Commercial Finance Analyst

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 centered 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.

This role incumbent leads and manages the end to end expense planning processes across Global Specialty GPS & Medical (budget of ~£180m) and has specific responsibility to partner early pipeline Commercial and Medical Portfolio teams.

 
In this role you will:

End to End expense management responsibilities:

Along with ad-hoc analysis and project involvement, the key responsibilities of the role will include:

• Partnering with the Portfolio teams (Commercial Ops & Strategy and Portfolio strategy) teams (~£21m budget responsibility), including monthly meetings with team leads to provide financial management of variance to budget.

• Providing financial management for the Specialty Care expenditure, including driving the Plan/LQE/MYE/FC1 setting process and the consolidation. Providing monthly commentary for achieving Plan/MYE/FC1/LQE highlighting key gaps and questions on Headcount, Variable Spend and Evidence Generation. Support FP and VP in overall financial control of expense budgets, taking direction to work up options to reallocate funding to areas of greatest need

• Design and distribute monthly reports to Specialty Care including flash sales report, flash sales commentary, expenditure reports and summary portfolio deck. Prepare deck for Specialty Care Leadership Team on monthly performance to focus leaders on key drivers of the business.

• Keeping the headcount tracker up to date and working with HR, finance partners to make any changes.  Support FP and VP in financial control of headcount costs, explaining assumptions, deviations from plan and options to close gaps

• Working cross functionally with the medical team, manage the financial process within the data generation planning process in preparation for the annual Medical Review Board for decision making on funding for new data generation studies.

• Working with the KC and other Finance Partners to ensure all month end activities and reports are delivered on time, efficiently and effectively.

• Manage submissions into key processes and systems e.g. SAC

• Ad hoc Sales and Profitability analysis, including developing insights and presentations for senior management.

Early pipeline finance partnering responsibilities:

• Manage headcount, variable and evidence generation expenditure budgets partnering with the commercial and medical teams.  Drive strategic discussions with the teams to understand the pipeline stages, governance timelines and plan for resourcing the assets for success.  Evaluate the risk profile and recommend resourcing to VP Finance

• Educate and influence business partners to plan over a longer time horizon to prepare the organisation for the evolution of the portfolio.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics etc. or equivalent experience

• CIMA/Other Professional Accounting Qualifications

• Good experience in Finance or budget management roles

• Significant experience with senior stakeholder engagement, including up to VP level

Preferred Skills:

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

• Experience applying financial analysis to support business decisions, including evaluation of risks, investment options, and trade-offs.

• Ability to work across time zones (US, UK and Europe)

• Good knowledge of GSK Finance standards, systems and processes.

• Demonstrated ability to apply strategic thinking, solve complex problems and influence decisions in a matrix organisation.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build credibility, challenge constructively and collaborate effectively across diverse teams.

Closing Date for Applications: Thursday 17th September 2026 (COB)

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When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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Skills

Business Forecasting, Business Reporting Tools, Data Storytelling, Data Visualization, Digital Fluency, Financial Modeling, Financial Performance Improvement, Influencing Without Authority, Insight Generation, Problem Solving

 

 

Polish Salary Range / Polski przedział wynagrodzenia: PLN 203,250 to PLN 338,750The 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.

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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

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