Assoc Director, Finance - FP & A

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Job Description

Kite is transitioning from its current Santa Monica headquarters, with employees expected to relocate to our Thousand Oaks, CA, Foster City, CA or El Segundo, CA office beginning in January 2027. While this role will be based in Santa Monica through 2026, applicants should take this planned relocation into consideration. Kite supports a flexible working policy, offering a balanced approach with two days of remote working and three days working onsite.

The Associate Director will serve as a strategic finance partner to leaders across the Kite organization. The role will lead forecasting and budgeting, decision support and analysis, management reporting, and process improvement initiatives. Success requires the ability to interact with and present effectively to senior leaders across Kite.

As an Associate Director, Kite Corporate FP&A, you will...

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead planning and forecasting: Own the long-range plan (LRP), Annual Budget, periodic forecasts, and scenario analyses for Kite. Translate business strategies and operating assumptions into well-supported financial plans and provide clear recommendations on resource allocation, trade-offs, and investment priorities.
• Oversee consolidation and reporting: Lead the end-to-end consolidation of budgets, forecasts and actuals. Deliver accurate, timely, and decision-ready management reporting packages that meet functional and corporate requirements.
• Serve as a strategic finance partner: Build strong partnerships with senior leaders across the supported functions, Accounting, and Gilead Global FP&A Consolidations, providing objective guidance, constructive challenges, and practical solutions.
• Drive performance management: Analyze results and forecasts, identify key drivers, risks, and opportunities, and partner with leaders on actions to meet financial goals.
• Develop executive insights: Distill complex financial and operational data into clear presentations highlighting implications, recommendations, and decisions.
• Build financial models: Evaluate strategic initiatives, scenarios, investments, and business needs through modeling and sensitivity analysis.
• Support close activities: Partner with Accounting and the business to review accruals, validate results, investigate variances, and communicate performance.
• Improve processes and systems: Lead initiatives that enhance planning, reporting, data quality, and efficiency, including Future of Finance initiatives.
• Strengthen governance and controls: Ensure compliance with policies and controls, address gaps, and protect financial reporting integrity.
• Manage priorities and ad hoc requests: Deliver high-priority analyses and projects while balancing recurring work, emerging needs, accuracy, and responsiveness.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal skills: an inquisitive mind, and the ability to work effectively with multiple functions are required. Ability to quickly establish credibility with diverse audiences and be perceived as a leader is 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. You must have the ability to deliver results and possess a strong drive to meet and exceed goals and are willing to take ownership of problems and make sound decisions.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree and Ten Years' Experience

OR

Masters' Degree and Eight Years' Experience

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP experience
• Experience in the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience working in a multinational organization.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities.

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