Conseiller financier principal – Gouvernance PaPM /Senior Financial Analyst, PaPM Governance

McKesson•Montreal, QC

About The Position

The Senior Financial Analyst – PaPM Governance is responsible for overseeing, maintaining, and continuously improving the SAP Profitability and Performance Management (PaPM) model to ensure accurate, consistent, and decision‑ready financial insights across the organization. This role acts as the Finance Owner and Steward of the PaPM model, ensuring strong governance, clear methodologies, and alignment between Finance, Operations, and Technology. The role plays a critical part in enabling cost‑to‑serve, margin, and profitability analysis by ensuring models, drivers, and allocation logic reflect how the business operates. This position partners closely with FP&A, Accounting, Operations, and IT to maintain model integrity, manage enhancements, and support enterprise‑level decision making.

Requirements

Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in Finance or Accounting.
5-7+ years of experience in FP&A, cost accounting, or financial modeling.
Familiarity with SAP PAPM or similar allocation tools.
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
Understanding of cost allocation principles and activity-based costing.
Experience with PaPM, SAP PaPM, or enterprise profitability models.
Knowledge of distribution, supply chain, or logistics cost structures.
Ability to translate complex financial concepts into actionable insights.
Highly analytical approach, constantly seeking to understand the driver for results.
Self-managed, motivated, entrepreneurial style; brings matter to resolution.
Strong analytical, technical skills and ability to link information together, capable of translating findings into business actions.
Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
Ability to effectively build solid relationships with the finance team.
Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.
Proficient in spoken and written English (required for daily support to internal and/or external clients outside Quebec and/or in the United States).

Nice To Haves

CPA designation.
MBA with a Finance background.
Bilingual (English/French).
Familiarity with analytics or BI tools.

Responsibilities

Serve as the Finance owner of the PaPM profitability model, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and transparency.
Define, document, and maintain profitability methodologies, allocation logic, and key assumptions.
Establish and enforce model governance standards, including change control, versioning, and approval processes.
Ensure alignment between PaPM outputs and financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
Oversee ongoing maintenance of the PaPM model, including cost drivers, hierarchies, dimensions, and allocation rules.
Partner with IT and external consultants to manage model enhancements, fixes, and releases.
Evaluate business requests for model changes and assess financial, operational, and governance impacts.
Ensure enhancements are properly tested, validated, and documented before deployment.
Lead the design, development, and ongoing maintenance of profitability and cost‑to‑serve dashboards derived from the PaPM model.
Develop dashboards tailored to the distinct needs of multiple stakeholder groups.
Ensure dashboards are intuitive, consistent, and aligned with PaPM governance standards, serving as a trusted source of truth for profitability insights.
Translate complex model outputs into clear, actionable visual narratives that support strategic and operational decision‑making.
Continuously evolve dashboards based on business feedback, new use cases, and changes to the PaPM model or strategy.
Enable advanced profitability analysis across customers, products, vendors, routes and service models.
Support development and interpretation of KPIs such as cost per line, cost per unit, cost per route, cost per stop, and margin analytics.
Translate complex model outputs into clear, actionable insights for Finance and business leaders.
Support strategic initiatives related to pricing, network optimization, service design, and investment decisions.
Establish and monitor data quality checks, reconciliations, and validation controls.
Ensure PaPM outputs reconcile to source systems and financial actuals within agreed tolerances.
Maintain comprehensive documentation, training materials, and user guidance.
Support audit and review requests related to profitability methodologies and model outputs.