Senior Lead - Close & Control Team

Financial Controller to join our Finance Team within the Close & Control Hub in India. This role offers an exciting opportunity to ensure the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of reporting across GSK while gaining exposure to a dynamic, global biopharma environment, including leading a team and working closely with the business and other senior finance stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the successful implementation of SAP S/4HANA within the market by leading and overseeing Close & Control activities during the dual-run period, ensuring accurate financial reporting, process compliance and operational readiness.
• Partner closely with the central S/4 programme teams, Market Finance teams and the Close & Control Hub in Poznań to identify, resolve, and escalate issues, ensuring a smooth transition from legacy processes to the new operating model.
• Validate reporting outputs, controls, master data, and financial processes across both environments to ensure the integrity of financial information throughout the transformation.
• Drive continuous improvements in financial reporting processes by leveraging the latest digital tools, such as AI, Power BI and other advanced analytics solutions to enhance efficiency, accuracy and insights
• Ensure full compliance with IFRS, local statutory requirements, GSK accounting policies and SOX controls, maintaining the highest standards of financial integrity and governance.
• Provide technical accounting support and guidance on complex accounting matters, ensuring accurate application of accounting standards and timely resolution of reporting issues.
• Partner closely with Commercial, Supply Chain, Tax, Treasury, and Global Finance teams to ensure alignment on financial outcomes and reporting requirements.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent professional experience
• 10 to 15 years’ experience in accounting, audit, or financial controlling
• In-depth knowledge of accounting principles
• Professional fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Commitment to continuous professional development and learning

Skills

Business Acumen, Cyber Risks, Data Analytics, Digital Fluency, Driving Continuous Improvement, Financial Controlling, Financial Management Reporting, Stakeholder Management

 

 

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.

Inclusion at GSK:

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