Finance Associate (f/m/d) - Commercial Business Partner

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.

What you’ll do

As a member of the German Commercial Cloud team within SAP’s Global Commercial Finance department, you will get the opportunity to bring out the best in you in providing commercial support to contribute to SAP's success. In this role, you will be closely collaborating with several stakeholders across the regions such as Sales, Legal, Revenue Recognition, and Global Commercial Finance Center of Expertise.

The key aspects and responsibilities of your role will be:

• Supporting Sales in shaping deals for SAP's customers and coordinate activities across multi-functional teams from a deal’s quote to its closing.
• Reviewing and approving deals while ensuring compliance and completeness of quotes.
• Preparing contractual documents from templates as well as drafting legal language for deal specifics.
• Guiding and advising our internal stakeholders, especially the Sales team, on approvals, policies, and contracting requirements.
• Playing an active role to drive automation, standardization, and process improvements.

What you bring

• University Degree, preferably in Business or Economics, is advantageous.
• Language skills in German (C1 required) and English (B2).
• Excellent command of MS Office (Excel, Word, and Outlook).
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and find solutions to business challenges.
• Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines.
• Diligent work ethic and strong analytical skills.
• Internal and external "Customer Focus" approach.
• Strong communication skills, proactive mindset, and "can do" attitude.
• Previous experience in sales supporting functions is a plus.

What's in it for you

Since the Commercial team is collaborating with numerous internal stakeholders, this role will provide deep insights into how SAP’s Sales and Finance organizations work. As a Commercial Business Partner, you will contribute significantly to some of the most important cloud software deals between SAP and Germany’s biggest companies.

Moreover, SAP puts high emphasis on a culture that fosters personal growth. Besides the SAP-wide learning offerings, we established several additional opportunities to grow on our team level. Among others, you will benefit from:

• Team workshops on various topics to learn together as a team and work on improving the ways we collaborate.
• Opportunities to work on job-related projects aside from daily business, as well as dedicated roles (single point of contact) for topics with high relevance to our team.
• Personal development offerings to gain competencies that will help shape a future career path.
• Possibilities to join external customer meetings to support Sales colleagues in contract negotiations.
• Job Shadowings to get to know other departments and roles within the company.
• Travel budgets to visit other SAP offices and connect with colleagues there.

Meet your team

The Global Commercial Finance Germany team currently comprises two Cloud teams and one On-Premise/Private Cloud team. We are open-minded people and have created a great atmosphere to work in, with most colleagues located in Walldorf and Berlin. Collaboration, good communication and willingness to help each other out are top priorities.

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.