PaPM Platform Lead

Job Description:

The PaPM Platform & Process Lead is responsible for leading the design, deployment, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) solutions supporting global finance and operational processes.

This role serves as a trusted partner to Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders, providing both functional and technical leadership across profitability management, allocations, transfer pricing, intercompany cross-charging, and performance analytics. The role combines deep business process expertise with strong platform knowledge to ensure solutions remain scalable, sustainable, and aligned to enterprise objectives.

The position plays a critical role in supporting enterprise transformation initiatives by assessing impacts to existing PaPM solutions, leading analysis activities, and driving solution enhancements that improve financial insights, data quality, and operational effectiveness.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 6+ years finance, accounting, financial systems, or analytics experience.
• Minimum 3+ years SAP PaPM, financial systems, consulting, developer, or solution delivery experience.
• Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Proven experience designing and supporting allocation methodologies, profitability management processes, and financial data models.
• Proficiency in data analytics tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI or similar) and SAP HANA/SQL concepts.
• Experience with SAP architecture, enterprise integrations, testing, transport management, release governance, and change management processes (preferred)
• SAP certification in Profitability and Performance Management or related SAP solutions (preferred).
• Strong functional finance knowledge and understanding of profitability management processes, including cost allocations, transfer pricing, profitability reporting, and performance management.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and supporting SAP PaPM solutions, financial data models, business rules, and allocation methodologies.
• Knowledge of SAP architecture, enterprise data structures, integration concepts, and related SAP platforms (e.g., SAP Central Finance, S/4HANA, MDG, BW) preferred.
• Experience evaluating business requirements, performing impact assessments, and translating complex business needs into scalable process and technology solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience performing root cause analysis, identifying risks and dependencies, and driving sustainable process improvements.
• Experience working across cross-functional teams, external partners, and global organizations while effectively communicating and influencing stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies, manage ambiguity, and support testing, transport management, release governance, and change management activities.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Solution Design & Deployment: Partner with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to define, design, and deploy scalable PaPM solutions supporting profitability management, cost allocations, transfer pricing, intercompany cross-charging, and performance reporting requirements. Act as a trusted advisor by evaluating requirements, constructively challenging assumptions, assessing impacts across finance processes, data, and systems, and recommending sustainable solutions that balance business needs, technical constraints, and governance requirements.
• Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify data gaps, process inefficiencies, allocation anomalies, and control weaknesses through analysis and stakeholder engagement. Perform root cause analysis, assess business impacts, and recommend sustainable process and system improvements that enhance data quality, transparency, operational effectiveness, and user adoption. Collaborate with DT, Operate, and internal and external delivery teams to identify risks, escalate issues, and coordinate resolution activities across both business-as-usual operations and strategic initiatives.
• Platform Governance & Change Management: Lead governance and change management activities related to PaPM models, transports, testing, documentation, and release management. Ensure adherence to development standards, change control processes, and compliance requirements while driving deployment readiness, regression testing, and solution quality.
• Enterprise Change Impact Assessment: Assess the impact of organizational, process, master data, ERP, and reporting changes on existing PaPM solutions. Lead impact assessments, identify risks and dependencies, and recommend enhancements required to maintain process integrity and business outcomes.
• Data Modeling, Analytics & System Integration: Analyze large and complex financial and operational datasets to support solution design, scenario modeling, regression testing, and performance optimization. Serve as a technical subject matter expert for PaPM platform integrations with SAP S/4HANA, Central Finance, MDG, BW, Data Lake, and other enterprise systems by troubleshooting data flows, resolving integration and performance issues, validating end-to-end processing, and ensuring platform reliability and scalability.
• Operational Support & Platform Reliability: Provide functional and technical leadership during period-end activities by monitoring process execution, troubleshooting production issues, validating results, and ensuring timely and accurate delivery of profitability and allocation outputs. Coordinate resolution of critical incidents and support platform stability through operational monitoring and service management practices.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Capability Building: Build strong partnerships with Finance, Technology, and business teams by facilitating workshops, providing guidance on PaPM capabilities, supporting training initiatives, documenting best practices, and mentoring team members to strengthen organizational capability, knowledge sharing and platform adoption.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the range listed below, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position will include variable pay, medical and dental benefits, participation in 401k plan, and paid time off benefits. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an applicant receives an offer of employment.

The pay range shown is applicable to all US locations listed within the job posting:USD 153,600.00 - USD 211,200.00