Commercial Finance Specialist jobs at Sap in Germany

What you'll do

Join our dynamic team as a working student and embark on an exciting journey of professional growth. Here's what you can expect:

• Collaborate with a diverse team of talented individuals, including both seasoned experts and emerging talents, fostering a vibrant learning environment.
• Engage in exciting development projects, such as working on proof of concepts, prototypes, and enhancements of our Sales Order APIs, utilizing your skills in ABAP and gaining
• Experience in RAP (RESTful Application Programming Model).
• Contribute to the quality of our products, ensuring that they meet the highest standards.
• Explore the potential of generative AI to enhance our products, conduct research and implement innovative solutions.
• Foster close collaboration with the scrum team, ensuring outstanding results and a seamless workflow.
• Gain valuable insights into our business processes and understand how our customers operate.
• Analyze data and create visually appealing reports to support decision-making processes and enhance product quality.

What you bring

• Student (f/m/d) at a university or a university of applied sciences
• Preferred fields of study: computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, business information technology
• Computer skills / Programming languages: Good knowledge of at least one programming language
• Language skills: fluent in both English and German
• Soft skills: Independent working style and a high level of motivation, ability to work in a team and good communication skills and a strong willingness to learn.
• Working from Walldorf office is required at least once per week and preferred for team building

Your set of application documents should contain a cover letter, a resume in table form, school leaving certificates, certificate of enrollment, current university transcript of records, copies of any academic degrees already earned, and if available, references from former employers (including internships). Please also describe your experience and skills in foreign languages and computer programs / programming languages.

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What you'll do :

As Operations specialist you are responsible for:

• Ensuring Day to Day quality service delivery
• Defining and tracking various service KPI and SLA’s
• Deescalating the running escalations
• Working towards automating various day to day operational tasks
• Planning, setup, implementation, and operation of SAP technologies achieving ambitious SLA
• Handling the OnCall duty
• Process improvement on the daily operational activities
• Driving the projects and programs
• Able to coordinate and orchestrate the work between the teams
• Strong collaboration with other units within and outside ECS units

What you bring :

• 9+ year work experience in Basis administration
• 2+ year experience in HANA database technical support

• 5+ years’ experience in service delivery in global teams
• Experience in handling the Managed Service Delivery model.
• Managing the operations and 24/7 delivery unit
• Understanding and working experience in SLA/KPI tracking
• Familiar with ITIL concepts of Service Management, Change Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Understanding of hyperscalers concepts
• Working experience in a global team with 24/7 support
• De-escalation experience on IT incidents and requests
• Management of multiple activities requiring cross team coordination

Nice to have

• ITIL Certification
• Project management experience
• Executive reporting experience
• Able to communicate successfully at different levels of the organization

ABOUT THE TEAM

• Current team size of 50 people
• Global team spread across India, Germany and Mexico
• Diverse and different level of expertise in the team
• Combination of Technical and Operational delivery expert

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Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Contribute to the implementation of global benefits programs and harmonization efforts such as pension governance, time-off, transportation benefits, Perks, and recognition frameworks
• Support vendor assessments, selection, and ongoing management for EMEA region
• Monitor performance metrics to ensure optimal delivery standards and cost efficiency
• Partner with legal, finance, and other teams to ensure compliance with local laws and SAP’s global policies
• Act as a trusted advisor to Total Rewards Relations Managers offering guidance on benefits-related decisions by providing data-driven insights on benefits costs, compliance considerations, and evolving employee benefits designs

YOUR PROFILE

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Benefits across multiple European countries, with solid hands-on involvement in supporting the design and management of benefits programs
• Experience in managing external vendors and brokers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring high-quality service delivery
• Project management skills and the ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities in
  cross-functional teams
• Solid knowledge of benefits practices, policies, and legal requirements
• Strong communication and persuasive stakeholder engagement skills in a matrixed, international setting
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Yearly bonuses, sick days paid and sick leaves fully refunded, flexible start/end of working hours, contributions to the pension/life insurance, meal vouchers, holidays 5 weeks, educational courses, coaching and mentoring opportunities, free massage, cafeteria plan, free fitness studio, generous shares program, etc

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Our EMEA Core Team provides support to the sales teams in the wider Deal Execution process for services deals throughout Europe with the following three main areas/tasks:

1. Deal Support Manager

• Triaging requests to validate and prioritize support requirements
• Provide effective and efficient Deal Support, liaising with requestors to gather the minimum information required to process a deal
• Setting up a deal and quote in the SAP Harmony deal system
• Initiating approval requests for quotes in the Harmony System
• Liaise with stakeholders like Service Delivery, Commercial, Revenue Recognition, Legal, and Business Approvers to facilitate approvals where needed
• Submitting the order form to the customer or opportunity owner for signature using DocuSign after approvals

1. Contract Specialist

• Become an expert in the standard Services contracting process for all Premium Engagement and Professional Services offers and be able to advise internal customers as required.
• Completing contracts using state-of-the-art automation for most cases
• Create – with the support of other specialists - larger customer specific potentially non – standard contracts
• Understand Services contracts and be able to advise Sales on any potential issues in the review and approval process, ensuring usage of correct templates, adherence of Business and Compliance rules etc.
• Support change activities to enable a best run Deal Execution and Contracting process in EMEA

1. Projects

• Drive projects to continuously proceed with automation and standardisation in order to speed up the process of contract creation and delivering best value to our customers
• Work with local, regional and global peers to create a great customer experience for our internal and external stakeholders
• Work with peers to establish efficient cross-country support measure
  

SKILLS REQUIRED

• Strong self-organisation skills - this includes the ability to manage several deals in parallel -across different processing stages- within a given (often challenging) timeline, and all deals to be managed in unison
• profound knowledge of general corporate business practices, commercial contracting regulations and principles
• Strong mindset and willingness to follow internal processes and procedures to ensure all required approvals have been obtained and recorded as per the relevant regulations
• reliability and assertiveness
• an ability to quickly identify risks and issues, providing solutions by suggesting suitable alternatives to solve issues at hand, escalating matters within the business where necessary
• good level of stress resistance, ability to work well, prioritize and remain calm and professional especially under pressure, whilst managing multiple contracts in parallel and meeting tight timelines especially at month and quarter ends
• ability to own and manage a problem, by ensuring it is resolved or concluded as quickly as possible.
• ability to clearly explain outstanding deal or contractual issues to the stakeholders and confidence to participate in unscheduled ad hoc meetings
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written, is a must. Other languages like e.g. French, Turkish, Spanish, Italian and German are beneficial but not mandatory.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Proven track record of successfully working on similar set ups as detailed in the above Job Description
• Experience of working either directly within Sales, Sales Support or Deal Support Operation Functions is preferre
  

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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Job Segment:ERP, Compliance, Sales Operations, Cloud, Sales Support, Technology, Legal, Sales

THE ROLE:

You will be responsible to drive continuous improvement to increase operation, availability and efficiency. Infrastructure landscape re-architecture and new technology adoption is another important part. Global thinking and a strong customer focus are essential within the new Enterprise Cloud Services program.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong conceptual understanding & knowledge on the RDBMS products in the market
• Around 12+ years of work experience as Database Administrator in Global Operations team (primarily on SAP HANA and ASE Database Platforms, however any database technology is welcome)
• Exposure to the automation tools /scripting or processes
• DB installations and upgrade, Planning, setup and implementation.
• Providing technical expertise and support in optimizing and tuning of Systems. Performance Optimization.
• DB Concept on Security, Backup and recovery strategies, performance tuning, System Copies, high availability, and disaster recovery strategy, export-import, replication is must.
• Organize / Structure day2day documentation as needed.
• Willingness to take on-call duty/Weekend tasks during working hours. The on-call / on-shift duty is based on rotation.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and managing the database landscape in a large-scale Productive environments.
• Must have good knowledge of Policy, workflow, group, and clients for Configuring the backup.
• Ensuring Data Integrity aspects and determining the most suitable recovery technique.
• Ability to handle effectively and accurately the data recovery scenarios.
• Clear understanding of Point-In-Time (PIT) and full recovery techniques.
• Handle incidents around critical systems and ability to failover & failback as needed.

Cloud knowledge (e.g. experience of working in Public Cloud Domains like Microsoft Azure, AWS and GCP) is desirable but not essential. Good to have Professional Certification of Database Platforms with exposure to Project Management tasks including PMP and ITIL certification.

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06/30/2025

Hybrid work model

Education and Occupational Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology/Services, or a related field of study and six (6) years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or related occupation. Alternatively, a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology/Services, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the job offered or related occupation.

Experience must involve four (4) years in the following:

• Administering SAP S/4HANA and SAP NetWeaver;

• Designing and implementing SAP Applications and Databases, focusing on high availability and disaster recovery concepts;

• Finding and fixing problems with load balancers;

• Analyzing S/4HANA data footprint, including server downsizing and upsizing;

• Integration between SAP SuccessFactors & Azure Active Directory;

• SAP Cloud Platform Identity Authentication; and

• SAP Cloud Platform Identity Provisioning Service.

Position does require up to 20% domestic travel to unanticipated customer sites nationwide to review customer technical landscape, new technical requirements, and any technical challenges.

This position is eligible for the Employee Referral Program subject to the eligibility criteria outlined in the .

Internal use only: reference code lhrs4262

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Philadelphia

What you'll do:

As the Solution Advisor (Senior) Specialist (f/m/d) with focus on Business Development, you will be the go-to person for any solution or go-to-market questions within the sales team and be crucial part of the Customer Advisory team. You will leverage your deep expertise in Financial Services Industry and SAP solutions to generate demand and support the entire sales cycle, from identifying opportunities to post-sale customer support. Additionally, you will assist customers in expanding their current SAP footprint to maximize value for their organization.

• Identify market opportunities and growth levers and develop tangible GTM action plans. Collaborate with your team of peers as well as with the virtual community of Sales, Customer Advisory, Marketing and Services to prioritize and scale for execution.
• Contribute to demand generation and pipeline build and manage the R4Q demand.
• Act as an influential speaker at industry-specific events and client meetings
• Provide deep solution- as well as FSI-specific expertise to support new sales and adoption for key customers.
• Support the Account Team by delivering solution presentations and events to identify and qualify new opportunities and drive adoption and consumption of SAP solutions.
• Evaluate account qualification criteria to determine further investment in pursuing opportunities.
• Establish yourself as a thought leader within the account team and fine-tune account strategy.
• Collaborate with the team in creating overall themes and competitive differentiation.
• Transition engagement to implementation Partner as well as Services teams effectively.
• Engage with customers to continue selling the vision of SAP solutions and ensure eagerness for renewal.
• Leverage digital assets throughout the customer engagement, including demos, presentations, and other content.

What you bring:

• Excellent communication, relationship building & presentation skills.
• Strong team player, driving results in a dynamic organization
• Disciplined, data-driven decision-making, strong analytical skills together with a high level of innovative thinking, change agility and integrity
• Professional experience with large software/IT organizations
• SAP product as well as Financial Services Industry expertise
• Proficient understanding of SAP, its products and solutions, partners, markets and competition
• Working knowledge of Cloud, Hosted Services, and Software as a Service/Platform as a Service models in the Business-to-Business Environment
• Focus on creating compelling storylines and themes for customer interactions.
• Ability to quickly understand customer business goals and ensure they are at the center of recommended solutions
• Passion and energy in all customer interactions
• Full working proficiency in German and Business English

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