Finance Risk Assistant Manager

Job Purpose

This role provides effective risk management and finance controls support to GSK business units, covering all processes performed in the

Regional Hub as well as business specific finance risk and controls activities in the markets.

The role helps ensure that risks are appropriately mitigated with a sound control framework and provides adequate oversight of risks and

controls issues within a given process on a global basis and/or for a relevant GSK Business Unit. Accountable for assessing process risks and

controls and drive risk mitigation initiatives over different business processes to ensure control soundness. The role is also responsible for

partnering with the relevant global finance process owners and/or finance operational leads any other relevant finance process organizations to

ensure identified solutions mitigate the risk, and to support implementation and embedding key control initiatives associated with GSK finance

policies and standards. The focus in the role is to build a culture of proactive risk assessment and business partnering to strengthen GSK control

framework to mitigate risk effectively and efficiently.

Education, Experience & Skills

• Masters degree & further education with a Professional Accounting / Auditing qualification.

  
  

• Minimum of 3-5 years Post qualification or post MBA experience in internal or external audit, SOX compliance programmes, governance, and/or internal controls.

  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Provide risk management support on remediation activities related to control deficiencies and/or process gaps to ensure adequate risk mitigation and track activities until remediation closure.

  
  

• Utilize data tools and integrated systems to extract meaningful analytics which enhance control measures, assist in identifying patterns and anomalies and improve overall risk management.

  
  

• Provide risk management support to projects and continuous improvement initiatives led by the GPOs and/or the hub leadership team, maintaining control oversight on these changes in systems and processes.

  
  

• Plan, coordinate, and review controls testing activities performed by a third party and corresponding reporting of control deficiencies to management.

  
  

• Ensure GSK control framework adequately addresses finance risks in the relevant GSK Business Unit, in line with GSK global standards and expectations.

  
  

• Manage and maintain controls master data in relevant tools and propose/adopt new technology to improve automation and efficiency of risk and control activities.

  
  

• Drive compliance and risk mitigation initiatives at the hub and/or global process tower

  
  

• Drive access management related controls (Segregation of Duties, Periodic review of end user access) within the business.

  
  

• Stakeholder management re. to process owners and control owners in the hub and related finance third party.

  
  

• Support Enterprise Risk Management and relevant operational risk mitigation activities by actively contributing to the Hub Risk Management and Compliance Board (RMCB) and support the local markets or relevant Business Unit in preparation of their local risk management and compliance boards (RMCBs).

  
  

• Support external financial audit, and other internal or external bodies involved in financial risks and controls, to reduce impact to business, increase reliance, and align on auditor’s assessment of the finance control environment for SOX reporting purposes.

  
  

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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