At GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), our mission is to improve the
quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live
longer. Our three world-leading businesses research and deliver innovative
medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products. We need a talented and
motivated workforce to deliver against our strategy. To achieve this, we strive
to attract the best people and to create an environment that empowers and
inspires.
GlaxoSmithKline is recruiting for the following position:
Job Title: Finance
Business Partner
Requisition ID:
WD150261
Position: Full
time
Functional area:
Finance
Location: Lagos
Required degrees:
Bachelors
Your
Responsibilities:
Job Description Summary-Job Category - Finance Partnering
Pure/Embedded: Performing finance partnering activities at a management level
to support strategy and decision making with critical business insights,
supporting one or more Commercial Business Unit Directors & their teams.
Job Family - Finance Partnering: Provides financial
information and insight for forecasting, planning and controlling costs to the
business. Focus is on financial accounting/analysis to support achievement of
internal business goals. May be
responsible for budgetary control system and business performance analysis.
Job Family Group - Finance: Develops, implements and
maintains the financial plans and policies of the organisation. Establishes
fiscal controls, prepares financial reports, maintains relations with
investment and banking communities, advises management on financial affairs and
assists in long-range planning. Responsibilities may include accounting,
financial analysis, audit, tax, credit and collections.
Job Description-
Monitors Pharma trading results on a monthly basis in
comparison with budgeted profits. Circulates the monthly analysis to aid
decision making by Commercial Teams.
Helps management put together realistic 3 year financial
plans which guide the business achieve its goals.
Ensures the integrity of financial data provided to users
including corporate finance with an aim of safeguarding business assets and
assisting management make informed decisions.
Monitors that departmental overheads are kept within
budgets with an aim of ensuring that the
business achieves its targeted profits.
Monitors gross profits of key products and investigate key
variances from plan and suggest remedial actions with an aim of ensuring that
the business delivers the budgeted profits.
Analysis of promotional activities e.g. products bonusing to
ensure that these activities don’t result in losses.
Verifies the Tender prices to ensure that the prices quoted
are not too low to result in business making losses.
Performs Price/Volume analysis to ensure that price increases or decreases
don’t have a negative impact to sales.
Updates the sales force and the departmental heads on a
monthly basis on their performance in terms of sales and expenses to ensure
that they are on budget and make remedial actions in time incase they are off
the budget.
Makes a presentation to the top management on the year-to-date
trading results with a commentary on key variances on a monthly basis with an
aim of ensuring that the top management is always well informed of the business
trend in order to make any remedial actions in time.
Support Commercial Team in preparing month on month
forecasts in ModCF, this also feeds into the RFC submission.
Implement roll out plans set out by Global Finance for new
systems or change in systems.
Ensure timely, and accurate submission of period data into
Unison/Bison for Nigeria Market.
Why You?
Basic qualifications:
Bachelors Degree in Finance/Accounting
Advance Financial and/or Management Accounting qualification
Certified Public Accountant
Strong Financial analysis skills
Preferred
qualifications:
Excellent
communication skills
Ability to work independently and also within a team
Strong ability and experience to use Microsoft Excel &
PowerPoint in day-to-day activities
How to Apply
