Finance Associate Record-to-Report

at  SAP

WE HELP THE WORLD RUN BETTER

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now!

EDUCATION / WORK EXPERIENCE

• Student of Accounting or Business
• Experience on a financial field would be an advantage

Why is SAP a great place to work?

• Development: We believe every employee is a talent and we want to reach your full potential.
• Diversity: We have a diverse and inclusive culture that is critical to making SAP both a great place to work and a successful company.
• Balance and Rewards: SAP empowers you to have a work/life balance that enables you to perform at your best.
• Innovation: We anticipate and explore emerging technology trends and value your creativity. Be part of System Innovations & Testing’s in order to make our products better for our customers.
• Sustainability and CSR: Our vision is to help the world run better and improve people’s lives

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent English communication and interpersonal skills
• Additional language competency would be an added advantage
• Knowledge in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and SAP system knowledge preferred
• Aptitude for repetitive transactional system tasks and ability to work in a dynamic / virtual environment
• Ability to work independently and as a team in a multi-cultural environment
• Self-motivated and able to work under time pressure with accuracy and commitmen

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

As the leading technology company for digital businesses, SAP serves nearly 300,000 customers in 190 countries. 80 million users make SAP the largest enterprise cloud company in the world, along with business networks that transact nearly $1 trillion annually. The Global Finance Shared Services organization (GFSS) is a business unit with 1,200+ employees delivering end-to-end finance operations from a set of vibrant and multicultural locations around the globe: Buenos Aires, Dublin, Manila, Prague and Singapore.
Our highly engaged teams specialize in Order to Invoice, Cash Collections, Procure to Pay, Travel & Expense and Record to Report. Additionally, at GFSS, you will find: a highly skilled workforce collaborating across the globe on common topics, engaged colleagues creating value by simplifying and optimizing operations and one motivated global team working together towards shared goals.
Also, at GFSS, you will find: exciting career opportunities, a diverse work environment providing opportunities to grow, development & learning opportunities and an international business network for you learn and grow from.
Within GFSS, SAP employees have an opportunity to handle end-to-end high-quality finance services to SAP customers throughout the Globe.
Expectations and Tasks
As Finance Operations Associate in GFSS R2R, you will be able to build your accounting profession as you support the daily operations of the process and apply your accounting knowledge in practice constantly. At the same time this role offers many development opportunities on other skills and competencies that will help you shape your future career path.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Act as the primary and backup support role for 1 or more countries, mainly in the area of Revenue Accounting, Expense Accounting, Intercompany Accounting, HR & Compensation Accounting, Cash & Bank Accounting and Cost Accounting. You are taking care of the following tasks in particular:

• Perform general accounting tasks related to monthly, quarterly and year-end closing (period end procedures) such as Deferred Charges preparation and posting, Revenue Recognition, SOX controls etc.
• Provide reconciliation of reports and accounts, which includes Intercompany Reconciliation, Bank Reconciliation, and Balance Sheet account reviews etc.
• Perform Cost Accounting tasks, such as cost allocations and charging.
• Support countries for SOX audit, statistical reporting, Tax audit and external/internal audit reviews when required.
• Participate and support in projects, such as continuous improvements & standardization activities, process migrations or System Testing’s with Developers.
• Adhere to service level standards and work towards development of a service culture of ‘Excellence’.

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent English communication and interpersonal skills
• Additional language competency would be an added advantage
• Knowledge in MS Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint) and SAP system knowledge preferred
• Aptitude for repetitive transactional system tasks and ability to work in a dynamic / virtual environment
• Ability to work independently and as a team in a multi-cultural environment
• Self-motivated and able to work under time pressure with accuracy and commitment