GSK Hiring for Senior Finance Business Partner – Gulf (6 months contract) Job at Dubai Full Time

Job Purpose

6 months secondment opportunity to back fill an existing role. The role will be based in Dubai or base location (with some travels to Dubai).

The role will be responsible for financial plans/updates & forecasts, financial reporting, management reporting, financial analysis and business partnering & will be managing a team of finance business partners & financial analyst.

Your Key Responsibilities

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

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering:

• The role will primarily be responsible for working with the commercial and marketing teams to develop ambitious yet achievable financial plan, updates & monthly CCC for Gulf.
• Supervising all ancillary planning activities including and not limited to plan phasing, exchange and cost flips, submission of plan in financial planning system, offline templates and presentations.
• Overall responsibility of pricing based on input from pricing and regulatory teams. Proactively managing pricing mitigation plan by including right stakeholders at the right time.
• Providing financial insight to management on all spend areas to improve return on investment.
• Evaluating new business initiatives including feasibility of new product launches in the market with right pricing and investment.
• Tender evaluation from the perspective of pricing competitiveness, profitability and budget comparison.
• Proactive management of Gross to net, engaging with stakeholders by giving heads up on stock aging, slow moving &/or low consumption to avoid returns & write offs.
• Analysing trade and tender stocks at the customer and according flag any slow-moving stock, provision or supply phasing changes required.
• Work with project and GPO teams for setting up appropriate accounting mechanism and route (specifically in relation with local manufacturing in UAE).
• Evaluation of commercial discount schemes to assess the ROI.
• Supporting management / business units in provision of financials pertaining to business needs.

Month-end Reporting:

• Supervise all month-end and year-end closing process to ensure appropriate closure of sales per rolling forecast, review of selling, admin and general expenses and ensure P&L landing per plan
• Review adequacy of return and allowance provisions and accruals. Ensuring all probable risks are accounted for in books and working with commercial team to minimize exposure.
• Review SG&A expenses actuals against plan including ensuring correct reporting and classification according to BUs and Therapy area.
• Ensure timely compliance with all Area, Entity and stat audit requirements.

Management Reporting and Analysis:

• Providing visibility to the management on performance and spend by releasing monthly dashboard and adhoc financial reports per requirement.
• Analysis of monthly actual spend and to-market sales vs. budget, YTD /YTG trend analysis. Analysing actual to-market and in-market sales, its relation and drawing relevant conclusion.
• Process improvement initiatives on all reporting and system automation to minimize manual work and efficient reporting that support decision making.

Accountability

• Full accountability of reporting and forecasting cycle.
• Ensuring deliveries of the objectives/ monthly tasks as per agreed timelines.
• Ensure compliance of the local SOPs, where applicable.
• Timely delivery of projects.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Customer Driven
• Team Player
• Resilient

Essential Skills and Abilities:

• Driving Partnerships
• Communicating for Results
• Technical Expertise
• Customer Driven
• Team Player
• Resilient

Why GSK?

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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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