CFIN Regional Expert – NA/LATAM

Job Description:

As a member of the COE (Center of Excellence) for CFin, or Central Finance (our new global reporting platform), you will act as a regional functional expert owning and further developing the expertise for your area and ensure strong knowledge management. You will manage related tasks for supporting our business units with critical functional knowledge and provide ongoing business support (period close, reconciliations, error handling, data quality, continuous improvement projects, etc). Engage cross-functionally with others within FinTech as well as Digital Technologies, MGSF (Mars Global Services Finance) and the business units to ensure the integrity of our data across Central Finance.

What are we looking for?

• 5+ years of business experience in Finance

• 5+ years of data and SAP R3 experience

• Profound SAP Central Finance experience, via the CFin deployment project a plus

• Solid understanding of Mars’ data model and Mars’ business model

• Functional finance skills in the space of our SAP and reporting systems

• Strong knowledge of our business processes and SAP templates (Atlas, Trinity, Fusion…)

• Demonstrated ability to work cross functionally and manage relationships with business stakeholders

• Ability to communicate in an open and honest way, to quickly build trust and respect

• Needs to be a self-motivated, high-energy individual who can easily function in a performance-driven and ambiguous environment

What would be your key responsibilities?

• Own error handling for functional or complex mapping issues – analyzing problems and finding root causes, to deliver globally standardized solutions

• Identify and escalate issues to respective teams and prepare effective mitigation options

• Perform risk management to minimize jeopardizing our period close processes and deadlines

• Engage and collaborate with subject matter experts in MGSF and business units on issue resolution, enhancement requests, knowledge transfer

• Co-own standard & complex mapping across all finance data elements (chart of accounts, cost centers, profit centers, etc.)

• Partner in the process of master data creation/changes to support the needs of the business and apply data reclasses/corrections as needed to uphold the integrity of the data in Central Finance

• Improve processes and increase efficiency to the CFin production system by leading regional CIP (continuous improvement) projects including design, development, documentation, testing and training

• Develop, deliver and own specific training materials on Central Finance operational and reconciliation processes

• Lead the CFin COE workstream on company code deployments from inception to go-live on One Source of Truth (OSOT)

• Perform CFin regional testing for periodic changes, system fixes, enhancements and upgrades

• Report and escalate remediation opportunities to improve processes and lessen data quality issues in our current environment and for future deployments

• Support changes coming out of project implementations in a business-as-usual capacity

Mission Critical Competencies

• Collaboration & Partnering

• Drives Results

• Manages Ambiguity

• Problem solving

Functional Skills and Competencies

• Functional finance skills in the space of our SAP and reporting systems

• Very good understanding of our SAP templates (Atlas, Trinity, Fusion…)

• Strong knowledge of our financial processes particularly in the space of ERP and reporting