Exec Director, ACE Head of Commercial Finance

2 weeks ago

Uxbridge, United Kingdom Gilead Sciences Europe Ltd. Full time

Description

The ED, ACE Head of Commercial Finance will lead a team of ~100 professionals and partner closely with the SVP ACE Commercial to drive a ~$4B revenue business across dozens of markets. This leader will be a thought partner to the SVP ACE Commercial and senior leadership team to drive strategic, operational, and financial analyses to facilitate quality decision making and resource allocation. This person will be responsible for demonstrating strong cross-functional communication, influencing, and strategic thinking skills that will drive value for the ACE business and Gilead.

This position reports to the VP and Head of Commercial Finance, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the SVP ACE Commercial. This role will sit on both the Commercial Finance Leadership Team (CFLT) and ACE Leadership Team (ALT).

 Core Responsibilities:

Maintain a culture of compliance and controllership across the region

Lead the strategic and operational budgets/forecasts, generating new insights and analytics to drive growth and profitability across the region

Drive resource allocation and profitability by thoughtfully managing opex investments, including a close partnership with procurement to drive increased productivity/efficiency of investments

Oversee the month-end close processes, including the Gross to Net revenue process, expense accruals, management reporting, and budget vs. actual variance analysis. 

Partner with Accounting and Commercial teams to analyze and influence complex contract/pricing proposals

Monitor and develop insights from key business drivers including demand, pricing, and inventory

Provide ad-hoc analyses and project support for the executive leadership team

Lead and empower a group of senior finance leaders; develop a highly capable and diverse team through the attraction, training, and development of professionals and culture to exceed business needs and create Gilead’s future enterprise leaders

Regularly interacts with Gilead’s senior management on matters concerning several functional areas.

Requirements:

BS or BA is required and an MBA or CPA is strongly preferred

Extensive finance leadership experience with increasing scope and responsibility, with solid management experience

Prior experience in biotech or pharma in a commercial finance leadership role is required; strong preference for major biopharma finance leadership roles in the US and ex-US.

In-depth proficiency in aspects of accounting and finance and knowledge of US GAAP is required

Experience in high growth, multinational organization is a plus

Competencies:

Team-based and collaborative work style. Looks to work with others to deliver results. Open and transparent approach to business issues and challenges. Unwavering ethical standards; drives excellence and innately collaborative.

Having exceptional executive presence that can relate to people at all levels of the organization with superior listening, communication and influencing skills. Has the gravitas and sophistication to appropriately command the room.

Excellent interpersonal skills: an inquisitive mind, and the ability to work effectively with multiple functions are 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. They must have the ability to deliver results and possess a strong drive to meet and exceed goals and is willing to take ownership of problems and make sound decisions.

Team Leadership: Demonstrates ability to align and motivate a team to achieve objectives including financial results, timely and accurate reporting, transparency, and controls. They will lead, attract, train & develop a team of highly capable skilled finance professionals to support the Commercial business.

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.

Gilead Core Values

Integrity (Doing What’s Right)

Inclusion (Encouraging Diversity)

Teamwork (Working Together)

Excellence (Being Your Best)

Accountability (Taking Personal Responsibility)

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.


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