Finance Specialist

**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.

**YOUR FUTURE ROLE**

This role is part of Global Licensing’s Commercial Inbound team, consisting primarily of leading contract negotiations with external partners. Other activities include supporting internal stakeholders from various SAP Executive Board areas: Global Finance & Accounting, Customer Success, Product Engineering and Technology & Innovation. Our efforts also include initiatives and projects to improve, simplify and standardize the existing processes in the Commercial Inbound Licensing Management team.

The Position reports to the Licensing Management Co-Lead, based in Prague, who is the Commercial Inbound Team Manager.

Specific tasks include the following:

- Negotiate inbound third-party agreements, which includes presenting templates to potential partners, providing clarifications, aligning and coordinating internal teams, and owning the responsive-redline
- Review third-party agreements and/or online terms and assess them against the SAP standard terms & conditions
- Prepare & present approval requests, risk assessments and mitigation plans, in close cooperation with other stakeholders
- Perform reviews of existing agreements, in support of Licensing Validation requests
- Provide guidance regarding Commercial Inbound Licensing-related processes and policies, to internal and external stakeholders
- Coordinate and execute special and complex ad-hoc tasks
- Manage the contract life-cycle, including drafting and executing amendments, handling terminations, renewals, supporting partners with general contract administration topics, etc.
- The role will entail taking ownership of a portfolio of existing and new partner agreements
- Support defined projects across Global Licensing & Royalty Management, taking over work packages and workstreams

**YOUR PROFILE**
- Several years of work experience
- At least 1-2 years of active and direct ownership of contract negotiations and drafting experience
- Proficiency in reading, interpreting and drafting complex commercial agreements
- Familiarity with licensing, risk assessment and compliance, preferably in software or any other digital industry
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to work with multiple systems and interfaces while maintaining focus on the big picture
- Project management experience
- Experience within Finance roles is a big plus
- High service attitude, while making no compromises on compliance
- Ability to think proactively and create pragmatic solutions
- Good analytical skills
- High level of ownership, responsibility, motivation, and drive
- Be a flexible team player, able to deal with transition and change
- Being able to work independently
- Open for new topics, learning and assignments
- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills
- Strong networking skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

SAP’s Global Licensing & Royalty Management organization is responsible for partnering with third party providers, in order to negotiate and acquire the rights to use and integrate third-party Intellectual Properties (software, web/cloud services, content, etc.) into SAP products and solutions, in accordance with SAP Product Licensing standards. As a function, Global Licensing also manages the lifecycle of third-party agreements; ensures SAP’s compliance with third party contractual requirements; and approves third-party IP usage in SAP products and solutions, per negotiated terms. We work in close cooperation with SAP Development and Product Lines of Business, with Tech Legal, Global Support, Finance Controlling, Partner Ecosystem organizations, Field Sales areas, etc.
In short, we help to enable and expedite the creation of amazing SAP products and services.

**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.

Requisition ID: 429820 | Work Area: Finance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | E