Senior Finance Partner, Global Vaccines Inventory

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Site Name: Belgium-Wavre
Posted Date: Jul 12 2021

Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a Global Finance Organization with a focus on reporting and analysis? If so, this is the role for you.

• Lead transversally all financial aspects of Inventory & Write Offs (WO) and E2E Vaccines Supply Chain related topics within the global Vaccines Finance organization.
• Provide finance leadership for global Supply Chain operations; (1) lead financial planning and reporting activities / processes for Inventory & WO, (2) embed the right governance to realize business objectives, and (3) provide business oversight and sound decision-making at GSK Vaccines level.
• This position is critical for the overall success of the Vaccines business, to ensure right business decision regarding working capital within the Inventory reduction ambition.
  
  

Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following

• Drive and support the preparation of operational and strategic governance meetings for Inventory & WO: Monthly Inventory & WO steerco, CFO reviews, etc to ensure that the right business decisions will be taken.
• Drive & lead the Monthly E2E WO closing preparation providing right insights gather from different stakeholders (Finance Lead, Global Supply Chain, Brand teams, Operations, etc), including been responsible for quarterly judgment reports presented to Finance Lead.
• Lead design, implementation and execution of the financial planning process for Supply Chain operations, in cooperation with the business, to reach alignment in Inventory & WO between sales, operations planning, and related financials (Budget/Update)
• Drive the application of existing Enterprise level financial strategy, processes and procedures; translate these into Vaccines financial strategy, processes and procedures for Supply Chain operations to ensure the correct trade-offs are made at GSK Vaccines level between short term profit delivery and longer-term investment.
• Provide financial leadership, coaching, council and support to Supply Chain Analytics team.
• Work across Supply Chain operations to identify cost drivers and implement initiatives to deliver efficiency savings, such as driving ETE Manufacturing performance and reductions of inventory, write-offs, batch release lead times, re-volume and the value of quarantined goods.
• Drive the development and transfer of knowledge from the own expertise throughout the organization to enable GSK to reach its objectives, and ensure continuous improvement and process excellence.
• Build and sustain a professional network both inside and outside of the organization that contributes to the realization of GSK-wide interests; identify and act upon high-level trends and opportunities within the network and be an advocate for GSK to a variety of stakeholders from the own expertise
• When requested, deputize for the Supply Chain Finance Director, Manufacturing in governance meetings related to Inventory & WO.
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

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

• University degree (BSc) or equivalent in Finance / Accounting
• Minimum of 8+ years professional finance experience
• Exposed to lead financial aspects of the inventory and/or financial inventory process
• Demonstrated experience in financial management & planning, and knowledge of Supply Chain and finance processes
• Fluent English
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Excellent finance partnering skills
• Excellent influencing skills across all levels in the organization and an ability to recognize cultural diversity
• Excellent communication skills – make complex simple
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent team player in all teams within a matrix
• Significant experience of working at a manufacturing site or commercial entity in a senior finance role
• Demonstrated experience in Matrix management
• Demonstrated experience with senior stakeholder management
• Demonstrated experience of providing management insight and value-added analysis
• Demonstrated complex decision support across a broad range of issues / proposals
• French is an asset
  
  

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

As GSK Focuses On Our Values And Expectations And a Culture Of Innovation, Performance, And Trust, The Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate The Following Capabilities

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork.

• Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
• Sustaining energy and well-being
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
• Budgeting and cost-consciousness
  
  

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Our goal is to be one of the world’s most innovative, best performing and trusted healthcare companies. We believe that we all bring something unique to GSK and when we combine our knowledge, experiences and styles together, the impact is incredible. Come join our adventure at GSK where you will be inspired to do your best work for our patients and consumers. A place where you can be you, feel good and keep growing.

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