Finance Director
This is a site-based role at Montrose, UK.
A truly exciting position where the successful candidate will be an Embedded business finance partner as the primary Finance interface to the business, part of the site leadership team, providing decision support, financial leadership, governance, simplification and talent management and proactively identifying internal and external opportunities and controlling resources.
The candidate will need to demonstrate strong business acumen, bringing strategic insight, and rigorous analysis; be proactive in challenging and exceptional at execution.
The role is part of a small team of embedded business partners on Site and has two direct reports.
In this role you will:
* Provide leadership and counsel to Site Director and Site Leadership team by proactively identifying opportunities and raising challenges to meet business objectives and mitigate risks.
* Ensure adherence to challenging financial targets by close financial management. Drive and support strategic transformation goals for site, embedding productivity improvements and a culture to deliver cost reduction & working capital initiatives.
* Proactively identify business opportunities and be capable of effectively assessing and proposing valid options to management, including strategic analysis.
* Champion simplification projects and implementation of best practices e.g., digital solutions.
* Accountable for risk identification and maintaining strong financial governance ensuring adherence to Finance Manual, SOX & Internal Control Framework requirements.
* Support and assess business development, due diligence, third-party deals, partnerships, business evaluation proposals.
* Leadership/oversight of all key finance deliverables – month end, financial planning, forecasts, standard setting.
* Responsible for quarterly judgment report decision making and year-end management certification, evaluation (not reporting), and nonstandard financial analysis and management reporting.
CLOSING DATE for applications: 7th February 2025
Required experience and skills:
* Professional finance qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, or local equivalent).
* Broad experience within GSK across a range of roles within Finance.
* Demonstrated financial knowledge of modelling, analysis, evaluation, forecasting, strategic planning, and decision making.
* Broad knowledge of the pharmaceuticals business, accounting and finance, strategic and business planning, and budgeting.
* Experienced working with senior leaders (VP and SVP).
Preferred experience and skills:
* Experience with the manufacturing and supply environment and systems, including cost accounting experience.
* Ability to effectively use negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
* Understanding of systems and processes as they affect the financial results (Bison, SIERA, SAP, etc).
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Ability to work with and influence a variety of stakeholders in varying roles, locations and cultures.
* Autonomous and comfortable using own initiative.
We make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 2.3 billion packs of medicines and doses of vaccines in 2023.
If you are interested in joining us, find out more:
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent.
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