C&C GPO Blackline Finance Regional Expert
GSK
Date: 1 week ago
City: Karachi
Contract type: Full time
Site Name: Pakistan - Sindh - Karachi
Posted Date: Nov 28 2024
Job Purpose:
The role will be a part of the Close and Control (C&C) Global Process Owner (GPO) Blackline Center of Excellence (COE) team located in Finance Hub. The role will have two dimensions:
60%-75% of time being Blackline Finance Regional Expert
25%-40% of time being person of contact between Finance Operations Hub and C&C GPO
Primarily, the focus is on day-to-day support and optimization of existing Blackline functionalities from Finance perspective. You will be responsible to provide product expertise, knowledge and support in the areas of Manual Journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Compliance (Controls) and Close to all business users located in Karachi MEA Hub and help GSK to elevate the business processes to next level.
Secondly, the focus will be on collecting feedback and local needs to support implementation of C&C’s projects, process standardization & harmonization. Jointly with the rest of C&C GPO team you will be responsible for local dimension of proposed changes, ensuring localization is best leveraged for deployment.
The role will cooperate closely with the local Finance HUB’s C&C team, C&C GPO, GP&T, Risk & Compliance and other business and support functions.
Role description:
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.
Contact information:
You may apply for this position online by selecting the Apply now button.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
Posted Date: Nov 28 2024
Job Purpose:
The role will be a part of the Close and Control (C&C) Global Process Owner (GPO) Blackline Center of Excellence (COE) team located in Finance Hub. The role will have two dimensions:
60%-75% of time being Blackline Finance Regional Expert
25%-40% of time being person of contact between Finance Operations Hub and C&C GPO
Primarily, the focus is on day-to-day support and optimization of existing Blackline functionalities from Finance perspective. You will be responsible to provide product expertise, knowledge and support in the areas of Manual Journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Compliance (Controls) and Close to all business users located in Karachi MEA Hub and help GSK to elevate the business processes to next level.
Secondly, the focus will be on collecting feedback and local needs to support implementation of C&C’s projects, process standardization & harmonization. Jointly with the rest of C&C GPO team you will be responsible for local dimension of proposed changes, ensuring localization is best leveraged for deployment.
The role will cooperate closely with the local Finance HUB’s C&C team, C&C GPO, GP&T, Risk & Compliance and other business and support functions.
Role description:
- Perform trouble shooting for system issues
- Monitor and optimize system for best performance
- Maintain local configurations for all modules in the system.
- Ensure policies are adhered in the system
- Ensure sufficient system controls checks are performed at regular intervals
- Leverage system functionalities, identify and implement process improvement
- Provide tool expertise for system modules of Manual Journals, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Compliance (Controls) and Close
- Liaise with C&C GPO to understand the business requirements and implement changes in Blackline
- Support business development projects to properly leverage Blackline’s modules
- Lead/support Blackline modules’ deployments across organization
- Analyze & improve processes in the scope of C&C
- Make local footprint of C&C GPO organization and support HUB’s related deliverables of global projects
- Master’s degree in Finance/Finance Analysis or other similar
- Experience in Blackline environment (System admin, Super User, Key User)
- Experience in R2R/controlling processes
- Fluent English (minimum C1)
- Knowledge of MS Office tools (especially MS Excel)
- Knowledge of SAP and supporting components
- Continuous improvement mindset, problem-solving
- Project framework certification would be an asset (PMI, Prince, Agile)
- Experience in root cause analysis
- Experience in a SOX/audit environment
- Knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4Hana and FC
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly within a matrix team
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders
- Knowledge of systems that allows checking the processes/creating reports/effectively extracting the data
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.
Contact information:
You may apply for this position online by selecting the Apply now button.
Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.
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