Revenue Accounting Specialist - Americas

at  SAP

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.
Do you demand the best from your professional career? Are you inspired by excellence? Do you want to contribute with your already gained knowledge in SAP to a world that runs better? At SAP, you will have the power to make a real impact. As the global market leader for business software, SAP helps companies and organizations in more than 25 industries to run better.

QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCIES

• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
• Experience / knowledge of IFRS accounting, particularly IFRS15; or similar accounting rules & principles is a distinct advantage.
• Knowledge about the Revenue Accounting & Reporting Tool (RAR) is similarly an advantage.
• Strong interpersonal skills, collaborative team member in both virtual and physical teams.
• Eager to work in an international environment showing an appreciation of Diversity & Inclusion, how it’s applied to colleagues with diverse talents, skills, and attributes to enable SAP to become more successful.
• Adaptable in problem identification and solution formulation.
• Knowledge of ERP systems, especially SAP FI/CO accounting & reporting modules.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office programs, especially MS Excel.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Qualified Accountant with suitable experience in finance & accounting, or special focus on Revenue Accounting.
• At least 1 year of experience in Record-to-Report processes, or at least 3 years of finance experience in other areas.
• Or a minimum of 2 years of practical accounting experience (accounting function in a corporate organization or audit firm).
  Note: Please submit your resume in English!

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

The Global Financial Success (GFS) is a key pillar of SAP’s Global Finance Infrastructure. And the GFS service delivery model allows SAP to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness as well as quality of the finance processes while delivering global end-to-end process standards.
Within GFS is our Global Accounting Services (GA) organization, and members of our Revenue Accounting Team are experienced professionals responsible for complex revenue accounting tasks globally. Revenue Accounting members deliver the best quality revenue reporting services to global stakeholders and customers supported by our organization.
Interaction and collaboration are essential amongst GFS process delivery teams (e.g. O2I, P2P, T&E, etc.) and other business functions (e.g. GCF, Controlling, HR, GPO, etc.).
Our new colleague will report to our global Finance Operational Manager responsible for Percentage-of-Completion revenue workstream.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

As a GFS member in revenue accounting, we will support you to gradually deepen your expertise and knowledge. In addition, this role offers many development opportunities that will help you shape your future career path as you will be involved in revenue projects, process improvements, automations, etc., alongside with your core accounting responsibility.

The GA Revenue Accounting team focuses on the following IFRS15 revenue accounting methods / SAP product clusters:

• Ratable / Cloud & Maintenance
• Point in time / Software & Services
• Percentage of completion / Services

We are looking for a Revenue Accounting member responsible for Professional Services and Training workstream contracts in our Americas Region.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing timely and accurate accounting data based on IFRS15 Group financial rules processed by the General Accounting teams.
• Verify and monitor correctness of revenue accounting relevant data and associated deliverables.
• Prepare relevant data in quarterly and year-end reporting packages.
• Ensure a high satisfaction level amongst service customers and maintaining excellent business relations with key stakeholders.
• Maintain excellent relationships within GFS, and with our internal stakeholders CFR, LCA, Controllers, CFOs, and internal as well as external service providers or global functions.
• Ensures that SAP corporate changes are incorporated into our Revenue COE processes.
• Monitor the entity/entities meets full internal and external audit requirements including SOX for the COE process assigned to.
• Support, within the assigned COE, the relationship with (tax) auditors to ensure adequate certification.
• Support Projects covering the processes and entities under responsibility.
• Contribute to process improvement ideas and/or initiatives.
• Ensure process alignment and standardization across countries and regions.