Tech Finance Manager, Cloud & Engineering Platforms

GSK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Finance professional to lead budgeting, forecasting and cost governance for Cloud & Engineering Platforms. You will own the budget, track actuals, run month-end close and deliver transparent cost views to leadership.

The role partners with Cloud FinOps, Procurement and business units to challenge spend, improve efficiency and ensure compliance with central Finance standards.

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the budget, forecast and actuals, planning and tracking the cost base to the enterprise finance timetable.
• Analyse variance, risk and opportunity against plan and provide clear commentary and recommendations to leadership.
• Support business cases, funding requests and investment tracking, with spend decisions owned by the Cloud & Engineering Platforms.
• 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

Financial operations

Vendor management

Automation ideas

Financial governance

Education

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

Certified accountant or equivalent by experience

Job description

At GSK, we unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We're proud to be leading a healthcare revolution, and we're looking for people who can help us deliver on our ambition.

Role Overview

This position is accountable for the financial management of Cloud & Engineering Platforms, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations. The role owns the budget, forecast, actuals and cost transparency, runs the day-to-day financial operations, and provides accurate, consistent financial inputs into the central DPTF reporting cycles. It gives leadership a clear view of spend, forecast and financial risk, and operates under a dotted line to the Director, Business Operations for financial governance and standards.

In this role you will

Budgeting, Forecasting and Performance

• Own the budget, forecast and actuals, planning and tracking the cost base to the enterprise finance timetable.

• Analyse variance, risk and opportunity against plan and provide clear commentary and recommendations to leadership.

• Support business cases, funding requests and investment tracking, with spend decisions owned by the Cloud & Engineering Platforms.

Financial Operations

• 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.

Cost Transparency and Reporting

• 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.

Contract and Vendor Financial Management

• Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments.

• Monitor service continuity and vendor financial risk, coordinating with Procurement and contract owners.

Governance and Standards

• 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.

Cloud Budget Management

• 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

Basic Qualifications

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

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Technology Management, or a 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.

Preferred Skills

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

• Recognised accounting or cost-management credential such as CIMA/ACCA/ACA

• Experience with hardware, software and licence investment planning

• Working within financial standards and controls set by a central function.

• A demonstrable effect on forecast accuracy, unit costs, investment decisions or delivered savings.

• Familiarity with Cloud cost / FinOps.

Other Job-Related Skills/Background:

• Able to own a technology cost base end-to-end and translate complex financial detail into clear decisions for non-finance leaders.

• Commercially astute across supplier, managed service and license spend, with the judgement to test whether an investment case genuinely stacks up.

• Rigorous on data quality and accuracy, recognizing that flawed inputs undermine the consolidated financial picture.

• Confident challenging forecasts, assumptions and spend decisions constructively

• Highly organised and self-directed, delivering multiple concurrent financial cycles reliably against fixed deadlines.

• A clear, credible communicator who can hold their position with Finance and Tech stakeholders

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (COB)

Skills

Business Case Development, Business Forecasting, Data Storytelling, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, Financial Modeling, Financial Performance Improvement, Influencing Without Authority, Insight Generation, Intrapreneurship

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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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