SAP Finance and Controlling - Senior Manager - IT Business Systems in Uxbridge

Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company pursuing breakthroughs in medicine with operations in more than 35 countries worldwide. The company is committed to scientific invention to prevent and treat life‑threatening diseases, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and cancer. You will be part of a team that is helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Inclusion is a core value, creating a work environment where differences are valued and everyone feels respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.

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.

• 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: Recognises 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 organisation’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.

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

• 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).