Senior Controller for CoE Workforce Analytics & Insights

Job Description

We help the world run better
At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed.

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

In this position, you will play a crucial role in leading headcount analysis, transforming complex workforce data into clear and strategic insights for key stakeholders and the Executive Board. With a strong corporate mindset, you will spotlight trends, patterns, and risks that inform critical business decisions. Within the CoE Workforce Analytics & Insights, you will guide end‑to‑end headcount planning and reporting, ensuring quality and consistency while enhancing reporting assets and advancing predictive, AI‑driven planning capabilities. You will develop and refine headcount and personnel expense forecasting models to support standardized calculations, scenario simulations and cost‑driver analysis, while also helping to harmonize payroll postings, accruals and related data to provide reliable, high‑quality insights that strengthen transparency and enable confident, data‑driven decision‑making. You will also support company-wide projects by delivering workforce-related data and insights and shaping strategic processes together with stakeholders from Finance, People & Culture and Strategy & Operations.

YOUR PROFILE

• University degree in Finance, Controlling, Business Administration or a related field
• Strong analytical mindset combined with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a high affinity for modern tools and digital technologies
• Deep understanding of controlling and finance processes, including experience with relevant systems such as Business Warehouse, Data Analyzer and Business Data Cloud
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to turn data‑driven insights into clear, impactful visualizations for senior stakeholders
• Fluent English skills, both written and spoken
• At least 3 years of professional experience in controlling, finance or HR, with a proven track record of driving insights and supporting strategic decision‑making

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Center of Excellence (CoE) Workforce Analytics & Insights, part of Corporate Controlling, acts as a strategic expert hub that drives standards, innovation and best practices related to workforce and personnel expenses across organization. The team provides deep functional expertise and delivers clear, data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to optimize workforce performance in support of our operating profit ambitions. We inform the Executive Board and finance organization by analyzing workforce trends and patterns, and by using AI/predictive-powered planning to simulate scenario-based headcount and P&L outcomes end-to-end. Working closely with Controlling, Finance, People & Culture and Strategy & Operations, we continuously simplify and innovate our tools and processes to present actionable, easy-to-consume findings that drive better data-driven workforce decisions.

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 world.

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Requisition ID: 448617 | Work Area: Finance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid