Tech finance manager digital workplace

GSK; Greater London; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Finance professional to lead the financial management of Digital Workplace Experience. You will own budgets, forecasts, and actuals, ensuring cost transparency and alignment with the enterprise finance timetable across devices, licenses, and workplace services.

The role requires a Qualified Accountant or equivalent experience, and proven ability to translate complex financial detail into concise decisions for non-finance stakeholders. Flexible working culture encouraged.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Technology Management, or related field.
• Professionally qualified accountant (or qualified by experience).
• Significant experience in finance supporting a technology platform, domain or infrastructure function.

Responsibilities

• Own the budget, forecast and actuals, planning and tracking the cost base against agenda.
• Provide the financial view of digital workplace services, including devices, collaboration and productivity tooling.
• Run financial operations: accruals, POs, invoices, period-end close.
• Govern contract spend, renewals and financial commitments including device, license and workplace-service contracts.
• Provide cost transparency and commentary to leadership; escalate material financial risks.

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Finance or related field

Qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA/ACA) or equivalent

Job description

Описание

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. This position is accountable for the financial management of Digital Workplace Experience, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations including the commercials of workplace services, devices and collaboration tooling. 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.

Задачи

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 Digital Workplace Experience team. Provide the financial view of digital workplace services, including devices, collaboration and productivity tooling, and end-user services. Track hardware, software, license and device investment across the workplace estate, and per-user or per-device unit cost. Support financial cases for workplace transformation and lifecycle investment, including the cost of not investing. 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 including device, license and workplace-service contracts. 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 Digital Workplace Experience operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness. Escalate material financial risks, variances and control issues to Digital Workplace Experience leadership and to Technology Business Operations. Identify and support automation and simplification of recurring financial processes.

Требования

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 finance supporting a technology platform, domain or infrastructure function. 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. 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

Будет плюсом

• 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
• Experience with workplace, device and licence commercials and cost management
• Experience in per-user unit-cost reporting

Условия

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.