Tech Finance Manager, Cloud & Engineering Platforms

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.

This position is accountable for the financial management of Cloud & Engineering Platforms, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations. The role owns the budget, forecast, actuals and cost transparency, runs the day-to-day financial operations, and provides accurate, consistent financial inputs into the central DPTF reporting cycles. It gives leadership a clear view of spend, forecast and financial risk, and operates under a dotted line to the Director, Business Operations for financial governance and standards.

• 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 Cloud & Engineering Platforms.

• 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.

• 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 Cloud & Engineering Platforms operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness.

• Escalate material financial risks, variances and control issues to [domain/team] leadership and to Technology Business Operations.

• Identify and support automation and simplification of recurring financial processes.

• Lead GSK's cloud budgeting and forecasting with Business Unit Tech and Finance stakeholders.

• Consolidate, challenge and reconcile cloud forecasts, budget variances and funding requirements across Business Units.

• Manage cloud financial performance, forecast accuracy and consumption governance for the domain.

• Support cloud chargeback and cost recovery using Fin Ops allocation outputs, partnering with the Cloud Fin Ops Manager

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

• 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 cloud/technology finance.

• 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.

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

• Recognised accounting or cost-management credential such as CIMA/ACCA/ACA

• Experience with hardware, software and licence investment planning

• Working within financial standards and controls set by a central function.

• A demonstrable effect on forecast accuracy, unit costs, investment decisions or delivered savings.

• Familiarity with Cloud cost / Fin Ops.