Associate Director - Master Data Governance

at  Gilead Sciences

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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.
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Job Description
About us
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead’s therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.
Being here matters. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the workplace every day, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives.
About the Role
Data Management plays a critical part in Evergreen to build a solid data foundation through data standardization and harmonization: a critical part of Data Management Governance is to ensure we are enabling the compliance to regulatory requirements pertaining data and AI, translate activities into workflows and effective requirements, monitor proactively risks and compliance, establish and maintain governance processes across the SAP Landscape.
This role reporting to the Director Operational Excellence is part of Business Process and Delivery organization and principally serves as Master Data Governance Lead, with responsibility for the operationalization of data governance across the SAP ecosystem and is empowered to make decisions on behalf of the Business Data Owner. This role defines and enforces policies and procedures for managing data assets, including enterprise data structure, data quality, data stewardship, and reference data security.
You will ensure the oversight and integrity of master data, specifically (but not exclusively) in the context of our SAP ERP sustainment model as well as the implementation of our SAP S/4 system 3rd release. The successful candidate will ensure the timeliness and quality of deliverables whilst collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders globally including, but not limited to, FP&A, Controllership, Tax, HR, Procurement, IT, Supply Chain, and external consultants. This role will drive global data and analytics to enable decision making in support of our enterprise data governance model.
This also has responsibility for designing and implementing the overall MDM governance architecture and interfaces, including critical data integration, data modelling, and data migration for both finance master data and enterprise data. This role will work with other data stewards to create alignment and horizontal integration of data and information across all appropriate business areas.
This key position will also be responsible for helping lead the delivery of programs and projects associated with Gilead’s SAP S/4 and will have a primary focus on championing the implementation and operational success for our Data Governance initiatives.
This is a senior and key position, thus requiring the following skills, such as:
Familiarity with the concepts and strategies of
change management
.
Excellent communication skills
, both written and verbal.
Communication with staff at all levels within the organization (including upper management, and ability to make presentations).
Ability
to be a leader
, develop relationships, provide direction and oversight, make decisions, and educate others.
Demonstrated ability to resolve complex problems/problem solving skills (examples should be cited in letter of intro and during interview.
A commitment to professional
ethical standards
within a diverse workplace.
An understanding of
Agile and DevOps philosophies
Promote the adoption of changes needed within the organization to support the new Data Governance program.
Demonstrated consulting skills (have advised customers/potential customers).

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the overall data management and analytics strategy including data governance, collection, transformation, modeling, quality, and reporting.
• Review and classify inventory of data across the enterprise and identify core master data and associated hierarchies/taxonomy and lifecycle events.
• Design and implement finance, as well as finance-dependent data management and analytics to drive decision making.
• Oversee the management of financial reporting hierarchy, including periodic review of financial data governance process and management of the cost center, profit center and chart of accounts.
• Assessing and developing a plan for governance of different data sets: reference data, master data, transactional data, data products.
• Evaluate the necessity and accuracy of financial hierarchy and chart of accounts changes resulting from various business changes, including business structure changes and acquisitions.
• Monitor management reporting to ensure compliance with management financial reporting governance policies, processes, and controls; work to ensure accurate and consistent financial reporting.
• Create and implement methods for monitoring and reporting any data incidents.
• Maintain the applicable definition documentation; manage the process to ensure all additions and changes are vetted, aligned, and effectively managed and communicated.
• As required, support budgeting and forecasting activities and lead non-routine special projects.

Required:

• Expertise with SAP – especially S/4 – data governance initiatives highly desired.
• Comprehensive knowledge and industry experience of finance systems, master data management (MDM), data and attributes.
• Excellent strategic thinking, planning and problem-solving skills with the ability to respond to changing priorities.
• Extensive experience of SAP Data Governance related projects and technology-driven solutions
• Proven success in developing and executing business vision or strategies, continuous improvement, analytics & advanced technologies to improve core governance values.
• Proven track record of understanding business challenges and translating them into value-add solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to make sound business decisions using good business judgment and innovative and creative problem-solving.
• Proven leadership capabilities, effective stakeholder management and capacity to defend strategic decisions with respect to data governance.
• A track record of success in anticipating the future data needs of the organization.
• Demonstrated abilities around communicating, reporting, and presenting to leadership.
• Proficiency with relational databases and structure design.
• Proven ability to manage, supervise and motivate others.
• Track record of success managing multiple projects at once.

Knowledge / Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or related area. MBA a plus, Project Management a plus
• Extensive amount of finance reporting and analysis and/or accounting work experience, with management and systems experience.
• Extensive experience with/in Master Data Governance – ideally in SAP.
• Hands on experience/expertise in Master Data Governance including (but not limited to): Material Master, Finance Master Data Objects, Customer, Vendor
• 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 with SAP and Oracle EBS preferred.
• Experience in dashboard platforms (Tableau, Power BI, Spotfire).
• Must be fluent in English (written and spoken).

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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• Define and execute the overall data management and analytics strategy including data governance, collection, transformation, modeling, quality, and reporting.
• Review and classify inventory of data across the enterprise and identify core master data and associated hierarchies/taxonomy and lifecycle events.
• Design and implement finance, as well as finance-dependent data management and analytics to drive decision making.
• Oversee the management of financial reporting hierarchy, including periodic review of financial data governance process and management of the cost center, profit center and chart of accounts.
• Assessing and developing a plan for governance of different data sets: reference data, master data, transactional data, data products.
• Evaluate the necessity and accuracy of financial hierarchy and chart of accounts changes resulting from various business changes, including business structure changes and acquisitions.
• Monitor management reporting to ensure compliance with management financial reporting governance policies, processes, and controls; work to ensure accurate and consistent financial reporting.
• Create and implement methods for monitoring and reporting any data incidents.
• Maintain the applicable definition documentation; manage the process to ensure all additions and changes are vetted, aligned, and effectively managed and communicated.
• As required, support budgeting and forecasting activities and lead non-routine special projects