Senior Manager, SOX Compliance and Controls (Global Accounting, Advisory and Reporting)

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Job Description

Senior Manager SOX Compliance and Controls (Global Accounting Advisory and Reporting)

The SOX Compliance team is part of the Controllership group at Gilead and is responsible for the SOX internal controls over financial reporting. This is an audit advisory role with cross-functional involvement with U.S. and international finance teams and business partners. Key areas of responsibility include:

• Design of key controls (business processes interfaces and IT application controls)

• Identification of audit process improvements (automation and use of technology to drive an efficient audit program)

• Financial reporting risk mitigation

• Remediation of identified control deficiencies

As part of this unique business structure the SOX PMO group works closely with external auditors and Gilead Internal audit teams to ensure that the global SOX audit program applies the appropriate audit scope evaluation of financial risk development of controls over complex processes and application of best practices. The team is also responsible for facilitating audit process improvement and leveraging the use of technology to drive efficient and effective audits.

The SOX PMO team is currently working on a multi-year global SAP implementation that involves the redesign of key processes leveraging ERP enhancements evaluation of sophisticated boundary systems and building well designed control frameworks.

This role offers a very good opportunity for team members to transition from public accounting and gain in-depth knowledge over the biopharmaceutical industry overall accounting processes and complex accounting areas.

Important: role involves working Cork local hours with periodic calls in the afternoon to connect with U.S. team members. Limited travel involved. Extensive exposure to multiple audit areas in the U.S. (Corporate) and E.U.

Key Knowledge and Skills

Comprehensive knowledge and experience working on SOX audit including:

• Assessment of audit risks inherent risk and controls risk

• Understanding of appropriate audit evidence and documentation

• Materiality assessments

• Audit planning and coordination based on risk and complexity

• Auditing of complex areas including significant estimates areas of judgement and controls that use prospective financial information

• Evaluating results of the audit and determining if adjustments are required due to changes in business and overall internal/external risk factors.

Experience and expertise in working thought areas of audit judgment including:

• Assessment of potential control deficiencies

• Evaluation of aggregation risks

• Process stabilization and overall improvement of audit strategy.

Experience and expertise in the design and execution of complex management review controls:

• Design of management review controls and specific attributes

• Evaluation of expectations (how are expectations developed and reviewed as part of the control activity)

• Experience guiding teams on the level of appropriate evidence required for management review controls and overall level of precision

• Consideration when using estimates and forecasts

Audit experience with complex accounting areas including:

• Revenue / Gross-to-Net

• Treasury and Stock Admin

• Pharmaceutical development and manufacturing

Strong technical acumen:

• Comprehensive understanding of US GAAP and overall accounting knowledge

• Comfort and experience auditing all core audit areas (significant financial statement line items and SEC reporting disclosures).

Technical experience with SAP environment and controls consideration:

• Development of segregation of duties rule sets

• SAP IT application controls

• Design and audit of key reports

Additional Considerations

• Having relevant working experience on internal controls and SOX compliance (strongly prefer external audit experience - including leading complex multi-national audit engagements)

• Partnering with the business process owners during design modification or streamlining of processes and controls for a more efficient/effective control environment

• Ensuring appropriate documentation of internal controls analysis to comply with SOX requirements and/or internal policy

• Partnering with and/or becoming the liaison between business process owners and Internal Audit and External Audit during resolution of control findings

• Developing and producing reports on SOX related project status trends and remediation of deficiencies as needed

• Partnering with IT SOX team to ensure appropriate IT controls design on current and/or future state processes

• Maintaining a positive attitude and embracing change -- learn new technology (SAP data analytics and reporting tools)

• Being a self-starter that can solve problems independently and works proactively to identify advocate for and execute improvements

• Interest in joining and fun and dynamic team

Educational Requirements Additional Considerations and Experience

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in business Finance or Accounting and extensive amount of experience.

• CPA with experience working on multinational audits is strongly preferred

• Strong planning project management and analytical skills

• Excellent leadership communication and influencing skills

• Proficiency in US GAAP and general accounting policies and procedures is required

• Proficiency with Microsoft tool (Excel Outlook and Word) required

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 individuals 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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