PaPM Platform Lead - Finance Optimization & Governance

mars; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars is seeking a PaPM Platform & Process Lead to drive design, deployment, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP PaPM solutions supporting global finance and operations. You will partner with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, sustainable and governance-aligned outcomes.

In this role, you will lead analysis, data modeling, and integration efforts, while championing data quality, performance analytics, and enterprise transformation initiatives across

Qualifications

• 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).
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Solution Design & Deployment: Define, design, and deploy scalable PaPM solutions for profitability management, allocations, intercompany cross-charging, and performance reporting.
• Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement: Identify data gaps and inefficiencies, perform root cause analysis, and recommend system improvements.
• Platform Governance & Change Management: Lead governance, testing, documentation, and release management for PaPM models and transports.
• Enterprise Change Impact Assessment: Assess impacts of organizational and data changes on PaPM solutions and recommend enhancements.
• Data Modeling, Analytics & System Integration: Analyze large financial/operational datasets to support design and integration with SAP platforms.

Skills

SAP PaPM

Communication

Collaboration

Presentation skills

Problem solving

Learning agility

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Alteryx

Tableau

Power BI

SAP HANA/SQL

SAP architecture

Job description

Mars is seeking a PaPM Platform & Process Lead to drive design, deployment, governance, and continuous improvement of SAP PaPM solutions supporting global finance and operations. You will partner with Finance, Technology, and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, sustainable and governance-aligned outcomes.

In this role, you will lead analysis, data modeling, and integration efforts, while championing data quality, performance analytics, and enterprise transformation initiatives across