Job Description

Job Purpose 

Are you energized by a finance role that allows you to build highly effective business partnerships with stakeholders, grow your network and add real value to the business and your career? 

We are looking for a Planning & Forecasting Lead with strong stakeholder management skills and finance acumen to lead the full monthly and annual planning and forecasting cycle for multiple markets, or a market of strategic importance, within the Planning & Forecasting Hub.

You will be instrumental in guiding progress to our ambition by generating high quality, efficient, globally aligned forecasts, plans and analysis that give management confidence, support decision making and feed shareholder communication, while proactively identifying opportunities and highlighting risks.

Key responsibilities 

• Own the P&F promise across your markets to drive financial Plan commitments, ensuring reliability of forecast to support market guidance and smart resource allocation (P&F Standard scope, agreed exceptions and analysis requests):
• Reporting: own P&L and Flash Sales performance commentaries and Price-Volume analysis, ensuring variances to Plan, Last Year and forecast are clearly explained across your markets
• Forecasting: lead the market forecast update including new product launches, challenge and consolidate Risks & Opportunities, and present at management review
• Planning: lead annual Plan activities, setting the plan calendar and securing submissions and sign-offs
• Analysis: prioritise and resolve ad hoc business requests, escalating trade-offs where capacity is constrained
• Partner senior in-market and hub stakeholders to reflect a realistic but ambitious outlook, with potential swings clearly articulated. Provide insightful intelligence on business performance drivers, anticipate risks and propose interventions to meet targets. Challenge the business to produce stretching yet achievable forecasts
• Create healthy accountability across your markets, ensuring promises are clear and delivered on time and in full. Navigate the cross-functional matrix and build the internal network, working closely with stakeholders, being both a reliable partner and an effective customer of the services you depend on
• Coach and develop Planning & Forecasting analysts, building modelling and analytical capability across the team, whether or not they report to you directly
• Simplify how we work and drive globally aligned ways of working. Reduce non-standard work, and continuously improve agility and efficiency in planning, budgeting and forecasting through digital fluency and the adoption of AI in standard ways of working
• Build healthy, trustworthy relationships and role model a ONE Finance mindset

Basic qualifications / Experience 

• Experience of running a full planning and forecasting cycle across multiple markets, or a market of strategic importance
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data into clear, concise commentary for senior stakeholders
• Experience of coaching or developing others
• Understanding of digital, AI, automation and financial systems and processes 

Preferred qualifications / Experience 

• University degree in Finance or Business (or equivalent)
• Ability to connect with and influence senior business stakeholders
• Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent experience

Skills

Business Forecasting, Business Reporting Tools, Critical Thinking, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Digital Fluency, Financial Controlling, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Influencing Without Authority, 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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