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Finance Specialist Lead

Location: GSK House

Flexible working available

We’re moving towards a more sustainable future with our new headquarters. With better public transport links and proximity to world-class science and technology institutions, we’re excited for our move to the vicinity of Earnshaw Street, London WC1A (“the New HQ”).by end H1 2024.

As a Finance Specialist Lead, you will provide a service that is high priority in ensuring that GSK continues to comply with internal and external regulations that encompass payments and reporting requirements of HCPs and EEs. You will be integral to the improvement of efficiencies in the Global Hubs payment processes, deliver consistent and compliant ways of working, supporting the delivery of external engagement payments.

Key Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Utilising existing systems tools and ways of working to enable effective, consistent and compliant delivery of vendor creation, vendor change, PO creation and payments requested by the HCP/EE Engagement, these include:

• Strategic lead for HCP/EE payments and operational point of contact for Stakeholders
• Maintaining and enhancing existing process to support the continued business, ensuring that both
• system and process remain fit for purpose within a changing external and internal environment.
• Defining and implementation of quality monitoring frameworks to assure senior
• management of the delivery of HCP payment and TOV activities in accordance with
• internal standards and external regulatory and legal requirements.
• Support specific core HCP Engagement payment processes for GSK Pharmaceuticals and ViiV
• Healthcare.

Further responsibilities include:

• Maintain specific core HCP/EE payment processes specific to enterprise HCP/EE requirements.
• Maintaining Hub finance policies, SOPS and guidance documents.
• Delivery of operational support services to support specific HCP/EE payments for crossborder and above country sponsored activity.
• Maintain documentation compliance and retention to required standards
• Providing tools, templates, systems to enable delivery of process to required standards.
• Assisting in the delivery of level 1 quality framework (checklists) and support of QA audits
• (level 2-3). Collating and monitoring of performance metrics/KPIs.
• Supporting a culture of continuous process improvements through regular end to end process reviews,
• Provide input into the design of appropriate training programmes and materials to support all staff training needs (e.g. e-learning modules, ways of working Navigator pages, process micro-sites, process flows, checklists).
• Provide continual development to Finance Specialist and identify gaps in training needs
• Support central (internal and outsourced) shared services in the management and delivery of HCP

Engagement activities include:

• Assist in the continued evolution and development of a hub-based Finance specialist
• knowledge centre accessible to the entire GSK organisation
• Ensuring customer queries are dealt with in a timely manner
• Ensuring payment requests are raised within the approved timelines and TOVs are
• tracked and reported accurately in finance systems.
• Monitoring service parameters including deliverables, timelines, quality and cost.
• Ensuring delivery of services according to agreed standards.
• Assisting in the review and continuous improvement of services to meet business and
• customer needs

Why you?

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

• Pharma Industry experience
• Finance process (e.g. accounts payable or receivable) experience
• Working knowledge of HCP transparency and disclosure reporting
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Knowledge of R&D clinical development and/or medical affairs
• Technical support specialists experience
• Ability to work effectively with stakeholders across multiple functions and geographies to
• deliver a consistent approach.
• Self-motivated; works as part of a highly matrixed global team.
• Experience in managing a high performance team

Why GSK?

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.

Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our R&D focus is to deliver a new generation of vaccines and medicines using the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to get ahead of infectious diseases, HIV, cancer and other immune-mediated and respiratory diseases. We do all this with a commitment to operate responsibly for all our stakeholders by prioritising Innovation, Performance and Trust.

Our bold ambitions for patients are reflected in new commitments to growth and a significant step-change in delivery over the next five years. This means more GSK vaccines and medicines, including innovative new products, will reach more people who need them than ever before.

We have long believed that building trust is key to stronger performance, helping to create value for shareholders, impact for patients and society and a reason outstanding people choose to work for and with us. That’s why being a responsible business is an integral part of our strategy. Taking action on environmental, social and governance issues is a key driver in our strategy.

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.

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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