**Site Name**: Costa Rica - Cartago - Tres Rios**Posted Date**: Jan 29 2024This is a unique opportunity to be part of our Americas Planning & Forecasting Hub in Costa Rica. Providing planning & forecasting support to a variety of stakeholders across different markets, this role is fantastic opportunity to develop your business partnering skills and develop your career. Working within our technology enabled P&F Hub, you will help manage the preparation of in-market forecasts, prepare monthly management reports and other complex activities.We are looking for an individual with grit, resilience, high integrity, and a team first mindset who is ready for a challenge for the sake of personal development, growth and building a network. The opportunity offers close collaboration with internal customers and stakeholders and insights how the operations and business decision making work.**_ Your Responsibilities_**:This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, the main of these are:- Provide support to the Planning & Forecasting Lead with the preparation of the 3+1 plan to the Leadership Team.- Responsible for the preparation of the monthly Operational, Advertising and Promotion expenses.- Accountable for creating, updating and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts for the market (Core Commercial Cycle process).- Compare forecasts against budgets and prior month forecasts.- Performs variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward.- Prepare internal management reports for executive leadership and support their decision making.- Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams.**_Why you? _****Basic Qualifications**:We are looking for professionals with these characteristics to achieve our goals:- University educated (Bachelor's Degree) in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, Engineering.- Relevant experience (3-5 years) preferably within a similar operating model and similar sector.- Experience in Financial Planning/Budgeting, preferably in a multinational company.- Expertise in creating or extracting information from /to excel and use of advanced formulas.- Experience in working with SAP/Bison- Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills.- Strong spoken and written English B2 level or up.**Preferred Qualifications**:However, if you have the following, it would be a plus:- Power BI, Advanced PowerPoint skills.- Portuguese will be considered a plus.**_ Why GSK? _**Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and define our culture so that together we can deliver extraordinary impact for patients and consumers and make GSK a brilliant place to work.As a GSK employee you will be encouraged to be you in a diverse and inclusive environment that focus on your wellbeing and enables you to feel good and to thrive, and gather the opportunities we offer to learn, develop and keep growing.At GSK we believe that we all bring something unique and when we combine our knowledge, experiences and styles together, the impact is incredible. Join us to make the difference and play an important role on the benefit of millions of patients and consumers worldwide.**Why Us?**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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.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
