Finance Director - Switzerland
Location: Zug, Switzerland
The role of Finance Director for Switzerland Local Operating Company (LOC) is an opportunity to join the Europe One Finance community and drive performance across our region. Switzerland is a highly innovative flagship market in the Northern & Western Area with strong year on year growth driven by innovations and new launches, strong competitive performance and talented team.
In this role, you will act as the Commercial Finance lead for the Swiss LOC partnering with the GM and the Leadership team to deliver targeted revenues £180m with year-on-year growth and external competitiveness. As a key member of the Swiss Leadership Team, you will support strategy development and decision-making with critical financial insights, including pipeline launches and resource allocation to achieve business objectives.
Your mission is to be a true business partner, providing a strong voice in challenging and influencing decision-making. This involves interfacing with senior stakeholders, commercial teams and regional finance, providing strategic financial input, identifying opportunities and driving performance. You will have full P&L responsibility including sales forecasting, SG&A management and resource allocation to ensure profitability and support GSK’s commitment to growth and innovation.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Driving Brand Performance
P&L Management: Full understanding and accountability for the Swiss LOC P&L and headcount, acting as a core member of the Swiss leadership team.
Performance Analysis: Lead cross-functional monthly performance reviews (MPR) and perform variance analysis of business unit results (sales, brand profit, KPIs), identifying performance gaps and proposing corrective actions.
Strategic Planning: Lead strategic portfolio and brand analysis, and scenario planning, to influence and support brand planning and business decisions for the therapy area LT
Resource Allocation: Drive the annual budget setting process for the cross functional therapy area team, with focus on strategic resource allocation and proactive identification of risks and opportunities. Support the commercial team in tracking their budgets and seeking opportunities for SG&A optimisation.
Financial Forecasting & Reporting
Forecasting (Core Commercial Cycle): Partner with commercial, supply chain, and insights teams to deliver monthly DRM, annual plans, and soft-landing estimates, aligning and challenging assumptions and identifying risks and opportunities.
Launch Support: Support launch forecasts for pipeline opportunities, utilizing data sources and scenario planning to input on volume assumptions and pricing discussions
Financial Reporting: Ensure accurate and timely financial analysis at month-end, providing insights to analyse performance and support financial entries.
Pricing Optimization & Market Dynamics
Pricing Governance: Partner with Market Access and other experts to support pricing approval governance; provide recommendations for pricing decision and challenge pricing through sensitivity analysis to optimize profitability and access
Market Analysis: Understand overall market dynamics, relative market positioning of products, market access situation, and future trends.
Investment & Growth Opportunities
ROI Analysis: Model investment and growth opportunities to support decision-making, identifying potential opportunities to optimise resource allocation using ROI.
Scenario Planning: Lead scenario planning to maximize resource use and support the business in making investment decisions.
Margin & Cashflow Enhancement: Deliver margin enhancement initiatives through innovative cost control and utilise both internal and external benchmarking for best-in-class cost management.
Project Management & External Coordination
Project Management: Work on ad hoc projects, supporting the GM and leadership team with management presentations and critical insights
Ad Hoc Analysis: Conduct ad hoc financial and business modelling to support the GM and other stakeholders
External Coordination: Act as the point of contact for finance to key external strategic partners, tax, treasury, and audit to protect GSK’s interests.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Finance or business degree and/or Professional qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CPA, MBA or international equivalent).
Demonstratable experience in financial roles and business partnering
Understanding of pharmaceutical industry
Experience in financial modelling, scenario planning and investment appraisal for decision-making recommendations in complex business challenges
Demonstrated experience in financial planning/ forecasting, including understanding of financial systems and processes (CERPS, Bison, CF/CCC, VISTA)
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Breadth of experience across different business areas
Experience working with senior stakeholders and in cross-functional teams, within a matrix environment
Ability to establish a high level of credibility and forge strong working relationships with business stakeholders; clearly presenting insights to influence and challenge
Ability to work in and drive change in a complex, fast-moving environment with multiple priorities.
Demonstrated risk management, process improvement, and project management skills
Closing Date for Applications: 3rd August 2025 (COB)
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
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