Responsibilities
The PaPM Lead will be responsible for:
- Leading the end-to-end design, build, testing, and deployment of SAP PaPM solutions.
- Driving solution design for cost allocation, revenue allocation, planning, forecasting, profitability analysis, and what-if simulations.
- Reviewing business requirements and translating them into PaPM functional and technical design.
- Leading PaPM model configuration, data integration, calculation logic, allocation rules, enrichment, validation, and reporting outputs.
- Providing guidance to PaPM consultants on modelling approach, configuration standards, performance optimization, and troubleshooting.
- Integrating PaPM with SAP S/4HANA, SAP BW/BW4HANA, and other relevant data sources.
- Ensuring PaPM outputs are validated, reconciled, and aligned with finance and business expectations.
- Supporting SIT, UAT, end-to-end testing, defect resolution, cutover, and go-live activities.
- Working with Finance, FP&A, IT, and project stakeholders to manage design decisions, risks, issues, and dependencies.
- Supporting knowledge transfer and handover to AMS / BAU support teams.
Key Skills Required
- Strong hands-on experience in SAP PaPM modelling and configuration.
- Proven experience leading SAP PaPM implementation projects.
- Strong understanding of cost allocation, revenue allocation, profitability, planning, and forecasting processes.
- Experience with PaPM functions such as Calculation, Allocation, Enrichment, Validation, Joins, Views, and What-If Simulation.
- Strong experience in data integration from SAP S/4HANA and SAP BW/BW4HANA.
- Good finance knowledge, including P&L, cost centers, profit centers, products, customers, and management reporting.
- Ability to review and validate PaPM results and reconcile outputs with source systems.
- Strong performance tuning, troubleshooting, and error handling experience.
- Experience supporting SIT, UAT, go-live, and post-go-live support.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and team leadership skills.
Preferred Experience
- Prior experience as a PaPM Lead or senior PaPM consultant in large-scale SAP transformation projects.
- Experience working in finance transformation, integrated planning, or performance management projects.
- Experience with SAP SAC, BPC, BW, or S/4HANA Finance would be an advantage.
- Ability to onboard within short notice and work in a fast-paced project environment.
