# Financial Manager - Cloud & Engineering Platforms

**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 Cloud & Engineering Platforms, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations.

**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 Cloud & Engineering Platforms.

**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.

- 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 Cloud & Engineering Platforms operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness.

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

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

**Cloud Budget Management**

- Lead GSK's cloud budgeting and forecasting with Business Unit Tech and Finance stakeholders.

- Consolidate, challenge and reconcile cloud forecasts, budget variances and funding requirements across Business Units.

- Manage cloud financial performance, forecast accuracy and consumption governance for the domain.

- Support cloud chargeback and cost recovery using FinOps allocation outputs, partnering with the Cloud FinOps Manager.

**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 cloud/technology finance.

- 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.

**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.

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

- Familiarity with Cloud cost / FinOps.

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- CIMA
- ACCA
- ACA
- Cloud cost / FinOps

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