Specialist – Tech Capability (SAP PAPM)

About the role

This position is responsible for maintaining stability and operational continuity within an SAP Finance environment, ensuring tight SLAs, clear ownership, and minimal business disruption.

Key responsibilities

• Drive the transition of Finance support services from Oracle to SAP, ensuring business continuity and platform stability.
• Establish scalable BAU processes for SAP post‑implementation, including incident, change, enhancement, and user support workflows.
• Design, configure, and implement SAP PAPM solutions to support profitability analysis across shared services and country management.
• Embed a governance framework for continuous improvement, backlog management, and visibility on change investment decisions.
• Enable cross‑functional collaboration between IT and Finance and serve as the strategic liaison for transformation initiatives.
• Deliver real‑time financial reporting, simplify data models, and leverage AI‑driven automation and auto‑reconciliation.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of hands‑on experience implementing and supporting SAP PAPM or SAP Profitability and Cost Management.
• Strong understanding of profitability analysis, cost allocation methodologies and performance management frameworks.
• Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling modules.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills in English.

Required skills

• SAP PAPM / SAP Profitability and Cost Management.
• SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling.
• HANA data modeling using HANAStudio/WebIDE, CDS Views and AMDP.
• Remote Function Calls (RFC), Smart Data Access/Integration (SDA/SDI), OData services.
• SQL scripting for HANA.
• Experience with cloud storage (Azure Blob, Amazon S3, Google BigQuery) and DataSphere integration.