Senior IT Architect

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 Summary: The role for S4/Hana Finance and controlling takes ownership of the SAP Finance and Controlling (FICO) module, ensuring seamless system configuration, integration, and optimization. This role requires hands-on expertise in SAP FICO processes, system configuration, and cross-functional module integration, along with strong leadership skills to manage stakeholders, external vendors, and compliance requirements.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Hands-on configuration knowledge of SAP FICO modules, including: GL, AP, AR, Cost Element Accounting, Cost center, Profit center accounting, COPA (Profitability Analysis) and a strong knowledge of Product Costing.
• Strong understanding of FI-MM and FI-SD integration and their impact on financial processes.
• Expertise in cross-module functionalities to drive end-to-end business process efficiency.
• Ability to design, configure, and troubleshoot SAP FICO processes in a validated (GxP-compliant) environment.
• Experience in release management, ensuring high-quality system enhancements and changes.
• Drive system documentation excellence in compliance with GxP and other regulatory requirements.
• Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Finance is a plus.
• Experience in leading system upgrades, patches, and enhancements while ensuring minimal business disruption.
• Work with cross-functional teams to design best-in-class financial solutions for the organization.
• Maintain system stability, performance, and security by following SAP best practices.
• Understand the system ecology and its financial interfaces with legacy systems (Oracle/Hyperion) and SAP components (E-Hana, SAC-P, Analysis for Office, Webi).
• Build effective relationships with business subject matter experts and senior leadership to facilitate accurate solutions.

Adaptability/ Flexibility: Adapts to change, is open to new ideas, takes on new responsibilities, handles pressure, and adjusts plans to meet changing needs.

Business Focus: Builds business partner confidence, is committed to increasing business unit satisfaction, sets achievable business expectations, assumes responsibility for solving problems, ensures commitments to business needs are met, solicits opinions and ideas from business partners, responds to internal business needs with appropriate sense of urgency.

Decision Making/ Judgment: Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, and communicates decisions to others.

Organizational Savvy: Operates within the organization's formal and informal structures, builds allies and relationships across departments, uses allies to build consensus and create results, is appropriately diplomatic, and understands others' roles and perspectives.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or similar field or relevant professional experience.

Qualification: Extensive experience in delivering Enterprise level SAP Finance and controlling solutions including S/4 experience, with strong preference for pharmaceutical industry experience. Proficiency in SAP Cost Accounting configuration and testing in all major areas. Professional certifications (SAP FICO, PMP, CMA, etc.) are a plus. Familiarity with segregation of duty (Sox) and background in cost accounting is highly desirable. Excellent problem solving, and analytical abilities combined with advanced Excel spreadsheet skills. Superior communication, presentation, change leadership and management skills are required. Highly motivated, committed to driving change and to continually improving processes and results. Commercially aware and adept at communicating across a wide number of departments and at managing priorities and multiple tasks to meet deadlines in time critical periods. Must be an independent self-starter who is effective in a fast-paced environment with the ability to quickly establish credibility with, and influence, diverse audiences. Experience in dashboard platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Spotfire) is desirable. Must be fluent in English (written and spoken).