# Financial Planning and Forecasting Analyst

**Company**: GSK
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are currently looking for a Financial Planning and Forecasting Analyst who will provide planning and forecasting support to either the Planning and Forecasting Lead or in-market FD.

You will be responsible for challenging and finalizing the monthly and annual forecasts for the market, as well as preparing monthly management reports for the in-market FD to evaluate performance.

Key Responsibilities:

- Working with the Corporate team to prepare in-market annual budget and communicate them to in-market finance team

- Creating, updating, and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market

- Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward

- Preparing internal management reports (DRM decks) for executive leadership and supporting their decision making

- Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams or the FD

- Understanding the link between plan and actuals, analyzing the gap, challenging business for variations, and defining future growth plans

- Working with business partners to finalize plans/forecasts/management reports

- Managing the core commercial cycle

- Being the point of contact for all management reporting questions

- Participating and supporting continuous improvement initiatives

- Driving Planning and Forecasting process improvement for markets and scaling to the KL Hub

Key Qualifications:

- Professional finance qualifications (e.g., CIMA, ACCA, ACA, CPA) preferred, with minimum 3-5 years of relevant working experience

- Proven experience in Planning and Forecasting roles within the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences industry

- Excellent interpretation and presentation of financial data for decision making

- Resilience and ability to work within stretched deadlines

- High attention to detail for quality results and ability to zoom out and take a wider perspective

- Strong problem-solving skills driven by curiosity

- Proficient in use of IT and software/systems (Power BI will be an advantage), especially Excel skills

## Skills

### Required
- Business Reporting Tools
- Critical Thinking
- Data Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Digital Fluency
- Financial Controlling
- Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Influencing Without Authority
- Stakeholder Management

### Nice to have
- Power BI

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