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.