Site Name: Costa Rica - Cartago - Tres Rios
Posted Date: Oct 16 2024
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 Hubs.
Primarily, the focus is on day-to-day support and optimization of existing Blackline functionalities. 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 assigned 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, and other business and support functions, make a local footprint of C&C GPO organization and support HUB’s related deliverables of global projects.
Your Responsibilities:

This role gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, the main of these are:

• Perform trouble shooting for system issues.
• Monitor and optimize the system for best performance, maintaining local configurations for all modules, 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, analyze & improve processes in the scope of C&C and implement changes in Blackline.
• Support business development projects to properly leverage Blackline’s modules.
• Lead/support Blackline modules’ deployments across organization.

Why you?
Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these characteristics to achieve our goals:

• Degree in Finance, Finance Analysis and / or IT.
• Experience in Blackline environment as a System Admin, Super User and/or Key User.
• Experience in R2R/controlling processes.
• Fluent English oral and written.
• Knowledge of Excel and MS Office tools.
• Knowledge of SAP and supporting components.

Preferred additional requirements:

• Continuous improvement experience.
• Project framework certification (PMI, Prince, Agile)
• Experience in root cause analysis
• Experience in a SOX/audit environment
• Knowledge of SAP ECC, S/4Hana and FC
• Knowledge of systems for checking the processes/creating reports/effectively extracting the data

Why GSK?
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.

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