(Senior) Product Specialist for the fXperience Development Center in Brno

SAP Services s.r.o.

Place of work
Holandská 6/8, 639 00 BRNO, Brno - City
Contract type
full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES:
The LoB Finance team is an experienced group within SAP working on several core SAP products, including the recently launched S/4HANA Finance. The focus of the group is on driving innovations in their product portfolio and playing a crucial frontrunner role on new apps, technologies, architectures, and processes.

The group is currently founding a new development unit with a global setup that will focus on development of front-end apps, leveraging latest technologies and latest SAP backend logic of the S/4HANA Finance and other ecosystems. The unit will be at the very forefront of development activities of the LoB Finance and the overall SAP P&I Development organization – leveraging latest technologies, with highest visibility and impact.

Be part of a completely new team, help shape a new team culture, join highly engaged colleagues, and collaborate within an international setup with experts from around the world. We are looking for experienced leaders who enjoy working with highly engaged colleagues to create cutting-edge products that have a global impact.

As a (Senior) Product Specialist for Finance, you will help translate market and customer needs into competitive and innovative products. You will develop compelling product visions based on your own understanding of the market requirements as well as direct interaction with potential customers. You will work with engineers, designers and user research experts to derive a high quality product backlog and ensure its successful execution from the first idea to a successful market entry and beyond.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS:
As a (Senior) Product Specialist, you will:
•Define the next generation for financial applications with a superior user experience
•Translate market and customer needs into competitive products
•Drive and ensure the prioritization and description of the product backlog
•Lead engineering teams through rapid innovation cycles with a clear focus on Cloud and continuous delivery
•Be the top expert with deep financial expertise and knowledge resource for financial process execution
•Be accountable for coordinating and collecting end-to-end feedback from customers, development and other relevant stakeholders
•Apply Design Thinking to foster innovation

Employee perks, benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth
• Possibilities of continuous education
• Pleasant work conditions
• Work in an international environment
• Daily use of SAP software
• Working on internal projects
• Wide range of benefits (fully paid vouchers, contribution to the life and pension insurance,... )

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

English - Advanced (C1)

Personality requirements and skills

Required skills:
•Excellent product and business expertise in Finance/controlling either as an accountant, controller, implementation consultant with multiple implementation cycles of large SAP or non-SAP ERP implementations
•Proven ability to communicate with customers and engineering at all levels
•Experience with agile development projects is an advantage
•Experience in applying Design Thinking
•Excellent English language skills, German a plus

WORK EXPERIENCE
•We are looking for candidates with 5+ years of experience in Accounting, Consulting and/or Product Management for Financials.

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Brief description of the company

As the leading technology company for digital businesses, SAP serves nearly 300,000 customers in 190 countries. 80 million users make SAP the largest enterprise cloud company in the world, along with business networks that transact nearly $1 trillion annually. The Global Finance Shared Services organization (GFSS) is a business unit with 1,200+ employees delivering end-to-end finance operations from a set of vibrant and multicultural locations around the globe: Buenos Aires, Dublin, Manila, Prague and Singapore.
Our highly engaged teams specialize in Order to Invoice, Cash Collections, Procure to Pay, Travel & Expense and Record to Report. Additionally, at GFSS, you will find: a highly skilled workforce collaborating across the globe on common topics, engaged colleagues creating value by simplifying and optimizing operations and one motivated global team working together towards shared goals.
Also, at GFSS, you will find: exciting career opportunities, a diverse work environment providing opportunities to grow, development & learning opportunities and an international business network for you to learn and grow from.
Within GFSS, SAP employees have an opportunity to handle end-to-end high-quality finance services to SAP customers throughout the Globe.
ID: 2695699  Dátum zverejnenia: 18.8.2016