• 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 [domain/team] 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

Why you?

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• 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.

• 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.

• Able to own a technology cost base end-to-end and translate complex financial detail into clear decisions for non-finance leaders.
• Commercially astute across supplier, managed service and license spend, with the judgement to test whether an investment case genuinely stacks up.
• Rigorous on data quality and accuracy, recognizing that flawed inputs undermine the consolidated financial picture.
• Confident challenging forecasts, assumptions and spend decisions constructively
• Highly organised and self-directed, delivering multiple concurrent financial cycles reliably against fixed deadlines.
• A clear, credible communicator who can hold their position with Finance and Tech stakeholders

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (COB)

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Skills

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

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.

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