GlaxoSmithKline: Finance Graduate Opportunity

Closing Date: 01 December 2013
Location: Bryanston

Job Purpose/Scope

• Provides support to the Southern Africa commercial and finance team in managing the Rx commercial business within the finance functions.
• The role reports into the Commercial Finance Partner.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparing month-end journals and ensuring these are processed within the required month-end timetable.
• Assisting in above country roll out of projects and data scrubbing
• Developing brand P&L’s
• Monitoring of Working Capital
• Preparing and communicating to budget holders monthly overheads report of actuals vs budgets.
• Preparing monthly sales reports for gross and net sales
• Preparing monthly sales and expense trackers
• Consolidating monthly sales forecasts done by the sales team.
• Perform monthly Balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ad-hoc requests and assistance with quarterly requests.
• Maintenance of knowledge documents and SOP’s.
• Support to the Finance Manager on a daily basis in assistance to the sales team.
• Assistance to the Finance Manager with annual budget preparations, monthly forecasts, internal plan compilations and assistance with the management thereof.

Qualifications, Experience

• B.Com degree, Financial Management or Accounting (Please supply all results)
• JD Edwards (Not critical)
• Microsoft Office Suite including excel, word and PowerPoint
• Advanced excel knowledge preferable
• Sense of urgency
• Focus on customer needs
• Accuracy
• High integrity
• Enthusiastic team player
• Willing to learn

Competencies

Knowledge

• Medium level of accounting knowledge, as currently applicable
• Extensive and detailed GSK SOP knowledge
• Knowledge of internal controls and the application thereof to a commercial entity

Complexity

• Role is not complex
• This is a learning opportunity and relates mainly to daily tasks with the assistance of the Finance Manager.

Independent Thinking

• The role is governed to a fair degree by procedures and standards, these however set a framework to operate within and around which discretion, innovation and creativity is applied
• The role is about day to day management of already implemented processes.

Responsibility

• Providing assistance to the Finance Manager during the budgeting

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