About Gilead
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.
We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.
Job Description
As a Sr. Manager - R&D Finance FP&A, at Gilead you will ...
Key Responsibilities:
- Establishing strong business partnerships with business stakeholders to provide comprehensive financial support.
- Leading planning and month-end close cycles for the respective functional areas, ensuring accuracy and streamlined processes.
- Managing the delivery of accurate and timely management reporting including functional expenses and resource reporting.
- Driving the development of meaningful financial insights and creating effective presentations to communicate conclusions and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Conducting financial and resource modeling to support tactical and strategic decision making (e.g., business case development, cost analysis, and sensitivity analysis).
- Driving the development and implementation of key process improvement initiatives including proactively engaging with Finance colleagues and business partners.
- Providing advice and training to business partners on improvements to budget management.
- Leading, executing, or supporting various ad hoc projects/initiatives within Finance and business network.
The Key Competencies for This Candidate Are:
- AI-Enabled Finance Transformation: Champion the use of AI tools to improve forecasting, reporting, and decision support. Drive adoption through strong change management, ensuring solutions deliver measurable business impact and enhance stakeholder decision-making.
- Excellent communication skills: ability to tailor messages to various audiences, oscillating between detail and big picture to tell the executive level story.
- Strong business partnership skills: ability to build rapport and credibility with business stakeholders and effectively manage expectations with stakeholders of all levels in the Business and within Finance
- Business savviness and financial acumen: technical knowledge on analytics, business foresight, problem-solving skills, and ability to translate ambiguity to clarity.
- Results orientation: ability to deliver results and a strong drive to meet and exceed goals; willingness to take ownership of recommendations and to make sound decisions.
- Continuous improvement approach: proactively generate and translate ideas to action to drive an improvement; ability to challenge the status quo.
- Self-starter with initiative and drive.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree and Eight Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Six Years' Experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, having held positions of increasing scope and responsibility.
- Experience with Month-End Close activities and Management Reporting (e.g., Journal Entry Preparation, Analysis, Commentary, Budget-vs-Actuals Reporting).
- Experience in Financial Planning (e.g., Budgeting / Forecasting) processes across Operating Expenses (OPEX), Headcount (HC) management and a grasp of forecasting methods and techniques.
- Advanced proficiency in AI-based tools, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint with familiarity of SAP, SAC-P, and Analysis for Office a plus.BS/BA is required, MBA or CPA is a plus.
- Experience in R&D Finance, biotech, or pharmaceuticals industry a plus, but not required.
People Leader Accountabilities :
- Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
- Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach themoncurrent performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receivingthe feedbackand insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.
- Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.
