GC&I Planning & Forecasting Lead

GSK; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Planning & Forecasting Lead to oversee financial performance and reporting. This role involves preparing budgets, conducting variance analysis, and collaborating with regional teams to ensure effective financial management. The ideal candidate will possess strong financial acumen, excellent stakeholder management skills, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic environment. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and teamwork, and be part of a mission to positively impact health outcomes globally.

Qualifications

• Experience in statutory and management reporting in shared services.
• Strong skills in financial planning and inventory accounting.

Responsibilities

• Manage financial forecasting and reporting for the region.
• Prepare internal management reports for executive leadership.
• Coordinate with regional teams for budget preparation.

Skills

Financial Reporting

Variance Analysis

Budget Preparation

Stakeholder Management

Financial Planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Tools

Financial Planning Systems

Job description

The Planning & Forecasting Lead manages and is responsible for the performance of the finance team supporting the relevant Finance Directors (FD) for Region by reviewing the regional annual and monthly forecasts. They will be responsible for challenging and finalising the annual budget for GC&I region. They are also responsible to coordinate, supervise, consolidate financial forecasting information, ensuring that managerial financial reporting is performed, in time and in the forms required by Corporate guidelines, facilitating managerial decision making.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Working with Regional team to prepare in-market annual budget and communicate them to in-market finance team

• Comparing historical results against budgets and forecasts, performing variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward

• Preparing internal management reports (S&OP decks) for executive leadership and supporting their decision making

• Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from the regional VP & FD, and other stakeholders e.g. trend analysis for a product type

• Understand the link between plan & actuals, analyse the gap, challenge business for variations and define future growth plans

• Responsible to work with business partners to finalise plan/ forecasts/ management reports

• Responsible for the plan activities and draft management reports (e.g. MPR)

• Responsible for managing the core commercial cycle (CCC)

• Being the point of contact for all management reporting questions

• Be a partner to regional finance team and commercial teams.

• Coordinate & Consolidate with Market P&F Analysts for Region to finalise plan/ forecasts/ management reports

• Support in Planning activities for GCI region including MYQ, LQE, Plan, Flip, Latest estimates & Rollover. Support in presentations, offline templates as well as ad hoc analysis for Planning Cycle.

Why you? Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• Financial Certification, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or another equivalent
• Experience of statutory and/or management reporting in a model involving shared services
• Experience in financial planning, including processes related to inventory accounting

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Excellent interpretation and presentation of financial data for decision making

• Resilience and ability to work within stretched deadlines

• High attention to detail for quality results and ability to zoom out and take a wider perspective

• Excellent technical skills to navigate planning and forecasting systems

• Team first mindset and willingness to develop and grow people

• Curiosity to understand the business and willingness to drive business value

• An individual who gets energized to create opportunities by challenging the status quo, simplify and standardize global processes to create value and reduce waste

• Great relational competencies and strong stakeholder management, storytelling and presentation skills

• Willingness to have challenging conversations for the sake of great team and organisational results

• A culturally sensitive individual who is resilient to manage commitments across time zones and exited to collaborate with a diverse team in a complex environment.

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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