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About this role
Role Overview
Act as the lead Senior Finance Partner for TDS, providing forward-looking financial leadership, insight, and constructive challenge to senior business stakeholders to shape priorities and portfolio choices
Influence strategic choices by translating complex financial and operational data into clear, decision-oriented insights —including value, opportunity cost, timing, and risk
Partner across Finance, Commercial, R&D, Manufacturing, Portfolio and Corporate functions to ensure enterprise alignment, coherent narratives, and transparent trade-offs in value and data-based decisions
Provide finance leadership for the Translational Hub, including resource model and ramp-up plan, and ongoing performance insights to ensure productivity and value delivery
Lead the financial evaluation of investments, business cases, and scenarios with a portfolio lens, ensuring assumptions are robust, risks are understood, and trade-offs/opportunity costs are explicit
Partner with TDS leaders to define, measure, and improve R&D productivity (e.g., resource utilisation, throughput, cycle times, cost to deliver, and value per FTE), using insight to drive prioritisation, stop/start decisions, and reinvestment
Own and lead planning, budgeting, and forecasting for the area of responsibility, translating strategy into resourcing and financial plans while balancing robustness with pragmatism
Drive performance management through root-cause and driver analysis, leading indicators, and forward-looking outlooks—linking insights to clear actions and decisions
Be accountable for the integrity, accuracy, and transparency of financial reporting, forecasts, and valuations—ensuring decision makers have a trusted fact base
Maintain strong control and compliance standards—applying pragmatic risk management and fit-for-purpose processes that enable pace while protecting value and reputation in line with GSK policies and Finance Ways of Working
Understand balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow impacts of strategic choices, including capital allocation implications, valuation sensitivities, and risk of impairments where relevant
Lead identification of opportunities to optimise spend, improve productivity, and reallocate resources to the highest-value priorities; quantify benefits and track delivery
Champion continuous improvement, simplification, and automation of finance insights and processes (including analytics and self-serve reporting), enabling Finance to focus on higher-value strategic work
Build strong, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders through credibility, curiosity and strategic storytelling; influence without authority to drive alignment and action
Line manager responsibilities for a small team, focused on coaching, capability building, and building a high-performing culture
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting (or qualified by experience)
Experience as a Finance Partner in a business unit environment – ideally in R&D
Track record of driving sound business decision making in relation to complex problems based on robust, impartial financial analysis
Track record of setting and delivering financial plans
Strong skills in modelling, analysis, forecasting, strategic / scenario planning, and decision making.
Some project management skills.
Understanding of financial systems and processes (e.g., SAP, CERPS, SAC)
Ability to work in a complex and fast-moving environment with multiple priorities
Ability to connect with and influence business stakeholders at all levels in a technical environment and to establish a high level of credibility with senior internal and third-party stakeholders.