Senior Project Risk Manager

This role is accountable for leading FRMC engagement across complex, high-impact global finance transformation initiatives, providing early-stage risk insight and big-picture shaping, and ensuring that material finance risk and governance considerations are embedded from conception through go-live and post-qualification.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with assigned finance process owners and process towers to assess key risks and prioritise control improvements aligned to the team’s top‑ten risk questions.

  
  
  

• Manage and mentor a small team of Risk Managers; allocate resources, review deliverables and ensure consistent risk standards across workstreams.

  
  
  

• Support early-stage conception, brainstorming, and solution shaping, providing big-picture risk insight to help convert concepts into viable, fundable initiatives.

  
  
  

• Provide strategic risk insights and guidance on global process change, ensuring appropriate control intent and governance considerations are embedded into programme design and scope, and influencing early decision-making on delivery approach, resourcing, and benefits.

  
  
  

• Maintain a strong risk focus across programmes, ensuring key finance risks are identified, prioritised, and appropriately addressed throughout the project lifecycle.

  
  
  

• Oversee FRMC involvement through implementation, go-live, and post-qualification, ensuring risk readiness and appropriate escalation of material issues.

  
  
  

• Act as a coordination (“glue”) role across FRMC teams, ensuring aligned risk messaging, clear hand-offs, and consistent engagement with stakeholders.

  
  
  

• Engage with senior business and programme leads to understand the transformation pipeline and shape FRMC demand and prioritisation.

  
  
  

• Provide risk guidance, deliver training and produce communications for stakeholders and process owners; act as FRMC SPOC for assigned projects.

  
  
  

• Enable the adoption of digital capabilities across risk and control activities within transformation initiatives, guiding the application of data, automation, and tools.

  
  
  

Why You?
Basic Qualification:

• 12–15+ years of proven experience in financial risk management, controls, and change management.

  
  
  

• Proven experience in project/program management, ideally with exposure to global initiatives, including implementing or enabling digital capabilities, automation, and data-driven risk insights.

  
  
  

• Deep familiarity with finance processes, risk frameworks (RACMs, SOX/regulatory), governance, and controls, with an understanding of how digital tools and analytics can enhance risk management and compliance effectiveness.

  
  
  

• Professional finance qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, ACCA, CIA).

  
  
  

Working model
This role is hybrid. You will be expected to work from our Poland office regularly and be available for in-person collaboration.

Why GSK?

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies.

  
  
  

• Contract of employment.

  
  
  

• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit).

  
  
  

• Life insurance and pension plan.

  
  
  

• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible counterparts.

  
  
  

• Company Car or Car Allowance.

  
  
  

• Long term incentives.

  
  
  

• Sports cards (Multisport).

  
  
  

• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure.

  
  
  

• Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online training’ platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external training).

  
  
  

• Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions, short Fridays option, health & well-being activities).

  
  
  

• Supportive community and integration events.

  
  
  

• Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday.

  
  
  

• Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.

  
  
  

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Polish Salary Range / Polski przedział wynagrodzenia: PLN 241,500 to PLN 402,500Roczny przedział wynagrodzenia zasadniczego brutto dla nowo zatrudnionych osób na tym stanowisku został wskazany powyżej dla każdej właściwej lokalizacji. Przedziały te uwzględniają szereg czynników, w tym umiejętności kandydata, doświadczenie, poziom wykształcenia oraz rynkowy poziom wynagrodzenia dla tego stanowiska W zależności od stanowiska i obowiązujących polityk wewnętrznych, rola ta może również uprawniać do otrzymania premii (jeśli ma zastosowanie i jest przyznawana na podstawie określonych, obiektywnych kryteriów) oraz/lub nagród za wyjątkowe wyniki (przyznawanych według uznania pracodawcy). Wszystkie świadczenia ustawowe będą zapewnione zgodnie z przepisami prawa polskiego. Mogą być także oferowane dodatkowe benefity, takie jak prywatna opieka medyczna, dodatkowe płatne dni wolne, ubezpieczenie na życie, prywatny plan emerytalny oraz w pełni płatny urlop rodzicielski i urlop na opiekę nad członkiem rodziny. Bardziej szczegółowe informacje na temat całkowitego pakietu wynagrodzenia i świadczeń przypisanego do tego stanowiska zostaną przekazane podczas procesu rekrutacyjnego. Przedziały wynagrodzenia dla innych krajów mogą być również widoczne, ponieważ na niektórych rynkach obowiązują przepisy dotyczące jawności wynagrodzeń, które wymagają zamieszczania takich informacji w ogłoszeniach o pracę, a wskazane lokalizacje mogą stanowić potencjalne miejsce wykonywania tej roli. Jeśli przedział wynagrodzenia nie jest podany w ogłoszeniu dla konkretnej lokalizacji lub kraju, odpowiednie informacje o wynagrodzeniu zostaną omówione w trakcie procesu rekrutacyjnego. Prosimy pamiętać, że poziom wynagrodzenia różni się w zależności od kraju i jest ustalany na podstawie umiejętności, doświadczenia, poziomu wykształcenia oraz rynkowego poziomu wynagrodzenia dla danego stanowiska. Oferty są zazwyczaj przedstawiane w granicach wskazanego przedziału, z uwzględnieniem umiejętności, doświadczenia i kwalifikacji kandydata, przy czym górna granica jest zwykle zarezerwowana dla kandydatów o bardzo dużym doświadczeniu lub w innych wyjątkowych okolicznościach zgodnych z tymi kryteriami.

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

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