Finance Director – AI Acceleration & Value Assurance : Digital & Tech

As the Finance Director – AI Acceleration & Value Assurance, you will play a pivotal role in helping to articulate and accelerate the adoption of AI across the Group. Working with the SVP for AI Acceleration, you will closely partner with them on a wide scope of topics that will ultimately help GSK move quicker to adopt new digital technologies that underpin our digital plan.

You will be critical to the narrative regarding business outcomes that result from investments in digital and technological advancements (specifically Gen AI and AIML capabilities). You will be responsible for ensuring that the value generated from these investments is quantified and effectively communicated, showcasing GSK's commitment to innovation and excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Operate as the SVP’s CFO, engaging in all topics that will result in AI accelerated adoption across the Group.
• Partner with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure financial strategies align with the company’s broader goals and AI vision.
• Be the single point of contact for finance for the function, and drive investment/ financial performance/ forecasting.

Develop and Implement AI Value Assurance Framework

• Design and implement a robust value assurance framework that aligns with GSK's strategic objectives and digital transformation goals.
• Agree performance metrics/ calculations to measure the value generated from digital and tech investments in priority AI areas.
• Ensure the framework is adaptable to various digital and technology initiatives across the enterprise.

Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams

• Work closely with finance, technology, business units, and other stakeholders to ensure a agreed single view on value creation.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the SVP of AI Acceleration and other senior leaders, offering expert financial advice and insights on both operational and strategic decisions.
• Work with finance and non-finance teams to ensure financial aspects of AI and GenAI initiatives are well-understood and supported across the organization.

You will need to build high trust, high challenge relationships across key senior stakeholder groups within the business units, Digital & Tech, and Finance. You will need to play an active leadership role, challenging and uniting multiple stakeholders.

Qualifications and Skills

• Required to hold a qualified professional accountancy qualification (e.g. CIMA, ACCA).
• Significant progressive experience in finance partnering leadership roles.
• Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence and drive change.
• Tech or Transformation experience is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in order to collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
• Applied experience in defining KPIs that underpin business process outcomes.

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.