# Financial Manager - Network & Connectivity

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

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## Description

This position is accountable for the financial management of Network & Connectivity, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations including the commercials of carrier, connectivity and managed-network services.

**Responsibilities**

### Budgeting, Forecasting and Performance

- 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 Network & Connectivity team.

### Network and Connectivity Cost Management

- Provide the financial view of network and connectivity services, including carrier, circuit and managed-connectivity commercials.

- Track hardware, software and license investment across the network estate, and connectivity unit cost.

- Support financial cases for network transformation and lifecycle investment, including the cost of not investing.

### Financial Operations

- 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.

### Cost Transparency and Reporting

- 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.

### Contract and Vendor Financial Management

- Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments including carrier and managed-network contracts.

- Monitor service continuity and vendor financial risk, coordinating with Procurement and contract owners.

### Governance and Standards

- Apply the central Technology Business Operations financial standards, definitions and controls so data is consistent and comparable.

- Ensure Network & Connectivity operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness.

- Escalate material financial risks, variances and control issues to Network & Connectivity leadership and to Technology Business Operations.

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

**Requirements**

- 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.

- 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.

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

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

## Skills

### Required
- Change Management
- Compliance Risk Management
- Dependency Analysis
- Executive Reports
- Financial Acumen
- Portfolio Performance Management
- Portfolio Prioritization
- Problem Solving
- Project Management Governance
- Shareholder Communications
- Stakeholder Management

### Nice to have
- CIMA
- ACCA
- ACA
- telecom expense management
- network cost allocation
- hardware
- software
- licence investment planning

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