# Enterprise Systems Business Operations, Associate Director

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: India
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Enterprise Systems Business Operations, Associate Director leads the financial management, operational performance and business rhythm of the Enterprise Systems function.

In partnership with the Enterprise Systems Finance Business Partner, the Associate Director builds the cost transparency, data quality and support that turn financial and operational data into actionable insight leadership relies on for business decisions, resource planning and continuous improvement across the Enterprise Systems portfolio.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Own the Enterprise Systems budget and forecast cycle, running the monthly and quarterly financial cycles to the enterprise finance timetable.

- Serve as the primary finance and operational business partner to Enterprise Systems leadership and product teams.

- Own the consolidated view of Enterprise Systems spend across run, change, and invest categories.

- Develop cost transparency for Enterprise Systems.

- Drive the operational management of the Enterprise Systems vendor and contract portfolio.

- Lead finance reporting, data quality and controls across Enterprise Systems budgeting, procurement and resource management.

- Partner with Enterprise Systems Leadership and HR Business Partners to manage headcount planning, contractor and contingent worker governance.

- Initiate continuous improvement in financial processes, reporting tools, and operational workflows within the Enterprise Systems function.

- Run the operating rhythm for Enterprise Systems.

- Be the subject matter expert on Enterprise Systems financial processes, tooling, and data.

- Be a proactive user of approved AI tools and analytics.

**Required Skills & Qualification:**

- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, accounting, business, economics or information systems.

- 15+ years in technology finance, finance business partnering, business operations or management roles.

- Experience running monthly and quarterly financial cycles.

- Experience owning technology budgets and forecasts.

- Experience bringing financial and operational data from several teams into one reliable view.

- Experience building cost transparency reporting.

- Experience working with financial controls, audit requirements and procurement processes.

- Experience acting as a trusted partner to senior leaders.

- Familiarity with automation or simplification of recurring reporting.

**Preferred Skills:**

- Clear communication and influencing skills.

- Strong analysis and modelling skills.

- Well organised, able to deliver recurring cycles reliably.

- Proactive and commercially minded.

- Comfortable working within governance, compliance and internal control frameworks.

## Skills

### Required
- Anaplan
- ApptioOne
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Automation
- Budget Planning
- Data Analysis
- Finance Business Partnering
- Financial Governance
- Financial Operations
- Forecasting
- IT Financial Management
- Microsoft Power Business Intelligence (PBI)

### Nice to have
- Clear communication and influencing skills
- Strong analysis and modelling skills
- Well organised
- Proactive and commercially minded
- Comfortable working within governance, compliance and internal control frameworks

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