Tech Finance Manager, Digital Workplace Experience in England

This position is accountable for the financial management of Digital Workplace Experience, applying the standards set by central Technology Business Operations including the commercials of workplace services, devices and collaboration tooling. The role owns the budget, forecast, actuals and cost transparency, runs the day-to-day financial operations, and provides accurate, consistent financial inputs into the central DPTF reporting cycles. It gives leadership a clear view of spend, forecast and financial risk, and operates under a dotted line to the Director, Business Operations for financial governance and standards.

In this role you will:

• Budgeting, Forecasting and Performance: Own the budget, forecast and actuals, planning and tracking the cost base to the enterprise finance timetable. Analyse variance, risk and opportunity against plan and provide clear commentary and recommendations to leadership. Support business cases, funding requests and investment tracking, with spend decisions owned by the Digital Workplace Experience team.
• Workplace and Device Cost Management: Provide the financial view of digital workplace services, including devices, collaboration and productivity tooling, and end-user services. Track hardware, software, license and device investment across the workplace estate, and per-user or per-device unit cost. Support financial cases for workplace transformation and lifecycle investment, including the cost of not investing.
• Financial Operations: Run financial operations, including accruals, reclasses, cross-charges, purchase orders, invoices and payment follow-up. Support month-end, quarter-end and year-end close for the enterprise finance timetable. Ensure financial transactions and records are accurate, complete and processed within control requirements.
• Cost Transparency and Reporting: Provide cost transparency, including vendor, contractor and unit-cost views at the level leadership needs. Maintain a financial view of headcount, covering budgeted positions and vacancies. Provide accurate, standardised financial inputs into the central DPTF reporting cycles run by Technology Business Operations.
• Contract and Vendor Financial Management: Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments including device, license and workplace-service contracts. Monitor service continuity and vendor financial risk, coordinating with Procurement and contract owners.
• Governance and Standards: Apply the central Technology Business Operations financial standards, definitions and controls so data is consistent and comparable. Ensure Digital Workplace Experience operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness. Escalate material financial risks, variances and control issues to Digital Workplace Experience leadership and to Technology Business Operations. Identify and support automation and simplification of recurring financial processes.

Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Bachelors or Masters degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Technology Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Professionally qualified accountant (or qualified by experience). Significant experience in finance supporting a technology platform, domain or infrastructure function. Owning budgets, forecasts, actuals and cost transparency for a technology function, domain or business unit. Running day-to-day financial operations - accruals, purchase orders, invoices and period-end close - against a fixed finance calendar. Turning vendor, contractor and unit-cost data into insight that explains and challenges spend. Handling supplier, managed service and contract spend, renewals and financial commitments. Building investment cases and delivering measurable cost reductions across supplier, licence and infrastructure spend.

Preferred Skills: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Recognised accounting or cost-management credential such as CIMA/ACCA/ACA. Experience with hardware, software and licence investment planning. Working within financial standards and controls set by a central function. Experience with workplace, device and licence commercials and cost management. Experience in per-user unit-cost reporting.

Other Job-Related Skills/Background: Able to own a technology cost base end-to-end and translate complex financial detail into clear decisions for non-finance leaders. Commercially astute across supplier, managed service and license spend, with the judgement to test whether an investment case genuinely stacks up. Rigorous on data quality and accuracy, recognizing that flawed inputs undermine the consolidated financial picture. Confident challenging forecasts, assumptions and spend decisions constructively. Highly organised and self-directed, delivering multiple concurrent financial cycles reliably against fixed deadlines. A clear, credible communicator who can hold their position with Finance and Tech stakeholders.

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (COB)

Skills: Change Management, Compliance Risk Management, Dependency Analysis, Executive Reports, Financial Acumen, Portfolio Performance Management, Portfolio Prioritization, Problem Solving, Project Management Governance, Shareholder Communications, Stakeholder Management.

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.

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