Job purpose:

Your role will be to strategically partner with the Senior Vice Presidents and Leadership Teams of Technical R&D, Clinical Lab & Assay Portfolio (CL&AP), and Strategic Business Operations (SBO) – functions that are key to tackling Viral, Therapeutic, and Bacterial research challenges. With a £267m budget and 1,400 team members, these functions are pushing the boundaries of science and technology, and you’ll play a critical role in shaping their success.

You will be the Financial Architect of Innovation: Provide expert financial counsel and leadership to ensure the efficient deployment of resources, balancing financial trade-offs while unlocking the potential of cutting-edge science. You will Drive Strategic Decisions: Shape the future of vaccine development by evaluating and articulating the value of new facilities and equipment across Belgium, the US, and Italy. Your insights will enable smarter investments, better results, and reduced costs. You will Be a Catalyst for Progress: Proactively identify and lead transformative improvements within the functions. Help these teams articulate the baseline costs and operational drivers of running world-class activities across multiple sites. You will Champion the Financial Plan: Own the annual financial planning process, monitoring progress and driving impact. Your work will directly demonstrate the value of investments in facilities, equipment, and modernization efforts. You will Collaborate Across Boundaries: Work hand-in-hand with colleagues in Manufacturing, R&D, and Asset Finance to ensure that the capabilities and capacity required to deliver new medicines and vaccines are in place.

This isn’t just another finance role – it’s a chance to lead and influence at the cutting edge of science. You will have the opportunity to work alongside some of the brightest minds in vaccine research and play an instrumental part in delivering life-saving solutions to the world. As the Finance Director for these functions, you are more than a financial manager, you will be a strategic advisor and a driving force behind organizational success. If you’re passionate about using your financial expertise to drive innovation, tackle global health challenges, and make a real difference, this is the role for you.

Your responsibilities:

• Work independently, leading Finance Partnering support to the aforementioned functions, providing strategic financial leadership, i.e., developing and executing long-term financial plans aligned with organizational goals; collaborating with senior leadership to guide strategic decisions, providing financial insights and recommendations and evaluating capital expenditures, and other strategic investments to ensure value creation

• Oversee, and lead the annual budgeting & forecasting process, i.e., lead the preparation of budgets, ensuring alignment with the organization's objectives; provide accurate and timely projections, anticipating challenges and opportunities and monitor financial performance against budgets, identifying variances and implementing corrective actions

• Lead and contribute to more robust performance monitoring & analysis with regular tracking of key performance indicators to measure financial and operational success, initiating and overseeing cost-saving initiatives while maintaining quality and operational efficiency and driving strategies to enhance operational efficiency (incl. automation)

• Assist functional leaders and leadership teams in articulating the cost drivers of their respective activities and proactively identifying systems, facilities & process optimization designed to increase productivity or operational efficiency

• Support the development of the financial and business acumen of the leadership teams of the functions by explaining key financial concepts and how their actions can contribute to improved business performance

• Drive connections with Research, MDS and other functions to optimise decision making, resource allocation and performance across R&D acting as a role model for enterprise thinking.

Additional information:

• Reporting line: Vice President Finance Vaccines R&D

• Business travel requirements: less than 10%

• People management: indirect reports

• Primary location: Wavre or Rixensart (Belgium)

• Secondary location: /

• Relocation package: no

• Application closing date: Sunday February 16th 2025 EOD CET

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting (or qualified by experience)

• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in similar Finance management / leadership roles

• Experience as a Finance Partner in the pharmaceutical sector in a business unit environment

• Track record of driving sound business decision making in relation to complex problems based on robust, impartial financial analysis.

• Track record of setting and delivering financial plans

• Fluency in English written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience as a Finance Partner in R&D

• Ability to work in a complex and fast-moving environment with multiple priorities

• Ability to connect with and influence business stakeholders at all levels in a technical environment.

• Strong skills in modelling, analysis, forecasting, strategic / scenario planning, and decision making. Some project management skills.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to bridge communications gap between finance and non-finance

• Understanding of financial systems and processes including SAP.

• Fluency in French written and spoken.

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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. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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.

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