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GSK

Finance Partner – Cyber Security

GSK
UK – London – New Oxford StreetPosted about 1 month agoDiscoveredMatch locked
Full time

About the role

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centered on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges. Are you energised by a highly visible finance partnering role where you can help shape cyber security investment choices and influence decisions that protect GSK’s patients, people, data and operations? We are looking for a Finance Partner to support the Cyber Security Organisation (CSO), partnering with the Chief Information Security Officer and his leadership team. This permanent role is based at GSK HQ and offers the opportunity to step into a strategically important area of Digital & Tech, bringing financial leadership, commercial judgement and constructive challenge to decisions on risk posture, investment and resource allocation. This is a strong next step for a finance professional looking to broaden their impact, work closely with senior leaders and build experience in a high-priority area where finance plays a central role in balancing resilience, value and investment. You will develop the strategic partnering capability, stakeholder confidence and commercial judgement needed for future senior finance roles.

Finance partnership and leadership

  • Act as the senior finance partner to the Chief Information Security Officer and CSO leadership team, providing strategic partnering, financial guidance and constructive challenge.
  • Provide financial leadership across the function, supporting both near-term delivery and longer-term strategic planning.
  • Lead the planning and forecasting process, whilst driving the right conversations through the performance review cycles

Risk posture, investment and performance

  • Operate as a member of the CSO leadership team, helping shape decisions on cyber risk investment prioritisation and resource trade-offs.
  • Bring a finance partnering perspective to strategic and operational decisions, connecting financial choices with risk, resilience and value.
  • Support investment appraisal and transformation choices, ensuring options are commercially grounded, clearly articulated and aligned to enterprise priorities.

Influence and stakeholder management

  • Build trusted relationships with senior leaders across CSO, Digital & Tech and Finance, combining high support with high challenge.
  • Bring different perspectives together and enable aligned, outcome-focused decisions.

Financial discipline and governance

  • Bring financial discipline to planning, forecasting and performance discussions, ensuring decisions are supported by clear ownership, robust control and effective communication of financial outcomes.

Basic Qualifications

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

  • Qualified accountant or equivalent professional finance qualification, such as Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) or Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA).
  • Experience partnering with senior non-finance stakeholders, providing finance input to support business decision-making.
  • Experience applying financial analysis to support business decisions, including evaluation of risks, investment options, and trade-offs.

Preferred Qualifications

: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

  • Significant experience working with senior non finance customers is essential (Vice President+)
  • Demonstrated ability to apply strategic thinking, solve complex problems and influence decisions in a matrix organisation.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build credibility, challenge constructively and collaborate effectively across diverse teams.

This role is hybrid, based in the United Kingdom. You will be expected to attend our office regularly and work remotely at times, following our hybrid working approach. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage people with a range of experience to apply.

Closing Date for Applications: Friday 28th August 2026 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.  When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application. During the course of your application, you will be requested to complete voluntary information which will be used in monitoring the effectiveness of our equality and diversity policies. Your information will be treated as confidential and will not be used in any part of the selection process.  If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application / selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements, please contact 0808 234 4391. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process. #LI-GSK #LI-Hybrid

Skills

Business Case Development, Business Forecasting, Data Storytelling, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, Financial Modeling, Financial Performance Improvement, Influencing Without Authority, Insight Generation, Intrapreneurship

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale. People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are. Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com where you can also request a call. Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the Link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive

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