Value Advisor Expert For SAP Finance

Value Advisor Expert for SAP Finance


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Employment: Full Time

What we offer

Our company culture is focused on helping our employees enable innovation by building breakthroughs together. 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. Apply now!

About the team
The SAP Industry & Value Advisory (IVA) organization is chartered with differentiating SAP as the innovation partner of choice by making the Intelligent Enterprise value and experience real for every customer. With 600+ IVAs around the world, the IVA team is focused on championing collaborative customer engagements that create business and societal value leveraging SAP’s innovations.

The Global Industry and Value Advisory team is responsible of the successful execution of SAP’s Industry and Value mandate The Global IVA team is responsible of setting the global team’s strategy, customer engagement methodology, supporting value management tools, content, thought leadership and talent enablement programs. The team is also responsible of supporting key customer engagements and working with our technology, innovation, engineering and GTM teams to ensure that the value dimension is considered and incorporated at the point of solution design and commercialization.
The Thought Leadership and Value Content team owns SAP’s value management platform, builds value content, and thought leadership assets in support of our key GTM solutions and innovations, and drives enablement across all field-facing organizations. They’re also responsible of supporting Board-sponsored special projects where the value dimension is key for success of new programs.

Responsibilities:

This role as an Industry Value Advisor, Expert within the Content and Thought Leadership team consisting of 8 high performance colleagues. Candidate will be expected to lead value proposition for SAP solutions focusing on Finance (Record-to-Report) domain. Below are the tasks and responsibilities.

Thought Leadership and Value content
– Lead and develop thought leadership and value content aligned with SAP’s strategy and digital consumption requirements
– Provide guidance to enable sales, broader Virtual Account Teams, and partners on SAP’s value management methodology

Customer Engagements:
– Scale and standardize value content and methodology for customer executive meetings
– Work with Virtual Account Teams to support and refine customer deliverables to incorporate SAP’s differentiated value proposition

Value Showcase
– Envision and guide development of next generation value platform
– Provide guidance to develop customer reference stories to showcase relevant value metrics

Key responsibilities in the role:
– Capture latest value management ideas, research, feedback, and best practices in driving value content creation for record-to-report processes and SAP solutions in finance
– Create and contribute to Thought Leadership whitepapers, campaigns, and other assets
– Collaborate with regional IVAs and contribute to customer engagements
– Manage Value Drivers and content for Value Lifecycle Manager (VLM) – good understanding of VLM and value advisory toolset
– Support and accelerate SAP’s solution marketing activities in the Finance domain using social media and other means
– Create value assets and collaterals for global SAP and partners
– Regularly update value proposition for new product releases
– Research for competitive intelligence, market trends and developments
– Lead and support cross-functional projects and campaigns
– Collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders
– Provide expertise on SAP’s finance capabilities from value perspective
– Ensure best practice sharing, knowledge management, and continuous productivity improvement

Requirements

Qualification:
– Ideal candidate should have experience of working with SAP’s solutions in Finance domain in sales/pre-sales/consulting/solution management/product management
– 10+ years of professional experience across Sales / Consulting / Industry including min 4 years of strategy/management consulting experience with leading international firm
– Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) required, MBA/ CA or equivalent degree from an accredited university preferred
– Strong creativity and originality of thought in content creation and curation
– Executive presence
– Strong knowledge of Finance processes and experience of SAP S/4HANA finance capabilities
– Team player in a diverse global team working across multiple time-zones
– Knowledge of value selling methodology & processes, opportunities, value chain and ecosystem analyses experience
– Experience with business case creation, analysis, and research
– Customer facing experience including managing business and IT alignment, executive interview techniques, design and facilitation of executive workshops along with diverse perspectives and expectations
– Strong project management skills and experience leading multiple engagements in parallel
– Fluency in English, any other language is an asset

We are SAP

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 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 200 million users and more than 100,000 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, we build breakthroughs, together.

Our inclusion promise

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.

About the Company

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world’s largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally.

As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP’s product portfolio and extends SAP’s leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.

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