Business Operations Manager

Business Introduction

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Consolidate operational and financial reporting for DPTF, producing an accurate and current view of spend, forecast and operational health for leadership.
• Run the monthly and quarterly financial cycles for the function, including forecast collection, variance analysis and period end reporting, to the enterprise finance timetable.
• Coordinate the business planning cycle and operating rhythm, preparing materials, scheduling sessions and following actions through to closure.
• Support budget management, tracking commitments, accruals and purchase activity against plan and flagging where the position is moving.
• Collect and quality assure financial and operational inputs from the federated Tech Finance Managers and domain teams, following up on gaps and inconsistencies.
• Produce cost transparency and establishment reporting, including unit cost, vendor and contractor spend and the funded position against actual headcount, at the level of detail leadership and domain teams need.
• Support financial control and compliance activity, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit requests.
• Identify and deliver process automation and optimisation opportunities across business operations, reducing manual effort in recurring cycles.
• Provide operational insight to senior leadership teams, highlighting trends, variances and issues with supporting analysis.
• Partner with Finance and with the Investment & Portfolio Manager so that financial reporting and portfolio reporting reconcile.
• Maintain the business operations tooling, templates and data so that reporting is repeatable and does not depend on individual effort.
• Use AI and analytics to accelerate consolidation, variance analysis and management reporting.

Experience Required

• Overall 15+ Years of experience, typically 6-8 years in technology finance, business operations, financial analysis or management reporting roles.
• Experience running monthly and quarterly financial cycles to an external finance timetable.
• Experience consolidating financial and operational data from multiple teams into a single reliable view.
• Experience producing cost transparency reporting, including vendor, contractor and unit cost views.
• Experience supporting budget management, including commitments, accruals and purchase tracking.
• Experience identifying and delivering automation or simplification of recurring reporting processes.
• Familiarity with financial and reporting systems and with AI enabled analytics applied to consolidation and variance analysis.

Skills/Background

• Strong analytical and financial literacy, able to consolidate and interrogate large volumes of financial and operational data.
• High attention to detail and discipline in data quality, since leadership decisions rest on the reporting.
• Clear communication skills, able to explain financial information to audiences without a finance background.
• Well organised, able to deliver recurring cycles reliably to a fixed external timetable.
• Proactive approach to automating and simplifying repetitive work.

Skills

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.

Inclusion at GSK:

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at [email protected] to discuss your needs.

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