Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior Financial Reporting Specialist – Global Alliances & Licensing to join the GSK Finance Hub – Europe.
You will report to the Financial Reporting Team Leader – Global Alliances & Licensing and work closely with stakeholders at all levels, from analysts to senior management, further building both your financial reporting and business partnering capabilities.
The role is embedded in the wider GSK Corporate Finance function, with opportunities to collaborate across the organisation and take an active role in continuous improvement, digital initiatives and team-wide projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contract and Royalty Management: Manage financial aspects of your own portfolio of complex licensing agreements.
- Controls, Compliance and Audit: Ensure compliance with contractual financial reporting requirements to third parties and with internal Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) controls. Prepare feedback for internal and external audit.
- Month-End, Forecasting and Cash Flow: Lead month-end / period-end processes, analyse entries, prepare and review journals, perform balance sheet reconciliations and commentary, and fulfil associated SOX responsibilities. Prepare annual budget royalty rates, royalty income, royalty expenses and trade payables for your product portfolio. Perform cash flow reporting and analysis. Analyse actuals versus plan and prepare concise, assumption-driven variance explanations.
- Reporting, Data and Transformation: Support Finance transformation initiatives, including SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and S/4HANA reporting projects, partnering with technical and data teams to design sustainable, scalable reporting solutions.
- Business Partnering and Stakeholder Management: Develop strong business partnerships and act as a trusted advisor on financial reporting capabilities, identifying opportunities to improve business insight. Support ad-hoc analysis and decision-support requests from senior stakeholders.
Basic Qualifications:
- 3–4+ years’ finance and accounting experience in a corporate environment, including experience in a control / SOX environment.
- Deep expertise in month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting and management reporting.
- Strong knowledge of accounting and management reporting concepts, including double entry and accruals, with IFRS awareness.
- Experience with SAP (e.g. S/4HANA) and SAP Analytics Cloud or similar planning systems.
- Strong analytical, data visualisation and storytelling skills in a financial context; highly proficient in MS Excel.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in English (minimum C1), confident with senior and cross-functional stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced SAP (including S/4HANA) experience in a Finance or reporting environment is a strong asset.
- Progress towards or completion of a professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
- Experience with data analysis and visualisation platforms such as Power BI (or similar) to enhance financial storytelling and dashboards.
Work Arrangement:
This role follows a hybrid working model. You will be expected to work on-site in Poznań 2–3 days per week, be available for in-person collaboration and remotely for the remainder.
Benefits:
- Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
- Contract of employment
- Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit)
- Life insurance and pension plan
- Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
- Sports cards (Multisport)
- Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure
- Personalized learning approach
- Extensive support of work life balance
- Supportive community and integration events
- Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
- Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.