EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS:
- Participates in the general administration of the finance and accounting function.
- For accounting, this role includes all basic activities that are performed to meet accounting and financial reporting requirements that result from legal obligations or SAP internal global policies.
- For finance, this may include administering activities such as accounting commissions, order management treasury management, or billing that may not be in scope of a global Finance Shared Service organization.
- These roles may complete transactions within a specialized area and may interact with the broader F&A Community to achieve desired results/services.

Revenue Recognition:
- Provide revenue recognition deal support or business model innovation support for specific region, territory, or on a global level.
- Involved in fair value compliance testing activities, providing revenue recognition guidance for end customer contracts or business models ensuring compliance with the SAP Revenue Recognition Policy- Participate in the monthly close process.
- Accounting: Participates in the monthly close process including posting journal entries, reviewing and reconciling balance sheet and profit and loss accounts, and providing detailed analysis.
- Creates, posts, and reconciles intercompany transactions while ensuring compliance with the SAP Accounting Guidelines.
- Assists with the annual financial audits, tax audits as well as the preparation of the year-end financial reporting packages.

Order Management:
- Responsible for administration of customer contract which includes creation of customer information in SAP's systems, such as customer master data, creation of installations, customer contact information related to the booking of a contract, invoicing customers, software delivery, and revenue recognition of deals booked.

Treasury:
- Supports daily, treasury activities like financial risk management, financial asset management, FX and cash management.
- Provides reporting, forecasting and related support to internal customers.

Billing:
- Ensures timely and accurate customer billing.
- Analyzes pending billing, identifies potential quality issues and resolves directly with upstream personnel.

Licensing:
- Understands, supports and performs all processes and tasks around third party licensing in a reliable and quality driven manner.
- Provides advisory services around third party licensing and the corresponding processes to internal Customers.

Credit Management:
- Maintains and analyzes credit decision systems and data for the financial evaluation of SAP customers and prospects.
- Ensures accurate and timely credit checks to improve collectability and profitability and engages as necessary with internal and external customers while following clear and consistent guidelines and global best practices for the conduct of Credit Management at SAP.
- Endeavors to obtain a transparent view of the customer's financial situation, allocates appropriate credit limits in alignment with defined policies to reduce credit risks, and implements an early warning to internal stakeholders on prospects not considered to be creditworthy.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS:
- Bachelor degree in Accounting/Finance or related business background.
- 0-3+ years of accounting or finance experience or in required field (commissions, AR, billing, banking, cash management etc).
- Good understanding of IFRS accounting issues and Sarbanes-Oxley requirement and local accounting skills.
- Experience with SAP ERP preferred.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Conversational in English.

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