Finance Director - AI Acceleration & Value Assurance : Digital & Tech

GlaxoSmithKline; London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharma company in London is seeking a Finance Director for AI Acceleration & Value Assurance. In this role, you will partner with senior leaders to drive AI adoption and ensure the value generated from digital investments is quantified effectively. The ideal candidate holds a professional accountancy qualification and has significant experience in finance leadership positions. This role offers a dynamic environment where strategic thinking and problem-solving skills are paramount.

Qualifications

• Hold a qualified professional accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA).
• Significant experience in finance partnering leadership roles.
• Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the finance partner to SVP of AI Acceleration.
• Drive financial performance and forecasting in AI initiatives.
• Develop and implement the AI Value Assurance Framework.

Skills

Qualified professional accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA)

Finance partnering leadership experience

Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

Tech or Transformation experience

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Experience defining KPIs

Job description

Overview

As the Finance Director - AI Acceleration & Value Assurance, you will play a pivotal role in helping to articulate and accelerate the adoption of AI across the Group. Working with the SVP for AI Acceleration, you will closely partner with them on a wide scope of topics that will ultimately help GSK move quicker to adopt new digital technologies that underpin our digital plan. You will be critical to the narrative regarding business outcomes that result from investments in digital and technological advancements (specifically Gen AI and AIML capabilities). You will be responsible for ensuring that the value generated from these investments is quantified and effectively communicated, showcasing GSK\'s commitment to innovation and excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Finance partner to the SVP of AI Acceleration: Operate as the SVP\'s CFO, engaging in all topics that will result in AI accelerated adoption across the Group (e.g. deployment approaches/ prioritisation of investments/ operating model decisions)
• Finance partner: Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure financial strategies align with the company\'s broader goals and AI vision.
• Finance lead: Be the single point of contact for finance for the function, and drive investment/ financial performance/ forecasting
• Develop and implement AI Value Assurance Framework: Design and implement a robust value assurance framework that aligns with GSK\'s strategic objectives and digital transformation goals, ensuring measurable short-term and long-term financial benefits.
• Agree performance metrics/calculations to measure the value generated from digital and tech investments in priority AI areas
• Ensure the framework is adaptable to various digital and technology initiatives across the enterprise
• Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with finance (inc FLT), technology, business units, and other stakeholders to ensure a single view on value creation
• Act as a trusted advisor to the SVP of AI Acceleration and other senior leaders, offering expert financial advice and insights on both operational and strategic decisions.
• Work with finance and non-finance teams to ensure financial aspects of AI and GenAI initiatives are well-understood and supported across the organization.

Build high trust, high challenge relationships across key senior stakeholder groups within the business units, Digital & Tech, and Finance.

Be the independent, enterprise voice in the room that helps pull multiple perspectives together to ensure the outcome is achieved. You will need to play an active leadership role, challenging and uniting multiple stakeholders.

Why you? Qualifications and Skills

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

• Required to hold a qualified professional accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA)
• Significant progressive experience in finance partnering leadership roles, where you are currently partnering on a day-to-day basis with senior non-finance stakeholders
• Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence and drive change (e.g. experience of leading on a multi-business unit program, and having a significant network across GSK\'s business units (in a partnering content
• Tech or Transformation experience is highly desirable
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in order to collaborate effectively across diverse teams
• Applied experience in defining KPIs that underpin business process outcomes

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE - 05 October 2025

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the \'cover letter\' of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role.

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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