Markus Fucker

- Leading a global finance organization comprised of 130+ professionals across over 25 countries, including multiple levels of management, while spearheading our ongoing finance transformation initiatives. - Managing the financial performance, accuracy, and compliance of SAP's Global Services business, which generates over $5 billion in bookings and revenue annually through the efforts of more than 20,000 employees. - Trusted business partner and strategic advisor to the Global Services Head and the entire Global Services Senior Leadership team. My focus is on driving rapid software adoption and profitable growth by collaborating with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to make informed business decisions and execute operational plans effectively. - Driving innovation and standardization across all finance processes for Services, ensuring that both business and regulatory requirements are met. My goal is to achieve high customer satisfaction through the automation and AI-driven enhancement of our financial operations.

- Leading a diverse finance team across the US, Canada and Latin America that manages financial success, accuracy and compliance for North America’s Cloud Success Services (CSS) organization generating annually over 1.6bn in bookings and revenue supported by 2,400+ employees. - Trusted Business Partner and strategic business advisor to regional CSS Head and COO to drive profitable growth while partnering with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders on business decisions and operational plan execution. - Commercial deal structure and contract negotiations.

- Led a team of 12 diverse talents across several countries. E2E ownership of all regional financial planning, analysis and reporting processes for SAP's Services organization in North America. - Business Partnership and Controllership to Senior Executives and key Stakeholders. Led various analysis and initiatives around strategic investments and financial returns.

- Coordinated globally all cloud revenue forecast and budgeting activities by providing tools and techniques to the regional and line of business (LoB) controllers and consolidating the results. - Led the integration of SAP Concur's Cloud revenues into SAP standard reporting and planning systems. - Coordinated, reviewed and approved as a team lead for SAP's global cloud and floor pricing team, the pricing for new SAP cloud products based on submitted business cases, pricing models and cost expectations as part of the commercialization process.

- Led the build-up of a newly formed global Project Controlling team to govern SAP’s Premium Engagement business by setting up and rolling out global F&A processes, systems, guidelines and policies to the regions. - Business lead in the global implementation of SAP's Revenue Accounting and Reporting solution and IFRS15 transition for SAP’s 1bn+ Premium Engagement organization (incl. regional business roll-outs and enablement).

- Conducted the financial planning, monitoring and Percentage-of-Completion (PoC) accounting for multi-million customer services engagements and multiple element arrangements (MEAs). - Ensured adherence to all corporate controlling policies, GAAP, IFRS and SOX guidelines.

- Served as trusted financial business partner to Senior Leaders by proving analysis and insights into financial, operational and productivity KPIs. - Led E2E all financial planning, analysis and reporting processes for dedicated professional services sales and delivery organizations.

Work experience during my bachelor studies: 04/2013 - 07/2013: Presales for SAP-Financials, SAP Deutschland AG & Co.KG, Walldorf Practical Bachelor Thesis: Implications of the In-Memory technology on the Finance and Accounting departments. 01/2013 - 02/2013: SAP Solution Consulting for SAP Extended Warehouse Management, SAP Deutschland AG & Co.KG, Walldorf Support in an SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) implementation project on site at the customer premises. 07/2012 - 09/2012: SAP Solution Management Emerging Markets, SAP Labs China, Shanghai Coordination of the implementation of the Lean management model into the Chinese Go-to-Market approach for Finance and HR. 01/2012 - 03/2012: Global Services Controlling, SAP AG, Walldorf Project thesis: Software revenues by selling mobile enterprise apps – An analysis of SAP‘s revenue model. 07/2011 - 09/2011: SAP Sales Account Team, SAP Deutschland AG & Co.KG, Walldorf Preparation of customer presentations and presenting of the results to the client, support in customer campaigns and workshops, planning and coordination of customer events. 01/2011 - 03/2011: SAP Customer References Department, SAP Deutschland AG & Co.KG, Walldorf Project thesis: Development of a data quality concept to ensure a high qualification standard of reference customer data.