**Site Name**: Costa Rica - Cartago - Tres Rios**Posted Date**: Jan 20 2023As the Operations Specialist, you will help us to lead finance, governance processes whilst striving for simplification across the Americas region in support of the business to improve lives of patients and consumers around the world. You will work to embed programs and initiatives through optimization and simplicity. The role will need to work across boundaries to partner closely with local site operations teams, Service Partner teams and WREF Centers of Excellence (COEs) to ensure a consistent approach is taken with respect to financials and processes for the Region.**_ Your Responsibilities_**: This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, the main of these are- Act as lead and point of contact for the roll out of multiple GSK wide and WREF programs. Take responsibility for the development and management of 'sub' processes and systems that bridge the gap and interface between GSK and Service Providers ensuring effective controls are maintained.- Act as point of contact for standard working processes and ad hoc finance and budget requests ensuring robust interfaces with key stakeholders, adherence to the financial calendar and budget timetables.- Act as regional data management process owner including collection, storage and indexation of operational, financial and compliance data and documents in Sharepoint and other storage medium in line with audit requirements, global policies and standards ensuring material is kept up to date, securely stored electronically and disposed of after useful life.- Drive improved Service Provider performance, support development and implementation of benchmarking, internal client feedback and innovation programmes to include data analysis and visualisation of information for key decision-making and improvement opportunities.- Ongoing process analysis and development to drive simplification and standardization of policies and procedures for site operations, including interfacing with other GSK functions, service partners, and stakeholders.- Manage annual financial processes - opex budget and update setting process, review actual spend with budget owners monthly identifying variances and areas for improvement, monthly reconciliations and 'true-ups' of actual vs budget spend by contract category for all Service Providers including posting of accruals.- Understand and comply with established WREF procedures, relevant statutes and regulations, and management processes.**_Why you? _****_Basic Qualifications:_** We are looking for professionals with these characteristics to achieve our goals:- Bachelors Degree- 3-5 years of experience in facilities roles.- Advanced English skills.- SAP Knowledge**_ Why GSK? _**Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease togetherGSK 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.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.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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We're committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.**Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies
