Junior Finance Business Partner

Job description

The Global Functions Finance team is responsible for Forecasting, Planning, and Analysis across the Global Functions. Our key objectives are to drive strategic decision-making through robust reporting and insightful analytics, and to ensure strict adherence to GSK's internal and external financial processes.

As a Junior Finance Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role and be a key member of the Global Functions Finance Unit. Reporting directly to the Senior Finance Partner - Global Functions Finance, you will be responsible for coordinating month-end activities, planning cycles, and budget management for the respective Global Functions. Additionally, you will provide critical support to senior stakeholders in Global Functions Finance (GFF) by managing their budgets, actuals, and responding to ad-hoc requests.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the Senior Finance Partner in partnering and managing OPEX, CAPEX, and projects for the following Global Functions: A&A (Audit & Assurance), CGA (Comms & Government Affairs), and Corporate Functions.
• Highlight trends and analyse causes of unexpected variance; prepare monthly reports, budgets/plans, and forecasts, and provide commentary on key variances/business drivers and any required actions.
• Oversee the month-end closing process for actual financials, ensuring a thorough and accurate representation of the function’s financial standing is presented to senior stakeholders.
• Provide support to the Business and Finance stakeholders by proactively identifying opportunities and raising challenges to meet business objectives and mitigate risks.
• Provide financial and strategic advice to members of the GFF LT, senior stakeholders in CGA, A&A, and Corporate Functions, and their departments to actively contribute to the delivery of overall financial performance.
• Run the planning cycles for the respective Global Functions; work with the functions to prepare and consolidate global actuals, budgets, and forecasts - including action plans to achieve required savings, insightful commentary, and identification of risks and opportunities.
• Drive cost consciousness, increasing engagement and finance process understanding amongst budget holders.
• Assist with resource allocation and investment decision support, particularly around projects.
• Build collaborative and trusted working relationships with key stakeholders in the function and across finance to ensure successful finance partnering.
• Oversee the execution of financial controls and interaction with internal and external auditors.
• Support the digital agenda, for instance, PowerBI reporting (dashboard development, maintenance, improvements, stakeholder training), SAP Analytics Cloud, and AI tools.

Why you?

Basic qualifications:

• Degree in Finance or Business Administration.
• Experience in financial controlling, financial reporting, or financial audit roles with an understanding of management reporting and financial planning.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly, concisely, and effectively.
• Ability to navigate within a global organization across a matrix environment with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects with varying degrees of complexity and apply project management skills. Demonstrated ability to develop and successfully execute plans to achieve desired outcomes.
• Strong experience working with SAP, Power BI, and Excel, along with strong systems/IT skills.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in finance business partnering with senior business stakeholders.
• Experience in financial modelling and analysis, data analytics, budget and forecasting, variance analysis and reporting, project evaluation and planning, decision making & scenario generation/recommendation.

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