GFS Continuous Improvement Expert
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Are you looking to expand your financial systems expertise in a global environment that allows you to keep pace with the speed of change? At GSK, we are transforming how new technologies are used to improve performance across the organization.
As a Process Ownership Record to Report Manager, you will collate and summarise the monthly activities undertaken in each region and assist with the design, configuration, deployment and optimization of new Financial Tools.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
Collate data from Local Operating Companies (LOC)/Regions/Business Service Centers to determine what activities and controls they are conducting today
Create a catalogue of the future state activities with numbering and standard definitions and RACI
Assist with the creation of training materials
Work with the Record to Report (R2R) Process Support Team to develop R2R Process Support Team Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Train Business Implementation Leads and Users
Deploy system functionality ensuring alignment with policy and process
Participate in After Action Reviews (AAR) and modify catalogue of activities accordingly
Work with Tech to determine what technical support is required along with cost
Coordinate Data Collection, tracking progress and reporting status
Work with the R2R Support Team Manager to ensure that Business System Requirements (BSR) follow the same support process as journals
Analyse tickets to understand root cause of issue
Ensure that capability in R2R Support Team is maintained
Develop Project Plans for Tech, Global Process Owner (GPO), and Business Change
As the Subject Matter Expert (SME), work with the R2R Trainer and R2R Communications contact to develop training materials and communications
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Certified Public Accountant/CPA or Association of Certified Chartered Accountants/ACCA certification
Medium scale business transformation experience
Experience in Pharmaceutical or consumer goods/Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector
Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) processes and proven experience in global process roll-out
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Relationship management and stakeholder management experience at a Manager/Director level
Sound understanding of process simplification and standardisation
Good leadership and communication skills and the ability to work flexibly within a matrix team
Knowledge of SAP and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) templates
Understanding and use of Agile Ways of Working and Scrum/Kanban Delivery
Why GSK?
Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.
These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:
Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk.
Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
Sustaining energy and well-being
Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
Budgeting and cost-consciousness
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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