Senior Global Alliances and Licensing Reporting Specialist

We are looking for an experienced Senior Financial Reporting Specialist – Global Alliances & Licensing to join the GSK Finance Hub – Europe. This role offers visible impact, accelerated learning and the opportunity to deepen your financial reporting and business partnering skills while contributing to GSK’s mission of uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
You will report to the Financial Reporting Team Leader – Global Alliances & Licensing and work closely with stakeholders at all levels, from analysts to senior management, further building both your financial reporting and business partnering capabilities.
The role is embedded in the wider GSK Corporate Finance function, with opportunities to collaborate across the organisation and take an active role in continuous improvement, digital initiatives and team-wide projects. The successful candidate will develop financial reporting and business partnering skills with stakeholders of varying seniority across Finance and other functions, including C&C, R&D, Legal, Supply Chain, GSK Global Treasury, Trading Partner Finance & Operations and Tax/Transfer Pricing.
Key Responsibilities:
Contract and Royalty Management
Manage financial aspects of your own portfolio of complex licensing agreements.
Controls, Compliance and Audit
Ensure compliance with contractual financial reporting requirements to third parties and with internal Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) controls.
Prepare feedback for internal and external audit.
Month-End, Forecasting and Cash Flow
Lead month-end / period-end processes: analyse entries, prepare and review journals (including monthly royalty accruals), perform balance sheet reconciliations and commentary, and fulfil associated SOX responsibilities, ensuring a timely close.
Prepare annual budget royalty rates, royalty income, royalty expenses and trade payables for your product portfolio.
Perform cash flow reporting and analysis.
Analyse actuals versus plan and prepare concise, assumption-driven variance explanations.
Support critical month-end reporting processes and ensure timely, accurate delivery of financial reports.
Reporting, Data and Transformation
Support Finance transformation initiatives, including SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and S/4HANA reporting projects, partnering with technical and data teams to design sustainable, scalable reporting solutions.Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or equivalent professional qualification.
Business Partnering and Stakeholder Management
Develop strong business partnerships and act as a trusted advisor on financial reporting capabilities, identifying opportunities to improve business insight. Support ad-hoc analysis and decision-support requests from senior stakeholders.
Work across cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and reporting standardisation.
Basic Qualifications:
3–4+ years’ finance and accounting experience in a corporate environment, including experience in a control / SOX environment.
Deep expertise in month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting and management reporting.
Strong knowledge of accounting and management reporting concepts, including double entry and accruals, with IFRS awareness.
Experience with SAP (e.g. S/4HANA) and SAP Analytics Cloud or similar planning systems.
Strong analytical, data visualisation and storytelling skills in a financial context; highly proficient in MS Excel.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills in English (minimum C1), confident with senior and cross-functional stakeholders.
Organised, detail-oriented team player with strong time management skills, proven problem-solving ability and a flexible, “can-do” attitude.
Preferred Qualifications:
Advanced SAP (including S/4HANA) experience in a Finance or reporting environment is a strong asset.
Progress towards or completion of a professional accounting qualification (e.g. ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).
Experience with data analysis and visualisation platforms such as Power BI (or similar) to enhance financial storytelling and dashboards.
Work Arrangement:
This role follows a hybrid working model. You will be expected to work on-site in Poznań 2–3 days per week, be available for in-person collaboration and remotely for the remainder.
Benefits:
Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
Contract of employment
Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit)
Life insurance and pension plan
Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
Sports cards (Multisport)
Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure
Personalized learning approach
Extensive support of work life balance
Supportive community and integration events
Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.
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Skills
Business Forecasting, Business Reporting Tools, Critical Thinking, Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Digital Fluency, Financial Controlling, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Influencing Without Authority, Stakeholder Management
Polish Salary Range / Polski przedział wynagrodzenia: PLN 127,500 to PLN 212,500The annual gross base salary range for new hires in this position is listed above for each applicable location. These ranges take into account a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position may offer an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. More detailed information on the total benefits package will be supplied during the recruitment process. This role is available for applicants from multiple locations, and therefore salary ranges for certain locations are also shown. Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process. Please note salaries vary by country based on the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. Offers are typically made within the advertised range based on the candidat