual contract reviews. Your expertise will be instrumental in accelerating process changes, mitigating risks, and clarity in understanding changes in FTE costs over time.

In addition, you will find yourself working in a collaborative setting and using your partnership skills to navigate and harmonize priorities across advancing the delivery of standard deployed and enhanced reporting to meet reporting needs across both portfolio and functional lenses.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• To provide financial leadership across costing and FTE related methodologies. This includes role-based calculations and rates across all directorates and divisions to support project evaluations
• Work independently and across your team, leading key decision analytics support to the various parts of the R&D organization and across the Finance Partnering teams that support them.
• Provide support as the first point of contact for key deliverables for the areas under his/her responsibility on all financial matters and submissions internally and externally
• Lead the finance calculations, methodologies and finance data collection aspects to support annual, periodic, and regular requests for analysis and information across many internal, and where supported, external channels
• Understand the impacts of tracking progress of planned spend to actual project spend over time, across project phases, and across and within project milestones
• Accountable for the integrity and accuracy of financial reporting related to his/her areas of responsibility and accountabilities
• Drive process improvements by assessing value of process and system capabilities and identifying opportunities to use newer technologies to deliver efficiency
• Fulfill impact of accounting and tax obligations (including impact assessments of legislative changes) on processes and methodologies and ensure stable IP processes with the business to ensure timely and accurate data delivery (including internal and external documentation)
• Build relationships across the business with strong stakeholder management, proactively gathering feedback and designing ways of working to assist with better business support models
• Direct management of (3) finance analysts, actively supporting growth and development
• Manage a team, in line with the GSK Values & culture, drive individual & team performance, ensure timely & quality recruitment, develop / coach / mentor the team members and create strong succession plans for key roles while fostering engagement and motivation in the team

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance or Accounting
• Experience in modelling, analysis, forecasting, strategic / scenario planning, and decision-making tools
• Experience working with senior client groups with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Organization and prioritization skills, along with ability to work with tight and conflicting deadlines
• Interpersonal and partnership skills and communicate regularly and effectively
• Experience working in a large global organization
• Healthcare/ Pharmaceutical Industry knowledge
• Understanding of financial systems and processes including SAP/CERPS, Hyperion, Power BI
• Track record of employing highly sound technical and business judgment in solving complex business problems with high risk & impact to the organization
• Demonstrated business skills with integrity and independent judgment to understand and identify the underlying business drivers
• Experience working in a global organization across a matrix environment and in cross-functional teams

What we offer:

• Competitive salary, annual bonus plan
• Healthcare benefits (medical care, life insurance, pension scheme, sports card, recreation allowance, social fund, preventive healthcare services)
• Financing of ACCA/CIMA certifications
• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
• Supportive & friendly working environment
• Corporate culture based on our values: patient focus, integrity, respect and transparency

Inclusion & Diversity at GSK:

As an employer committed to Diversity and Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at pl.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

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