Finance Director – AI Acceleration & Value Assurance : Digital & Tech

As the Finance Director – AI Acceleration & Value Assurance, you will play a pivotal role in helping to articulate and accelerate the adoption of AI across the Group. Working with the SVP for AI Acceleration, you will closely partner with them on a wide scope of topics that will ultimately help GSK move quicker to adopt new digital technologies that underpin our digital plan. In addition to this, you will be critical to the narrative regarding business outcomes that result from investments in digital and technological advancements (specifically Gen AI and AIML capabilities). You will be responsible for ensuring that the value generated from these investments is quantified and effectively communicated, showcasing GSK's commitment to innovation and excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Finance partner to the SVP of AI Acceleration:

• Operate as the SVP’s CFO, engaging in all topics that will result in AI accelerated adoption across the Group (e.g. deployment approaches/ prioritisation of investments/ operating model decisions…)
• Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure financial strategies align with the company’s broader goals and AI vision.
• Be the single point of contact for finance for the function, and drive investment/ financial performance/ forecasting

Develop and Implement AI Value Assurance Framework:

• Design and implement a robust value assurance framework that aligns with GSK's strategic objectives and digital transformation goals. Ensuring that the company can measure both short-term and long-term financial benefits.
• Agree performance metrics/ calculations to measure the value generated from digital and tech investments in priority AI areas
• Ensure the framework is adaptable to various digital and technology initiatives across the enterprise

Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams:

• Work closely with finance (inc FLT), technology, business units, and other stakeholders to ensure a agreed single view on value creation
• Act as a trusted advisor to the SVP of AI Acceleration and other senior leaders, offering expert financial advice and insights on both operational and strategic decisions.
• Work with finance and non-finance teams to ensure financial aspects of AI and GenAI initiatives are well-understood and supported across the organization.

Build high trust, high challenge relationships across key senior stakeholder groups within the business units, Digital & Tech, and Finance.

Be the independent, enterprise voice in the room that helps pull multiple perspectives together to ensure the outcome is achieved. You will need to play an active leadership role, challenging and uniting multiple stakeholders.

Why you?Qualifications and Skills:                                                      

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Required to hold a qualified professional accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA)
• Significant progressive experience in finance partnering leadership roles, where you are currently partnering on a day-to-day basis with senior non-finance stakeholders
• Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence and drive change (e.g. experience of leading on a multi-business unit program, and having a significant network across GSKs business units (in a partnering content)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in order to collaborate effectively across diverse teams
• Applied experience in defining KPIs that underpin business process outcomes

APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – 13 May 2025

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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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