Senior Finance Specialist Royalty

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What you'll build

 

 

As a member of the License-2-Pay team, you can take your finance career to the next level, by focusing on dedicated, assigned process-groups, while also expanding your expertise in key strategic areas within SAP’s Global Finance & Administration structure

 

As a Senior Finance Specialist, Royalty, your core activities will include:

• Royalty administration of third-party licensing agreements and SAP end-user licensing agreements, with respect to third party products across the SAP Group (SAP branded, Vendor branded/SolEx, and Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM)).
• Review, calculation & reporting of third-party royalty fees arising from SAP reselling third- party intellectual property (IP), based on underlying Commercial Inbound License agreements.
• Administer and handle Special Bid Offers (SBO) and/or Customer Third Party Offerings (CTPO).
• Serve as a stakeholder for internal and external financial audits.
• Ensure the highest quality and compliance standards.
• Support End-to-End process improvements and initiatives.

 

Additionally, supplemental tasks within the role may involve

 

• Support of organizational development initiatives (e.g., process (re-)design, system improvements).
• Participation in cross-organizational projects.
• Reconciliation of historical records

 

In addition to the aforementioned activities, this role offers numerous development opportunities on other skills and competencies, which will help shape your future career path at SAP. You will benefit from the opportunity to expand your network by engaging in support activities such as cross-organizational activities, global projects etc

 

 

What you bring

 

• Good understanding of Quote-to-Cash process.
• Knowledge of SAP ERP FI module would be a big plus.
• Strong analytical skills to drive root-cause analysis for complex problems.
• High service attitude with strong focus on compliance.
• Flexible team player; able to deal with transition and change.
• Strong ability to work independently.
• Fluent in English (both written and verbal).

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

2+ years of practical experience in Quote-to-Cash process or any other finance related field e.g., Commercial Finance, Order-to-Invoice, Revenue Accounting etc

 

Where you belong

 

License-2-Pay Royalty team members are experienced finance professionals who are responsible for the administration of third-party royalties under Commercial Inbound Licensing agreements.

In order to ensure smooth and seamless operations, the team delivers best-in-class services to various external and internal stakeholders: Third-Party Licensors, other Global Licensing & Royalty Management professionals, Controlling, other Lines of Business (e.g., Partner Management, Global Pricing, Product Owners, Process Management, IT), etc., and collaborates on multiple work-streams (e.g. Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Invoice Cloud, Software & Support)

 

 

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 indu