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SAP • Bangalore, IN

SAP Finance Controlling Advisor

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Job Description

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.

Purpose & Objectives:

Do you want to be part of a great team and actively shape the future of Business Area Controlling (BAC). This might just be the right position for you:

The BAC Services Cross team has an opening for a (Senior) Controller who is passionate about business partnering and business steering driving simplification, standardization, and automation. BAC Services Cross, as part of the Global Controlling team, is responsible to actively manage the Services P&Ls, as well as being a business partner to the respective business leaders. To successfully manage this task and to further strengthen our business support, we are looking for a (Senior) Controller focusing on Business Unit Controlling as well as driving key steering dimensions through a holistic management reporting to support business leaders.

What you''ll do:

  • Financial Close and Reporting: Ensure the highest level of quality in financial close processes, prepare, and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, and maintain accuracy and compliance in financial data.
  • Budgeting and Forecasting: Drive budgeting, forecasting, and Latest Estimate (LE) processes across relevant Market Units and the regional level, including coordination, preparation, consolidation, and analysis.
  • Business Partnering: Collaborate with Operations, Delivery Managers, and T&A Management to provide financial insights and act as a trusted advisor. Provide strategic input and financial guidance to support business objectives and initiatives, prepare presentations and reports for senior management. Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders.
  • Financial Analysis: Conduct detailed financial analysis to identify areas of improvement, support business performance reviews, leveraging relevant Services KPIs and metrics to evaluate operational efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Process Improvement: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive process improvements, enhance efficiency in financial operations. Support strategic projects aimed at simplification, automation, and standardization.

What you'll bring:

  • University degree in Controlling, Finance, Accounting or Business Administration
  • Work experience with a focus on controlling or finance processes, experience with budget and forecast processes, experience with common SAP applications (e.g., ISP, BW)
  • Ability to support drive complex topics in a global organization.
  • Accuracy and ability to prioritize topics and their financial impact.
  • Excellent analytical and strong problem-solving skills, strong sense of prioritization, results and execution focused.
  • Comfort with working in both a virtual team and independently showing significant own initiative
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal, presentation and writing skills to successfully interact with colleagues and executive management.
  • Fluent English language skills oral and written.

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Location- Bangalore/Gurgaon/Pune/Mumbai

Experience- 7-12 yrs

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.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: 413469 | Work Area: Finance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.

Company benefits

25 (UK) 30 (Germany) 21 (India) days annual leave + bank holidays
Accrued annual leave – 1 day/year up to 30 days (UK)
Open to job sharing
Sabbaticals
Adoption leave – Up to 52 weeks (UK)
Open to part time work for some roles
Returnship
Equity packages
Shared parental leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Fertility benefits
Pregnancy support
On-site childcare
Share options
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Gym membership
Dental coverage
Health insurance
Private GP service
Mental health platform access
Life assurance
Life insurance
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced paternity leave
Travel insurance
Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Bike parking
Enhanced sick pay
Emergency leave
Enhanced sick days
Company car
Open to part-time employees
Work from anywhere scheme
Childcare credits
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Carer’s leave
Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
Family health insurance
Women’s health leave
Annual bonus
401K
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Employee discounts
Loyalty programme
Non-contributory pension
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
L&D budget
Language lessons
LinkedIn learning license
Study suppot
Studying sabbaticals
Lunch and learns
In house training
Hackathons
Professional subscriptions
Further education support

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