Local Chief Accountant

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Responsible for managing and administering the finance and accounting function including commercial.

For accounting, this includes functions that are performed to meet accounting and financial reporting requirements that result from legal obligations or SAP internal policies/processes/guidelines.

For finance function, this includes providing the F&A Community with guidelines, standardized processes and services, taking over the responsibility for centralized tasks and activities.
For Finance, this may include functions related to key finance areas. This may include overseeing and managing revenue recognition, commissions, order management, contracts, accounts receivable, treasury management, or additional functions.

For commercial business partnering this includes activities like deal approval coordination, advising on deal structure, providing detailed pricing information, identifying risk and revenue recognition issues and finding practical commercial solutions to meet the needs of the business while not compromising on compliance, all administrative activities of contract - and offer preparation, assessment, clearing and settlement, including consulting and process activities in the framework of commercial business support.

**Accountability**
- manages projects, defines deliverables and provides definitive advice and interpretation of situations
- ensures business critical & innovative results
- ensures that goals and milestones are met and approved budgets are managed appropriately
- manages escalation appropriately
- tracks single project budget line
- builds strategic partnerships with key decision makers in customer & partner organization
- may include team lead or supervisory responsibiities

**Complexity**
- manages projects of high volume or high risk/complexity
- provides regular project status and updates

**Experience**
- sound professional experience
- deep knowledge of project management skills
- depending on LoB has a PMI, Six Sigma or equivalent certification
- if in Six Sigma has black belt

**Communication**
- represents SAP to customers' - is responsible for delivery of quality outcomes of projects of high volume or high risk
- represents SAP to customers
- finds common ground for cooperation within project team
- formulates clear project plans incl. mile stones, timeline and sub projects
- communicates messages relevant for project in a timely manner and with constructive feedback to project team
- captures opinions and expectations of stakeholder and communicates them to the project team
- Functional path specific definition (for the Project path specific definitions please view above):_

**Accountability**
- manages expertise ensuring business critical & innovative results
- responsible for delivery of outcomes of complex and innovative functional issues integrating client needs, strategic business goal of the function and financial objectives
- involved in directing the implementation and execution of functional business plans integrating functional and financial objectives
- can make functional decisions and recommendations of a broad nature
- may include team lead or supervisory responsibilities

**Complexity**
- shares in-depth knowledge and experience with direct team to enable decision-making and provide innovative solutions to complex business issues
- works on complex technical projects or business issues requiring strong technical knowledge

**Experience**
- deep professional experience in several areas
- has strong functional skills
- broad knowledge of all areas within particular corporate sub-function or a function within division

**Communication**
- finds common ground for functional cooperation
- communicates clear functional requirements and targets
- effectively settles different functional perspectives
- communicates messages related to area of expertise in a timely manner and with constructive feedback to colleagues & managers

**Key Responsibilities and Task**

Participates in the strategic design and execution of the finance and accounting function.

For accounting, this may include leading 1 or more functions that are performed to meet accounting and financial reporting requirements that result from legal obligations or SAP internal policies/processes/guidelines. For finance, this may include leading 1 or more functions related to key finance areas.

This may include overseeing and