Commercial Finance Analyst

Description

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

This role incumbent leads and manages the end to end expense planning processes across Global Speciality GPS & Medical (budget of ~£180m) and has specific responsibility to partner early pipeline Commercial and Medical Portfolio teams.

Along with ad-hoc analysis and project involvement, the key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Partnering with the Portfolio teams (Commercial Ops & Strategy and Portfolio strategy) teams (~£21m budget responsibility), including monthly meetings with team leads to provide financial management of variance to budget.
• Providing financial management for the Speciality Care expenditure, including driving the Plan/LQE/MYE/FC1 setting process and the consolidation.
• Providing monthly commentary for achieving Plan/MYE/FC1/LQE highlighting key gaps and questions on Headcount, Variable Spend and Evidence Generation.
• Support FP and VP in overall financial control of expense budgets, taking direction to work up options to reallocate funding to areas of greatest need
• Design and distribute monthly reports to Speciality Care including flash sales report, flash sales commentary, expenditure reports and summary portfolio deck.
• Prepare deck for Speciality Care Leadership Team on monthly performance to focus leaders on key drivers of the business.
• Keeping the headcount tracker up to date and working with HR, finance partners to make any changes. Support FP and VP in financial control of headcount costs, explaining assumptions, deviations from plan and options to close gaps
• Working cross functionally with the medical team, manage the financial process within the data generation planning process in preparation for the annual Medical Review Board for decision making on funding for new data generation studies.
• Working with the KC and other Finance Partners to ensure all month end activities and reports are delivered on time, efficiently and effectively.
• Manage submissions into key processes and systems e.g. SAC
• Ad hoc Sales and Profitability analysis, including developing insights and presentations for senior management.

• Manage headcount, variable and evidence generation expenditure budgets partnering with the commercial and medical teams.
• Drive strategic discussions with the teams to understand the pipeline stages, governance timelines and plan for resourcing the assets for success.
• Evaluate the risk profile and recommend resourcing to VP Finance
• Educate and influence business partners to plan over a longer time horizon to prepare the organisation for the evolution of the portfolio.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics etc. or equivalent experience
• CIMA/Other Professional Accounting Qualifications
• Good experience in Finance or budget management roles
• Significant experience with senior stakeholder engagement, including up to VP level

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

• Experience applying financial analysis to support business decisions, including evaluation of risks, investment options, and trade-offs.
• Ability to work across time zones (US, UK and Europe)
• Good knowledge of GSK Finance standards, systems and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to apply strategic thinking, solve complex problems…