Description
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.
This position is accountable for the financial management of Digital Workplace Experience, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations including the commercials of workplace services, devices and collaboration tooling. 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.
In this role you will
- 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 Digital Workplace Experience team.
- Provide the financial view of digital workplace services, including devices, collaboration and productivity tooling, and end-user services.
- Track hardware, software, license and device investment across the workplace estate, and per-user or per-device unit cost.
- Run financial operations, including accruals, reclasses, cross-charges, purchase orders, invoices and payment follow-up.
- 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.
- Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments including device, license and workplace-service contracts.
- Apply the central Technology Business Operations financial standards, definitions and controls so data is consistent and comparable.
Basic Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Skills
- 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.
- Experience with workplace, device and licence commercials and cost management.
- Experience in per-user unit-cost reporting.
Other Job-Related Skills/Background:
- 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