Senior Finance Partner - General Medicine
GSK · Poznan Pastelowa, Poland
Reporting to the Regional Finance Director, the role of General Medicines Senior Finance Partner is an opportunity to join the Europe One Finance community and drive performance across our region.
In this role, you will act as the Commercial Senior Finance Partner for the General Medicines portfolio across the European Markets and will be directly involved in driving business performance and supporting decision-making with critical financial insights.
Your mission is to be a true business partner, providing a strong voice in challenging and influencing decision-making. This involves interfacing with commercial teams and regional finance, providing financial analysis and insights and identifying opportunities for optimization and growth. You will be responsible for sales forecasting and SG&A management to ensure profitability and support GSK’s commitment to growth and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
Driving Brand Performance
- Performance Analysis: Contribute to the performance management and analysis of business results, building strong understanding of market dynamics (Sales, SG&A, Profit, Headcount, Working Capital)
- P&L Management: Full understanding of the Business unit P&L and headcount, supporting the business in achieving their targets
- Resource Allocation: Support the business in the annual budget setting process for the cross functional therapy area team, with focus on optimising resource allocation and management of risks and opportunities. Support the commercial team in tracking their expenses throughout the year, proactively identifying opportunities.
Financial Forecasting & Reporting
- Forecasting (Core Commercial Cycle): Partner with commercial, supply chain, and insights teams to deliver monthly DRM, annual plans, and soft-landing estimates, understanding and challenging assumptions and identifying risks and opportunities.
- Launch Support: Support launch forecasts for pipeline opportunities, utilizing data sources to model volume assumptions and impact of pricing decisions.
- Financial Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely financial analysis at month-end, providing insights to analyse performance and support financial entries.
Pricing Optimization & Market Dynamics
- Pricing Governance: Partner with Market Access and other experts to support pricing approval governance, performing analysis of impact of pricing decisions to support decision making.
- Market Analysis: Understand overall market dynamics, relative market positioning of products, market access situation, and future trends.
Investment & Growth Opportunities
- ROI Analysis: Model investment and growth opportunities using ROI analysis, supporting the business in making investment decisions when opportunities arise
- Margin & Cashflow Enhancement: Deliver margin enhancement initiatives through innovative cost control and utilise both internal and external benchmarking for best-in-class cost management.
Projects and Ad Hoc Analysis
- Project Management: Work on ad hoc projects, supporting the Finance Director and leadership team with management presentations showcasing critical insights and recommendations
- Ad Hoc Analysis: Conduct ad hoc financial and business modelling to support the General Medicines business unit leads and other stakeholders
Process optimization:
- Drive continuous improvement of finance processes by identifying inefficiencies, implementing standardized best practices, and measuring impact on accuracy and cycle time.
- Lead the design and deployment of automation solutions to reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and enable real-time, data-driven decision making.
Coaching and development:
- Support coaching junior team members, providing structured feedback, delegating stretching responsibilities, and supporting their development to build a high-performing, future-ready General Medicines finance team.
Applicant Profile
Basic Qualifications/ Experience:
- Finance or business degree and/or Professional qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CPA, MBA or international equivalent).
- 5+ years’ experience in financial roles
- Experience in financial modelling and forecasting, and using analysis to drive decision making
- Demonstrated experience in financial planning/ forecasting, including understanding of financial systems and processes (CERPS, Bison, CF/CCC, VISTA)
Preferred Qualifications/ Experience:
- Strong learning agility
- Experience working in cross-functional teams and across a matrix environment
- Ability to connect with and influence business stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to clearly communicate insights and complex business and financial information in a simple and compelling way to non-finance audiences
- Financial partnering experience in the Pharma sector.
- Ability to work in and support change in a complex, fast-moving environment with multiple priorities.
- A learning mindset; continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and challenge existing ways of working
- Ability to manage multiple, competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits:
· Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
· Company Car or Car Allowance
· Long-Term incentives
· Contract of employment
· Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefits
· Life insurance and pension plan
· Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
· Sports cards (Multisport)
· Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure
· Personalized learning approach
· Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions, short Fridays option, health & well-being activities)
· Supportive community and integration events
· Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
· Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers
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Skills
Business Case Development, Business Forecasting, Data Storytelling, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, Financial Modeling, Financial Performance Improvement, Influencing Without Authority, Insight Generation, Intrapreneurship
Polish Salary Range / Polski przedział wynagrodzenia: PLN 272,250 to PLN 453,750The annual gross base salary range for new hires in this position is listed above for each applicable location. These ranges take into account a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position may offer an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. More detailed information on the total benefits package will be supplied during the recruitment process. This role is available for applicants from multiple locations, and therefore salary ranges for certain locations are also shown. Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process. Please note salaries vary by country based on the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. Offers are typically made within the advertised range based on the candidate’s skills, experience and qualifications, with the upper end generally reserved for highly experienced candidates or other exceptional circumstances aligned with these criteria.Roczny przedział wynagrodzenia zasadniczego brutto dla nowo zatrudnionych osób na tym stanowisku został wskazany powyżej dla każdej właściwej lokalizacji. Pr