[Hiring] Lead, Finance & Record-to-Report Solutions @Mars

Role Description

Reporting to the Lead, ERP Functionals, you will serve as the functional owner and subject-matter authority for all financial systems across Mars Snacking Accelerator. You will lead financial systems strategy, establish multi-year capability roadmaps, directly line-manage the Finance Functional Analyst, and own the strategic and operational integration between Accelerator’s SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and the Mars enterprise Central Finance (CFIN) platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Core FI & Banking Execution:
  • Configure, implement, and support core FI modules including General Ledger (GL), Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR), Banking, and Asset Accounting.
• Product Costing & Manufacturing Accounting:
  • Design and implement solutions for Product Costing (Material Master, Material Costing, Cost Object Controlling, Product Cost by Period/Order) to accurately track and report manufacturing costs and production variances.
• Intercompany & Process Optimization:
  • Develop and optimize Intercompany processes, including intercompany billing, reconciliation, and eliminations, while driving process harmonization under a "Clean Core" SaaS architecture.
• Finance Strategy & CFIN Ownership:
  • Translate executive finance priorities into automated cloud capabilities.
  • Own the end-to-end integration with Mars Central Finance (CFIN), ensuring real-time financial document replication (FI/CO), AIF error resolution, cost object mapping, and group consolidation integrity.
• Team Leadership & Development:
  • Directly lead, mentor, and oversee the Finance Functional Analyst.
  • Masterfully match the analyst and partner resources to initiatives based on complexity and skill.
• Delivery, AI & Governance:
  • Deliver financial initiatives via SAP Activate using CALM, Jira, and Monday.com.
  • Drive adoption of AI agents (Joule, Copilot) and SAP Situation Handling to automate reconciliations and anomaly detection.
  • Govern AMS support against SLA/KPI metrics (MTTR, close ticket SLAs) and enforce Mars Financial Manual (MFM) standards and RBAC/SoD.

Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years of progressive enterprise ERP experience specializing in financial system design, implementation, and operations; demonstrated experience mentoring and leading functional analysts.
• SAP S/4HANA Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience architecting, configuring, and leading SAP S/4HANA Finance (FI/CO) solutions, with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud experience considered a strong plus.
• Mars Central Finance (CFIN) Integration: Proven experience with or deep functional understanding of SAP Central Finance (CFIN) replication mechanics, AIF error handling, and master data mapping.
• Industry: 5+ years in CPG or Food & Beverage environments (product costing, standard costing variances, inventory valuation, co-manufacturing accounting, trade deduction integration).
• Delivery & Tooling: Experience delivering projects via SAP Activate using SAP Cloud ALM (CALM), Jira, Monday.com, or Smartsheet, combined with AI agent and Situation Handling exception automation.
• Governance & Controls: Strong working knowledge of enterprise financial controls, Mars internal control standards (MFM), role-based security catalogs, and AMS partner SLA management.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice-to-Haves

• Master’s degree, MBA, CPA, or CMA certification.
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance certification or SAP Activate certification.
• Experience with third-party financial platforms (BlackLine, Concur, Vertex/Avalara, banking APIs) or SAP Group Reporting.

Benefits

• Base pay range for this position is between USD 119,040.00 - USD 163,680.00.
• Eligible employees are automatically enrolled in a 401(k) plan.
• Participation in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and eligible dependents.
• May be eligible to take up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 120 hours of vacation per year.
• Paid sick time for eligible Associates of 100% pay continuation for a maximum of 40 hours per calendar year.
• 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year that include both fixed and flexible holidays.