Sr. Finance Manager, Global Transformation (Project Role)

The Sr.

Finance Manager, Transformation serves as the FP&A and governance lead for the global Mars Pet Nutrition Transformation portfolio, ensuring disciplined financial management, compliant investment execution, and transparent performance reporting across transformation initiatives.

This role is responsible for driving financial planning, forecasting, portfolio analytics, and governance processes that enable the delivery of transformation cost and value commitments.

Acting as a key partner to Transformation and S&F leadership, the role provides data-driven insights, proactively identifies portfolio risks and opportunities, and guides the broader transformation finance community on compliance, qualifying costs, forecasting standards, and reporting requirements.

A central focus of the role is enhancing financial transparency through standardized processes, digitized reporting, and robust portfolio performance management to ensure transformation investments deliver against approved business cases.

This is project role slated to end on December 31, 2028.

What Are We Looking For?

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field; MBA, CPA, or equivalent qualification preferred.

• 7+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, transformation finance, or portfolio financial management within a complex global organization.

• Strong experience leading financial planning, forecasting, governance, and reporting processes for large-scale transformation or investment portfolios.

• Demonstrated capability in developing analytics, dashboards, and data-driven insights that support executive decision-making.

• Deep understanding of financial controls, compliance, investment governance, and business case management.

• Advanced proficiency with planning and reporting tools (e.g., SAP, Anaplan, Power BI, Tableau) and data-driven performance management.

• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and operating effectively across matrixed global organizations.

• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial information into concise, actionable recommendations.

What Will Be Your Key Responsibilities?

• Lead financial governance and compliance for the Pet Nutrition Transformation portfolio, ensuring all projects adhere to Mars Transformation policies and overseeing submission of required reporting to TIGG.

• Own end-to-end financial planning and forecasting processes for transformation investments and benefits, including transformation reporting requirements (TIGG), AEP, IVCP, and Global Petcare reporting cycles.

• Deliver portfolio-level analytics and actionable insights that proactively identify risks, opportunities, and performance gaps versus business cases, enabling timely leadership decisions and corrective actions.

• Partner with Transformation and S&F leadership to provide clear financial narratives, escalation of key risks, and recommendations to support delivery of transformation cost and value commitments.

• Serve as the subject matter expert for transformation finance processes, training and onboarding finance and project teams on qualifying costs, compliance requirements, governance standards, and financial policies.

• Establish and maintain standardized reporting, KPI, cost and benefit tracking and portfolio management processes that create transparency and enable consistent performance measurement across transformation initiatives.

• Drive continuous improvement of transformation financial management practices, leveraging data, automation, and digital tools to improve forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and decision quality.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.

• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is between the below range, however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including but not limited to, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, if eligible, including variable pay & general allowances (depending on the position and employee’s work schedule). Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans then in effect, and depending on the position offered and the employee’s work schedule (i.e., part-time schedule), eligible employees are automatically enrolled in a 401(k) plan, as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents, and may be eligible to take up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Employees will also receive the following paid-time off (which may be prorated based on start date and the employee’s work schedule): 120 hours of vacation per year, paid sick time for eligible Associates of 100% pay continuation for a maximum of 40 hours per calendar year, and 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year that include both fixed and flexible holidays.