Glaxosmithkline: Finance Graduate / Internship Opportunity
Location: Bryanston, Gauteng
Basic qualifications:
- Minimum Bcom (Accounting) ,
- Extensive experience in MS Office (Good working knowledge of Excel)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Completing CIMA qualification Essential
Job Responsibilities:
1. Payments Process
- Prepare payment packs on a weekly basis, with supporting documents, and timeously submit to the Commercial Finance Partner for authorization.
- Proactively follow up with Country Managers, and where relevant with distributors, regarding outstanding documents.
- Prepare GL postings which correctly reflect the nature of the transaction for completed payments and timeously submit to the Finance Shared Services team.
- Prepare remittance advices for all payments made to distributors.
- Maintain filing of relevant documents.
- Setup process for the monthly reconciliation of creditor balances and perform monthly distributor reconciliations.
- Maintain an uptodate payment tracker to assist with the accrual of expenses.
- Coordinate with GSK Procurement the loading of vendors for payment as required.
- Implement process changes to achieve improved efficiency.
- Proactively investigate ideas to reduce expenses.
2. Monthend Reporting
- Submission of accurate monthly payment tracker to Finance Business Partner.
- Preparation of monthly headcount report. Prepare Medical and Regulatory rows on a monthly basis.
- Prepare monthly Vaccines Stats report. Prepare Exchange rate analysis on a monthly basis.
- Preparation of the Advertising & Promotion (A&P) expense tracker and the Opex tracker on a monthly basis
- Assist with commentary for the monthly analysis of Opex and A&P spend.
- Assist with IPT responsibilities.
3. Forecasting and Budgeting Process
- Assist the SnA Finance Reporting and Planning Manager with the monthly forecasting and annual budgeting of expenses and A&P
- Perform roll forward and initialisation of monthly forecast on ModCF.
- Assist with generation of monthly baselines reports for Sales, Opex and A&P.
- Assist with ModCF and Bison reconciliations.
4. Compliance
- Ensure that there are SOPs / Knowledge Documents to support the systems and processes.
- Completion and acknowledgement of relevant SOP’s and elearning
- Perform L1 and L2 testing as required by the annual testing plan requirements and compile reports which document the procedure and outcomes of testing performed.