Senior Project Risk Manager

This role is accountable for leading FRMC engagement across complex, high-impact global finance transformation initiatives, providing early-stage risk insight and big-picture shaping, and ensuring that material finance risk and governance considerations are embedded from conception through go-live and post-qualification.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with assigned finance process owners and process towers to assess key risks and prioritise control improvements aligned to the team’s top‑ten risk questions.

• Manage and mentor a small team of Risk Managers; allocate resources, review deliverables and ensure consistent risk standards across workstreams.

• Support early-stage conception, brainstorming, and solution shaping, providing big-picture risk insight to help convert concepts into viable, fundable initiatives.

• Provide strategic risk insights and guidance on global process change, ensuring appropriate control intent and governance considerations are embedded into programme design and scope, and influencing early decision-making on delivery approach, resourcing, and benefits.

• Maintain a strong risk focus across programmes, ensuring key finance risks are identified, prioritised, and appropriately addressed throughout the project lifecycle.

• Oversee FRMC involvement through implementation, go-live, and post-qualification, ensuring risk readiness and appropriate escalation of material issues.

• Act as a coordination (“glue”) role across FRMC teams, ensuring aligned risk messaging, clear hand-offs, and consistent engagement with stakeholders.

• Engage with senior business and programme leads to understand the transformation pipeline and shape FRMC demand and prioritisation.

• Provide risk guidance, deliver training and produce communications for stakeholders and process owners; act as FRMC SPOC for assigned projects.

• Enable the adoption of digital capabilities across risk and control activities within transformation initiatives, guiding the application of data, automation, and tools.

Why You?
Basic Qualification:

• 12–15+ years of proven experience in financial risk management, controls, and change management.

• Proven experience in project/program management, ideally with exposure to global initiatives, including implementing or enabling digital capabilities, automation, and data-driven risk insights.

• Deep familiarity with finance processes, risk frameworks (RACMs, SOX/regulatory), governance, and controls, with an understanding of how digital tools and analytics can enhance risk management and compliance effectiveness.

• Professional finance qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, ACCA, CIA).

Working model
This role is hybrid. You will be expected to work from our Poland office regularly and be available for in-person collaboration.

Why GSK?

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies.

• Contract of employment.

• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit).

• Life insurance and pension plan.

• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts.

• Company Car or Car Allowance.

• Long term incentives.

• Sports cards (Multisport).

• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure.

• Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online training’ platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external training).

• 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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The annual base salary in Poland for new hires in this position ranges from PLN 241,500 to PLN 402,500 gross, taking into account a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. Depending on the role and internal policies, the position may also be eligible for a bonus (if applicable and based on defined, non-discretionary criteria) and/or awards for exceptional performance (granted at the employer’s discretion). All statutory benefits will be maintained in accordance with Polish law. Other benefits may also be offered, which may include private healthcare, additional paid days off, life insurance, private pension plan and fully paid parental leave & care of family member leave. More detailed information on the total reward package applicable to your role will be supplied during the recruitment process. 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 market rate for the role.

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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