Associate Director, Finance - G&A FP&A

About the role

The Associate Director will serve as a strategic finance partner to leaders across the Corporate Affairs & Legal organization. The role will lead forecasting and budgeting, decision support and analysis, management reporting, and process improvement initiatives. Success requires the ability to interact with and present effectively to senior leaders across Finance, Corporate Affairs, and Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Responsibility.

As an Associate Director, Finance - G&A FP&A at Gilead, you will...

Essential Responsibilities

• Lead planning and forecasting: Own the three-year long-range plan, annual operating plan, periodic forecasts, and scenario analyses for Corporate Affairs, Legal & Compliance, Corporate Responsibility, and Corporate Jets. Translate business strategies and operating assumptions into well-supported financial plans and provide clear recommendations on resource allocation, trade-offs, and investment priorities.
• Oversee consolidation and reporting: Lead the end-to-end consolidation of budgets. Deliver accurate, timely, and decision-ready management reporting packages that meet functional and corporate requirements.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner: Build strong partnerships with senior leaders across the supported functions, Accounting, and Global FP&A Consolidations, providing objective guidance, constructive challenges, and practical solutions.
• Drive performance management: Analyze results and forecasts, identify key drivers, risks, and opportunities, and partner with leaders on actions to meet financial goals.
• Develop executive insights: Distill complex financial and operational data into clear presentations highlighting implications, recommendations, and decisions.
• Build financial models: Evaluate strategic initiatives, scenarios, investments, and business needs through modeling and sensitivity analysis.
• Support close activities: Partner with Accounting and the business to review accruals, validate results, investigate variances, and communicate performance.
• Improve processes and systems: Lead initiatives that enhance planning, reporting, data quality, and efficiency, including the Corporate Responsibility system implementation.
• Strengthen governance and controls: Ensure compliance with policies and controls, address gaps, and protect financial reporting integrity.
• Manage priorities and ad hoc requests: Deliver high-priority analyses and projects while balancing recurring work, emerging needs, accuracy, and responsiveness.

Key Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal skills: an inquisitive mind, and the ability to work effectively with multiple functions are required. Ability to quickly establish credibility with diverse audiences and be perceived as a leader is required.
• Business Savvy and Financial Acumen: The candidate will possess technical knowledge on analytics, business foresight, and problem-solving skills.
• Results Orientation: The ideal candidate will be results-driven and must thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You must have the ability to deliver results and possess a strong drive to meet and exceed goals and are willing to take ownership of problems and make sound decisions.
• Change Leadership: The candidate will be an independent self-starter and a proactive leader with a drive to strive for continuous improvement and consistently challenging the status quo. Will be viewed by business partners and Finance colleagues as a thought leader with strong, influencing capabilities, who can also maintain open and transparent communication channels.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and Ten Years' Experience
• OR
• Masters' Degree and Eight Years' Experience
• OR
• PhD and Two Years' Experience

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP experience
• Experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience working in a multinational organization.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Demonstrated success in a deadline-driven, multitasking environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

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 them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and 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.

Pay and benefits

The salary range for this position is: $182,070.00 - $235,620.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.

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• Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Your Rights Under the Family and Medical Leave Act

Gilead Sciences will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, (c) consistent with the legal duty to furnish information; or (d) otherwise protected by law.

• Our environment respects individual differences and recognizes each employee as an integral member of our company. Our workforce reflects these values and celebrates the individuals who make up our growing team.
• Gilead provides a work environment free of harassment and prohibited conduct. We promote and support individual differences and diversity of thoughts and opinion.

For Current Gilead Employees and Contractors

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