Associate Director - Global Process Owner - Blackline Center of Excellence

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

Job Purpose

The role will be a part of the Close and Control (C&C) Global Process Owner (GPO) Blackline Center of Excellence (COE) team with a focus on leading the COE team to ensure day-to-day support, optimization of existing and implementation of new Blackline functionalities.

You will be responsible for the Blackline’s template design, deployment and solution lifecycle. You will assess and articulate business requirements, analyze design options, seek out and assess solution simplification opportunities where business case justification exists. You will drive the business towards common, standardized global solutions.

The role will be part of C&C GPO LT, cooperate closely with the Finance HUB’s C&C team, C&C GPO, GP&T, FRMC and other business and support functions.

Role description:

• Develop & run Blackline’s solution template Governance & integrity maintenance
• Partner with other C&C GPO pillars and “Business” to initiate Blackline’s solution template change requests. Perform, jointly with GP&T teams, assessment to determine feasibility and contribute input to business benefit
• Develop and present (or support the presentation of) proposed Blackline’s solution template change to the relevant governance bodies for review and approval
• Ensure that global Blackline’s solution template documentation (i.e. GSOPs and BPSDs) is accurate and current
• Develop and implement further Account Reconciliation features streamlining the existing BSR processes
• Create and maintain Transaction Matching rules
• Lead COE team to ensure continuous system support, trouble shooting and smooth resolution of system issues
• Ensure people development, succession planning and objective setting
• Own overall system health measures (performance, integrity, controls)
• Build external network, including supplier & other Blackline’s customers, to monitor market trends, leverage best practices and benchmark solutions
• Spread the knowledge and best practices across the HUBs and Blackline users
• Lead/support business development projects to properly leverage Blackline’s modules
• Lead/support Blackline modules’ deployments across organization

Basic requirements:

• Minimum 15 years of professional experience
• Master’s degree in Finance/Finance Analysis/IT or other similar
• Experience in Blackline (or equivalent) environment (System admin, Super User, Key User)
• Experience in people management and development
• Experience in R2R/Controlling space would be an asset
• Fluent English (minimum C1)
• Knowledge of MS Office tools (especially MS Excel)
• Knowledge of SAP and supporting components

Preferred additional requirements:

• Continuous improvement mindset, problem-solving
• Project framework certification would be an asset (PMI, Prince, Agile)
• Experience in root cause analysis
• Experience in a SOX/audit environment
• Knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4Hana and FC
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly within a matrix team
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders 
• Knowledge of systems that allows checking the processes/creating reports/effectively extracting the data

At GSK we value diversity (Gender, LGBTQ +, PwD etc.) and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

  
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