Lead, Finance & Record-to-Report; R2R) Solutions

Who We Are
Accelerator is Mars Snacking's growth engine, unlocking potential across high-growth brands like KIND®, RXBAR®, Eggo, and Pop-Tarts. We combine Mars' scale with the agility of a startup, driving innovation through data, automation, and AI. If you thrive in an inspiring, entrepreneurial environment, join us.

Job Description :

Who We Are
Accelerator is Mars Snacking's growth engine, unlocking potential across high-growth brands like KIND®, RXBAR®, Eggo, and Pop-Tarts. We combine Mars' scale with the agility of a startup, driving innovation through data, automation, and AI. If you thrive in an inspiring, entrepreneurial environment, join us.


The Role
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/4

HANA Public Cloud and the Mars enterprise Central Finance (CFIN) platform
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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  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.

• 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/4
  
  HANA Expertise:
  Extensive hands-on experience architecting, configuring, and leading SAP S/4
  
  HANA Finance (FI/CO) solutions, with SAP S/4
  
  HANA 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, , or Smartsheet, combined with AI agent and Situation Handling exception automation.
• Governance & Controls:
  Strong working knowledge of enterprise financial controls, Mars…