SAP PaPM Functional SME

Your role

"The PaPM Functional Delivery Lead supports the delivery of the Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) capability within the ampliFi program, with accountability for ensuring that profitability, performance, and cost outcomes are delivered in line with UBS finance principles, governance, and control standards. The role is responsible for driving disciplined execution across functional design, business model validation, data readiness, testing, and production transition for PaPM scope, ensuring that performance results are transparent, explainable, and fit for management decision‑making.
The role partners closely with Finance, Data, Integration, and Technology stakeholders and acts as a functional representative for Finance and performance consumers within the delivery. It ensures that business requirements for profitability and performance measurement are translated into well‑controlled, sustainable PaPM solutions aligned with the target finance and analytics architecture.

Key Responsibilities
- Support end‑to‑end functional delivery for assigned PaPM workstreams or modules within the ampliFi finance and analytics stack, with clear ownership of outcomes.
- Contribute to and review functional designs and PaPM models to ensure alignment with agreed finance use cases, performance measurement principles, and cost and profitability logic.
- Ensure that PaPM calculations, allocations, and outputs are transparent, explainable, and aligned with Finance expectations and management reporting needs.
- Develop and maintain delivery plans covering functional scope, milestones, dependencies, and impacts across PaPM data sourcing, calculations, and downstream consumption.
- Proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies (RAID), with a focus on calculation integrity, data quality, business interpretability, and operational readiness, escalating where required.
- Coordinate day‑to‑day delivery across Finance, Data, Integration, Testing, and Deployment teams to ensure coherent end‑to‑end execution and alignment on functional priorities.
- Ensure adherence to agreed delivery standards, finance principles, model design decisions, and change control processes across PaPM scope.
- Support SIT and UAT execution from a functional perspective, including validation of business scenarios, review of calculation results, assessment of defects based on finance impact, and support for business sign‑off.
- Assist with production readiness and cutover preparation, focusing on stability of calculations, consistency of results, reconciliation where applicable, and smooth transition to business‑as‑usual operations.
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Your team

"You will join the SAP Transformation team, working closely with Group Finance, Finance Domain Leads, Design Authority, Data & Integration Architecture, and Testing, Deployment and Change teams.
You will operate in a highly collaborative, matrix environment, influencing across business and technology functions, and partnering with senior stakeholders to drive alignment and successful delivery at scale."

Your expertise

"Required Experience & Skills
- Strong experience delivering finance performance management and profitability capabilities within large‑scale transformation programs; hands on functional experience in SAP PAPM in banking is required.
- Solid understanding of profitability, performance measurement, and cost allocation concepts, including how data flows from source systems through calculation engines into reporting and analytics.
- Good grasp of delivery governance fundamentals, including planning, dependency management, RAID management, and structured status reporting.
- Experience operating in complex, global delivery environments with multiple stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear, structured, and finance‑relevant insights to support informed decision‑making.
- Delivery‑focused mindset with strong attention to control, calculation integrity, data quality, and execution discipline.
- AD‑level capability expectations: sound finance and data fundamentals, strong ownership of outcomes, effective stakeholder management, and readiness to grow broader ownership across performance management and analytics domains."