Lead - Reporting Specialist

Job Summary

As a Senior Reporting Specialist, you will work closely with a variety of stakeholders across the organization, including finance directors and cross-functional teams. By providing accurate and timely financial reporting, you will play a critical role in influencing key decision-making processes and contributing to the overall success of the business. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate across borders, drive continuous improvement, and have a direct impact on GSK's strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the successful execution of the SAP S/4HANA Dual Run, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting across both legacy and S/4 environments.
• Perform detailed comparison and reconciliation of financial results between existing and S/4 systems, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Partner closely with global S/4 programme teams, Market Finance teams and the Close Control Hub to support deployment activities and issue resolution.
• Validate end-to-end finance processes, reporting outputs, master data, and controls to ensure operational readiness for go-live.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and process validation activities during various deployment phases.
• Monitor and assess the impact of system and process changes on financial reporting, controls, and compliance requirements.
• Ensure IFRS-compliant reporting and maintenance of effective internal controls throughout the transformation period.
• Support the design and implementation of new reporting processes, controls, and governance frameworks in the S/4 environment.
• Develop reporting, reconciliation, and monitoring tools to support dual-run activities and drive deployment readiness.
• Act as a subject matter expert for Close Control processes during the transition, providing guidance to stakeholders across markets and project teams.
• Support cutover, hypercare and post-go-live stabilization activities to ensure a smooth transition into the new operating model.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, and optimize finance processes enabled by S/4HANA capabilities.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree or professional qualification in accounting (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent), or equivalent work experience
• 5 to 9 years experience in financial reporting or audit
• Strong knowledge of MS Excel
• Communicative written and spoken English
• Ability to work effectively in multicultural teams
• Preferred: Experience with SAP

Skills

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