Sr. Finance Manager, Digital Technologies

Mars • Chicago, IL

1d • $134,400 - $184,800 • Onsite

About The Position

The Sr. Finance Manager, Digital Technologies will serve as the strategic financial architect for Mars Snacking's combined $1B+ Digital Technology portfolio, driving the harmonization of legacy Mars and Kellanova FP&A frameworks into a unified, high-performing global operating model. This newly established role is designed to deliver comprehensive cost-transparency, unlock commercial synergies, and maximize digital return on investment (ROI). A central objective will be establishing standardized financial processes and creating a 'one-version-of-the-truth' governance framework to support seamless financial planning, analysis, and reporting across our expanded global footprint.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), or commercial business partnering within a global matrixed organization.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or a related field.
• Proven track record of leading financial integration, post-merger harmonization, or large-scale digital transformations within a global consumer goods (FMCG) environment, with specific expertise in managing IT/DT portfolios and designing standardized FP&A processes across diverse business units.
• Digital Fluency: Strong familiarity with technology-specific financial concepts, such as software-as-a-service (SaaS) accounting, software capitalization policies, cloud infrastructure economics, and tracking ROIs on multi-million dollar technology investments.
• Systems & Data Literacy: Advanced expertise in reporting from / using ERP and planning suites (e.g., SAP, Anaplan) and data visualization platforms (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau).
• Experience in managing large scale digital productivity / transformation programs in complex, global organizations
• Strategic thinker, not afraid to challenge status quo
• Navigating Ambiguity: High emotional intelligence and resilience, with the capacity to establish trust, manage multiple stakeholders across time zones, and maintain clarity in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Nice To Haves

• Background in business partnering with focus on managing digital technology portfolios is preferred.
• Background from consulting / experience with running transformations or large-scale integrations is a big plus
• MBA or other advanced degree in business or finance preferred
• Experience in financial master data cleanup is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and govern a unified FP&A and cost-allocation framework for the integrated $1B+ DT portfolio, establish standardized financial processes and KPI dashboards that eliminate redundancies, harmonize ways of working across legacy teams, and actively track the delivery of post-merger synergy targets.
• Help coordinate the end-to-end execution of the Annual Enterprise Plan (AEP) and the 5-year Integrated Value Creation Plan (IVCP) across the global DT portfolio.
• Consolidate global performance actuals and own variance analysis, translating complex technology cost fluctuations into clear, commercial financial narratives for senior leadership.
• Support financial integration efforts to systematically measure performance baselines.
• Help standardize, scale, and run robust financial governance frameworks and compliance training in partnership with Controllership, Regional S&F, and Mars Global Services (MGS) to enhance our value delivery framework.
• Serve as the segment-wide lead for identifying technology cost savings, tracking synergy realization, and providing financial advisory for macro-initiatives.
• Support the financial components of digital transformation submissions
• Help manage a collection of DT portfolios, projects, programs, and products to ensure they collectively deliver maximum business value
• Improve and manage our framework for digital performance monitoring and reporting and use this to drive resource prioritization and allocation across projects
• Continuously identify and implement opportunities for optimization across DT Spend Management
• Liaise with Mars Global Services to actively manage the forecasts, cross charges and actuals to ensure accurate financial reporting and tracking

Benefits

• company bonus
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• variable pay
• medical and dental benefits
• participation in 401k plan
• paid time off benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager