It seems from your example that the key parts of the URL structure are staying the same.
2016/5/document.pdf
That means you could use a plugin like ‘Better Search Replace’ (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/).
Simply choose to replace:
www.example.com/files/ with www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/#/
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