Senior Principal - Tech Finance Manager

Overview

Senior technology finance leadership role accountable for the end-to-end financial position of an assigned technology domain or platform portfolio, including budget, forecast, actuals and cost transparency.

What you'll do

• 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 domain/platform team.
• 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.
• 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.
• Govern contract spend, renewals, extension pipelines and financial commitments.
• Monitor service continuity and vendor financial risk, coordinating with Procurement and contract owners.
• Apply the central Technology Business Operations financial standards, definitions and controls so data is consistent and comparable.
• Ensure the domain/team operates within GSK financial policy, including approval routes, purchase governance and audit readiness.
• Escalate material financial risks, variances and control issues to domain/team leadership and to Technology Business Operations.
• Identify and support automation and simplification of recurring financial processes.
• Lead the annual plan, rolling forecast and multi-year financial outlook for an approximately GBP 25 million technology cost base.
• Act as financial co-pilot to the domain leadership team, converting operational and technology strategy into affordability scenarios, investment choices, risk exposures and measurable value outcomes.
• Challenge Directors and Senior Directors on forecast assumptions, commitments, resource choices, supplier economics and business cases; escalate material exposures to VP-level governance where appropriate.
• Provide scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis for complex decisions, including service transformation, sourcing, contract renewal, platform investment, resilience and cost optimisation.
• Govern the financial implications of cross-market and cross-region services, including currency, consumption, allocation and chargeback complexity.
• Set improved financial management practices, controls and reporting standards for the domain, using automation and data-led insight.

What you'll need

• BS or MS degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Technology Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Overall 15 years and typically 10+ years in finance, including substantial experience as a senior finance partner to a large, complex and globally distributed technology or infrastructure organisation.
• 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.
• A demonstrable effect on forecast accuracy, unit costs, investment decisions or delivered savings.
• Working within financial standards and controls set by a central function.
• Demonstrated ownership or financial leadership of a material cost base, ideally around GBP 25 million or greater, covering multiple cost categories, suppliers, planning horizons and delivery locations.
• Proven ability to influence Directors, Senior Directors and VP-level stakeholders through concise financial narratives, scenario analysis, constructive challenge and clear recommendations.
• Experience shaping strategic investment, sourcing, transformation and cost-optimisation decisions, not solely administering budgets and reporting cycles.
• Strong record of improving forecast accuracy, financial controls, cost transparency, unit economics and realised savings across complex technology services.

Nice to have

• Professionally qualified accountant (or qualified by experience) with a recognised accounting or cost-management credential, e.g. CA/CMA (India), CIMA/ACCA/ACA (UK), or CPA/CMA (US).
• Ideally a cost base of GBP 25 million or greater (listed under requirements in the source; retained above as stated).

Details

• Location: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower.
• Senior technology finance leadership role with a dotted line to the Director, Business Operations for financial governance and standards.
• Global scope across regions, countries and markets supported by the relevant technology services.