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Responsible for managing and administering the finance and accounting function including commercial.
For accounting, this includes functions that are performed to meet accounting and financial reporting requirements that result from legal obligations or SAP internal policies/processes/guidelines.
For finance function, this includes providing the F&A Community with guidelines, standardized processes and services, taking over the responsibility for centralized tasks and activities.
For Finance, this may include functions related to key finance areas. This may include overseeing and managing revenue recognition, commissions, order management, contracts, accounts receivable, treasury management, or additional functions.
For commercial business partnering this includes activities like deal approval coordination, advising on deal structure, providing detailed pricing information, identifying risk and revenue recognition issues and finding practical commercial solutions to meet the needs of the business while not compromising on compliance, all administrative activities of contract - and offer preparation, assessment, clearing and settlement, including consulting and process activities in the framework of commercial business support.
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Functional path specific definition (for the Project path specific definitions please view above):
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Key Responsibilities and Task
Participates in the strategic design and execution of the finance and accounting function.
For accounting, this may include leading 1 or more functions that are performed to meet accounting and financial reporting requirements that result from legal obligations or SAP internal policies/processes/guidelines. For finance, this may include leading 1 or more functions related to key finance areas.
This may include overseeing and managing revenue recognition, commissions, order management, contracts, treasury management, billing, or additional functions not be in scope of a global Finance Shared Service model. These expert roles have a broad range of responsibility or may be a functional expert within 1 specialized area.
The incumbent will need to interact with many local, regional, or global counterparts (internal and external) to achieve desired results/services.
In addition, the expert will foster continued process improvement for more efficient business results. Individual may operate at the local, regional or global level and may have varied levels of customer interaction. Regardless of function, individual will maintain close relationships with internal and external customers and may often present analysis/recommendations to senior management.
The incumbent may lead 1 or more project, and is focused on process improvement/change management. Revenue Recognition: May oversee revenue recognition for specific region, territory, or global level.
May be leading complex and strategic revenue recognition projects such as introduction of new standards, M&A revenue recognition integration, etc. or provide guidance on highly non-routine accounting matters. Fully integrated with the field to provide deal support to proactively address issues. Accounting: May oversee the execution of the monthly close process and provide detailed analysis. May ensure compliance with the SAP Accounting Guidelines. May oversee the annual financial audits as well as the preparation of the year-end financial reporting packages.
May oversee the full integration of financial data from acquired companies. Provides guidance and direction on complex accounting issues or projects such as accounting integration / acquisition activity. Ensures compliance with the SAP Accounting Guideline. May initiate or support process improvements within R2R.
Order Management: May oversee the administration of customer contracts, including booking and invoicing. May be actively engaged in critical escalations and revenue recognition of deals booked. Treasury: May oversee treasury activities like financial risk-, financial asset, foreign exchange, and cash management as well as financing.
May provide complex analysis and provide recommendations to senior leadership. Billing: May oversee the administration of the billing or related functions.
May identify, resolve billing issues, and maintain broad view of billing related activities. May be involved to manage audit activity, present findings to sr. leadership. Strong focus on process efficiency and IT improvements to improve upstream billing processes Licensing: May oversee and manage all aspects and tasks around third-party licensing.
Focuses on process improvement and quality around the third party processes and ensures that the third-party licensing process remains 'best of breed'. Supports and provides advice to specialists and senior specialists. Responsible to demonstrate leadership and to analyze and solve complex problems.
Supports business development efforts in analyzing and establishing new business models. Negotiates complex agreements with third party providers incl. key and mission critical partnerships and oversees and coordinates license negotiations including drafting complex extensions and further develop the agreements template according to legal frameworks, to SAP's licensing standards and audit relevant regulations (SOX 404, ISO9001).
Prepares and presents executive summaries, risk evaluations and mitigation plan in cooperation with other process stakeholders and to discuss these with upstream personnel (up to board level) incl. decision support. Review and support existing and new business models and act as an advisor in business and licensing related topics.
Review agreements and perform licensing validations for multiple business and distribution channels incl. decisions on license validation. Contracts: Establishes local/ global contract management policy & processes to ensure consistent, harmonized contracts management, including the drafting, negotiating, and redlining options/ tools, reporting and administration standards and procedures.
Ensures coordination among teams and supports and manages key projects as assigned. Negotiates complex and high-risk contract terms and conditions with internal lines of business and an external customer's legal/procurement personnel. Acts as the focal point to resolve issues and manages training for colleagues. Credit Management: Is actively engaged in the proactive monitoring of customer credit quality across all business lines and regional portfolio.
Capable of interaction w/ all levels of management in Sales and F&A regarding Credit Process & Procedures and demonstrates a high degree of financial and business acumen in credit decisions and business interactions. May be responsible for reporting across LOBs and to various business stakeholders re. Credit Quality of SAP Customer base. May initiate, lead, or support process improvements within Credit Management business process, and take initiative on special projects impacting the organization. May act as a single point of contact, escalation point and/or team lead within a particular region and be responsible for driving team initiatives and ensuring compliance with global credit guidelines and best practices for the conduct of Credit Management at SAP.
Experiance and Educational Experiance
8 years professional experience, 3 years on Senior Level 8+ years of accounting or finance experience or in required field (revenue accounting, pricing, commissions, billing, etc.)
Excellent understanding of IFRS accounting issues and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and local accounting skills.
Experience with SAP ERP preferred Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word Fluent in English Education: Bachelor or master’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting/Finance/IT Law/ Computer Science, or related business background (MBA preferred) Preferred: Pursuing MBA, Master’s, or Legal degree
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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
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Requisition ID: 405604 | Work Area: Finance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.
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