- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- IT & Technology Systems
- Posted
- Nov 9, 2026
About Chalhoub Group
Founded in 1955 by Michel and Widad Chalhoub, Chalhoub Group has grown into a leading partner for luxury across the Middle East. Headquartered in Dubai, the family-owned group brings together international maisons and homegrown concepts across fashion, beauty and lifestyle, combining regional expertise with retail and distribution capabilities. As an employer, it offers career opportunities spanning client experience, brand management, merchandising, logistics and digital innovation. Its multicultural environment connects employees with the evolving expectations of luxury consumers, while its emphasis on learning, entrepreneurship and sustainability provides a distinctive setting for professionals seeking to shape the region’s luxury landscape.
Chalhoub Group’s Capability Hub is seeking an SAP PAPM Specialist in Bengaluru to maintain SAP Finance operational continuity, lead the Oracle-to-SAP support transition, and design and optimize profitability and financial reporting solutions. The role requires at least 5 years of hands-on SAP PAPM or PCM implementation and support experience and a relevant bachelor’s degree; benefits include health care, child education contribution, flexible and remote working policies, and employee discounts.
Role & Responsibilities
- Maintain stability and operational continuity in the SAP Finance environment, with tight SLAs, clear ownership, and minimal business disruption.
- Lead the transition of Finance support services and country management from Oracle to SAP, ensuring business continuity, knowledge transfer, and platform stability during and after go-live.
- Establish scalable BAU processes for post-implementation SAP support, covering incident, change, enhancement, and user-support workflows.
- Coordinate with the SAP programme team on the handover to IT operations and the development of support and optimization models.
- Design, configure, and implement SAP PAPM solutions for profitability analysis across shared services and country management support functions.
- Establish a post-go-live SAP governance framework for continuous improvement, controlled backlog management, and visibility into change-investment decisions.
- Foster cross-functional collaboration and shared ownership across IT and Finance teams.
- Enhance SAP PAPM to support accurate, timely financial performance reporting and informed decision-making.
- Serve as the strategic liaison between Technology and Finance, aligning transformation initiatives, investment plans, and support capabilities.
- Deliver real-time financial reporting for key stakeholders.
- Simplify and standardize data models, promote a single source of truth, and use bots, AI-driven automation, and auto-reconciliation to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Ensure integration between SAP PAPM and SAP S/4HANA Finance, Controlling (CO), Sales & Distribution (SD), and RPA solutions.
- Design PaPM models, allocation logic, driver-based costing, and performance analytics scenarios.
- Configure SAP PaPM environments, including data sources, rules, allocations, and integrations.
- Develop PaPM solutions for cost allocations, transfer pricing, Pillar 2, and other use cases.
- Work with SAP HANA data modeling using HANA Studio/WebIDE, including Core Data Services (CDS) views and AMDP (ABAP Managed Database Procedures).
- Work with Remote Function Calls (RFC), Smart Data Access (SDA), Smart Data Integration (SDI), and OData services.
- Ingest data into DataSphere and export or use it in PaPM.
- Use SQL scripting for data manipulation and troubleshooting within HANA.
- Work with cloud storage technologies such as Azure BLOB storage, Amazon S3 buckets, or Google BigQuery (GBQ).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience implementing and supporting SAP PAPM or SAP Profitability and Cost Management (PCM).
- Strong understanding of profitability analysis concepts, cost-allocation methodologies, and performance-management frameworks.
- Proven experience with SAP S/4HANA Finance and Controlling modules.
- Expertise in data modeling, allocation-rules configuration, and profitability-calculation logic within SAP PAPM.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into technical PAPM solutions.
- Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to interpret financial data and provide strategic recommendations.
- Strong communication skills in English.
Skills
Experience
At least 5 years of hands-on experience implementing and supporting SAP PAPM or SAP Profitability and Cost Management (PCM).
Education
Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
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Benefits
Health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, exclusive employee discounts, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments through internal mobility.
Culture
Chalhoub Group combines its heritage as a family-owned business with the dynamism of the Middle East’s luxury sector, fostering a multicultural workplace rooted in collaboration and long-term relationships. Its culture emphasizes continuous learning, entrepreneurial initiative and excellence in customer experience, encouraging employees to develop their expertise while contributing to the evolution of luxury retail.
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