Senior Finance Specialist

Job description / Role

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.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

SAP is seeking experienced professionals to conduct compliance controls as part of a high risk transaction review program team. This team carries out a robust set of controls and provides compliance oversight to drive improvements in SAP's exposure for high risk transactions. The transaction risk reviewer will be the first line of defense for anti-corruption controls and will work with multiple internal stakeholders and gather sufficient information to determine transaction compliance status, recommend corrective actions, and work with team leads to manage escalations.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

- Transaction Review: Perform compliance controls in accordance with agreed upon procedures.
- Resolution & Escalation: Recommend corrective actions in order to resolve non-compliant transactions. Escalate and stop transactions as needed.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Engage with multiple internal stakeholders across the transaction lifecycle to build and enforce a strong culture of governance and compliance.
- Communication: Deliver formal and informal executive communications for regional leadership as needed and provide input to Team Leads as needed to support corporate communication needs.
- Support: Assist Team Leads with training, communications, and change management related to high risk compliance controls.
- Process Management: Recommend improvements to transaction review processes. Support additional ad hoc activities related to business compliance.

Requirements

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

- Transaction risk management: compliance or business transaction structure
- Strong process management abilities
- Proven analytical and root cause analysis capabilities
- Comfort with ambiguity / ability to navigate uncertainty
- Capable of multitasking and working with changing priorities and deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and influence without authority
- Creative approach to problem solving
- Ability to evaluate a set of facts and circumstances and use professional judgement to make the appropriate decision
- Excellent written and verbal communications (ability to clearly and succinctly convey complex compliance issues in layman's terms)
- Great interpersonal skills
- Strong attention to detail

WORK EXPERIENCE

- 4+ years professional experience in risk management, compliance, regulatory, or other governance and control related roles. Experience in policy creation, management, or enforcement is beneficial.
- What you can expect is professional onboarding, exciting career progression, a diverse work environment providing growth opportunities, learning & development possibilities, and an international business network for you to leverage. Interesting non-work related activities (volunteering, charity, sport events,..)
- This role is based at the ultra-modern Metronom office building directly above the Nove Butovice metro station. The location encompasses SAP's vision for the perfect work-life balance by featuring uniquely decorated relaxation rooms, parents' and kids' room.

BENEFITS

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.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.