GSK finance internship, Dubai

About the company

GSK is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. They are a global business with over 96,000 people across 100 countries.

GSK believes in developing innovative medicines and products that will enable people to do more feel better and live longer. This is the challenge that they set to all employees and is what inspires and motivates them to deliver medicines, products and work with communities worldwide. They are a leader in the pharmaceutical industry and believe they are the only company both researching and developing medicines and vaccines for the World Health Organisation’s three ‘priority’ diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and they are very proud to have developed some of the leading global medicines in these fields.

The Finance Department within the Regional Office for Gulf and Near East is responsible for ten countries. The employee base is about 550 people across, including the third party sales force. The Regional Employee Base is predominately a sales and marketing organisation, with a primary responsibility of providing healthcare needs to both the private and public sectors within these countries.

About the internship

The Finance Department based in Dubai provides full operational support, financial corporate governance and controls to the ten markets within the region. The current business plan for 2012 for the region is 200mGBP, and in the last three years there has been high double digit growth, which has been through both organic and inorganic growth This opportunity will provide an intern who wishes to pursue a career in finance a wonderful learning opportunity to see all aspects of the financial operation, and across ten markets within the emerging markets business model.

This internship will provide an opportunity for the intern to understand the financial framework within a region that is based within the Emerging Markets that is very different to the established markets in UK and Europe The Region covers ten countries; UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and to understand the pharmaceutical market and business model.

Key responsibilities:

  • To work with the Financial Controller to review the current financial processes and systems and implement any required changes in line with the business and governance environment.
  • To design and implement a Finance score card that is aligned with the business KPIs

Deliverables:

  • Implementation of key processes and systems
  • Implementation of a Finance score card
  • Accurate analysis and data requests/task as when required
  • Update policies and procedures
  • Design financial guidance documentation
  • Review Financial Risk Management and control Framework
  • Manage Financial Training
  • Assist in Training non-Financial Staff
  • Maintenance of key account reconcilaitions

The internship takes place between the end of June and the end of September 2013; the working hours will be 8:30am to 5:00pm Sunday to Thursday. All costs will be covered by Global Challenge.

Qualifications and skills

  • You should be studying a Finance related degree  
  • MS Office
  • Strong report and policy writing skills
  • Building relationships
  • Good attention to detail
  • Self starter
  • Good presentational skills
  • Understanding of the region would be desirable
  • Arabic and French are desirable but not essential

Application instructions

Applications for this opportunity have now closed.