Associate Director

Be You at GSK

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Job Purpose

The role will be a part of the Close and Control (C&C) Global Process Owner (GPO) team with a focus on deployment of Smart Close solution in C&C space across all Business Units in GSK.

You will be accountable to drive the design, deployment and adoption of Smart Close solution to orchestrate and automate Period End Close (PEC) activities. You will ensure the consistency of Smart Close template across business unities to maintain 60/20/20 model (Global/Regional/Local activities). You will assess and articulate business requirements, analyze design options, seek and assess simplification opportunities where business case exists. You will drive the business towards common, standardized global and automated process.

The role will be part of C&C GPO, cooperating closely with the Finance HUB's C&C team, C&C GPO, GP&T, FRMC and other business and support functions.

Role description:

• Develop & run Blackline Smart Close Template Governance & integrity maintenance. Drive adoption of 60/20/20 model to ensure effective template design
• Partner with GSK Ops Transformation Lead & C&C Hub Leads to identify automation opportunities on local and global level. Capture, review, prioritize and ensure delivery of automation agenda
• Partner with C&C GPO PEC Process Owner to ensure robust PEC process design and adoption across organization
• Develop and present (or support the presentation of) proposed Blackline's solution template change to the relevant governance bodies for review and approval
• Ensure that global Blackline's solution template documentation (i.e. GSOPs and BPSDs) is accurate and up-to-date
• Own Smart Close health measures (performance, integrity, controls, effort savings vs manual way of working)
• Build external network, including supplier & other Blackline's customers, to monitor market trends, leverage best practices and benchmark solutions
• Spread the knowledge and best practices across the HUBs and Blackline users

Basic requirements:

• Master's degree in Finance/Finance Analysis/IT or other similar
• Experience in Smart Close (or equivalent) environment deployment
• Experience in R2R/Controlling space would be an asset
• Fluent English (minimum C1)
• Knowledge of MS Office tools (especially MS Excel)
• Knowledge of SAP and supporting components
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience

Preferred additional requirements:

• Continuous improvement mindset, problem-solving
• Project framework certification would be an asset (PMI, Prince, Agile)
• Experience in root cause analysis
• Experience in a SOX/audit environment
• Knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4Hana and FC
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly within a matrix team
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders
• Knowledge of systems that allows checking the processes/creating reports/effectively extracting the data

Inclusion at GSK:

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment- to discuss your needs.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment- to discuss your needs.

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