Finance Specialist

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Do you want to join a highly motivated and trusted international team covering the major locations in Europe and MEE, well known as a Business Partner Community providing leadership, service, and insight in all commercial related activities?

We are looking for you to join our team as a Commercial Business Partner (f/m/d) for the Global Commercial Finance (GCF) Service Organization. Our Services Commercial team provides support for the Services Sales Team tasked with selling Services solution portfolio into our large enterprise and subsidiary customer base.

You will support the Services Sales Team from the early stages of deal structuring and review, through to the final contract stage. All this in close collaboration with the different Commercial Business Subject Matter Experts and Services & Sales Management. You will hold a key position in strategic deal shaping and approval by focusing on actively building and maintaining trustful and cooperative business-oriented partnerships with Sales, Customer Service Delivery (CS&D) and GFA Organizations.

SUMMARY AND ROLE INFORMATION

The major areas of responsibility are:

• As a member of our Commercial Business Partner team, you will serve as a trusted advisor providing value added advisory services to the field to drive deal structuring and provide direction and support to the Services Sales Team and CS&D Team in the early stages of the sales cycle to help them maximize value and minimize risks.
• Support deals across multi-functional internal teams, (Commercial Business-Partners, Revenue Recognition, Finance, Legal) on complex deal scenarios.

• Collaborate with Sales, during customer negotiations, on commercial customer feedback on the contract/negotiation strategy and content and find compliant solutions to ensure customer success.
• Ensure Compliance with corporate guidelines and management policies.
• Act as a trusted advisor for decision makers including close collaboration with the country CFO
• Engage in the enhancement of established processes and actively contribute to simplification initiatives and enhance the support by taking full advantage of the AI

EXPERIENCE / EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• BS Degree: MBA and/or financial or legal degree preferred
• At least 2 years of experience in the SAP eco-system either with a finance background, service, sales, product knowledge or with project management experience
• Collaborative style to work with different parts of the SAP organization during the negotiation process
• Good Listening skills and attention to detail
• A team-player with a collaborative style to work with multiple groups
• Work effectively with stakeholders in a matrix model
• International working experience required
• Advanced written and spoken English skills, German or French would be beneficial

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
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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.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 404279  | Work Area: Finance  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.