Cloud & Engineering Platforms Finance Leader

GSK; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Finance Lead for Cloud & Engineering Platforms to own budgeting, forecasting and cost transparency across the technology domain. You will manage day-to-day financial operations, accruals, POs, invoices and period-end closes, while ensuring governance and standards are followed.

The role partners with Tech and Finance stakeholders, provides reliable financial inputs for reporting cycles, and drives cost optimisation across vendor and license spend, with a focus on FinOps and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Technology Management, or 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments.
• Monitor service continuity and vendor financial risk, coordinating with Procurement and contract owners.
• 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.
• 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

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Cost transparency

Vendor management

Financial governance

Financial analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor/Master in Finance

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA)

Job description

GSK is seeking a Finance Lead for Cloud & Engineering Platforms to own budgeting, forecasting and cost transparency across the technology domain. You will manage day-to-day financial operations, accruals, POs, invoices and period-end closes, while ensuring governance and standards are followed.

The role partners with Tech and Finance stakeholders, provides reliable financial inputs for reporting cycles, and drives cost optimisation across vendor and license spend, with a focus on FinOps and