Junior Planning and Forecasting Finance Analyst
GSK
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Upgrade to Pro — $25/moThis is a unique opportunity to be part of our European Planning & Forecasting Team in Warsaw where you will learn and develop your business partnering skills and drive your career to the next level.
You will join Global Functions Finance in Poland as a Junior Planning and Forecasting Finance Analyst. You will support forecasting, planning and monthly reporting to a variety of stakeholders. You will work closely with finance partners and business stakeholders to deliver accurate plans, explain variances, and improve processes within our technology-enabled P&F Team. We value curiosity, clear communication, and a willingness to learn. This role offers growth, real business impact, and the chance to contribute to GSK’s purpose of uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work with your finance and other colleagues in your assigned country to create Forecasts, Plan and Demand Financial Forecasting exercises
• Be accountable for creating, updating, and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market
• Understand the link between plan and actuals
• Analyze variances and produce clear commentary for finance partners and stakeholders.
• Support month-end close tasks, including variance analysis
• Use new technologies to provide reports on a regular basis to facilitate managerial decision making
• Reconcile financial data across systems and resolve discrepancies with regional teams.
Why You?
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or related field.
- Minimum 1–2 years of finance experience in forecasting, planning, reporting or financial controlling.
- Good Excel skills, including use of formulas, pivot tables and basic data manipulation
- Comfortable working with finance systems such as SAC, planning tools or reporting platforms.
- Strong written and verbal English; ability to present financial information clearly.
- Desire to take ownership of the tasks
- Coordination, planning and organization skills - demonstrated ability to prioritize workload in order to meet critical deadlines
- Positive attitude, energizes team and can influence it to tackle problems
- Effective communications skills
- Ability to work in a hybrid model from our Warsaw office (on-site presence required as agreed with your line manager – 2 days a week).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Power BI (Vista), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) or similar reporting tools.
- Knowledge of budgeting cycles, variance analysis, and driver-based forecasting.
- Experience working in a global or matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.
- Basic understanding of management accounting
- Strong attention to detail with an analytical and problem-solving mindset.
- Maintaining good relationships with stakeholders
- Self-independence
Benefits:
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As an Inclusive employer, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. Please contact our Recruitment Team at pl.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.
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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