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Deal Desk within Sales Finance provides strategic, cross-functional and comprehensive assistance to sales contracting and financial compliance, process improvements, and building scalable solutions that help our sales team and leadership make informed decisions, with a focus on streamlining global efforts across the business.

We are a distributed team with coverage across all GEOs and collaborate daily with most customer-oriented functions in the organisation (ELT, SLT, Sales, Tech Sales, Product, Legal, Finance). We also play a meaningful role in structuring and approving of all significant transactions within Elastic essentially helping to craft all future deals that drive our revenue growth.

• Act as a business partner to Sales and Finance in developing strategies for complex deals with a focus on financial and revenue compliance.
• Execute against and maintain EMEA geographic Deal Desk support framework.
• Provide Deal Desk support for super-geo Manager.
• Implement and lead approvals for non-standard deals and effectively collaborate across Sales, Finance, and Legal.
• Serve as a trusted adviser to sales executives and their teams on pricing, product configuration, and business terms to support sales efforts.
• Strong presence and communication with the Field.
• Ability to execute strategies and handle under supervision sales enablement, deal optimization, profitability and strategic positioning initiatives.
• Drive and execute decision reviews, approvals, and executing across proficiencies (quoting, legal, revenue, etc.).
• Support the global Deal Desk leadership to deliver consistent and outstanding support to our sales organization.
• Propose and execute initiatives as part of the long term strategy for the Deal Desk team and business.
• Team centric approach, motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment to help our growing business.

• Assess Financial and revenue risk on non-standard deals and understand and embed financial/legal compliance.
• Propose and incorporate custom terms and legal edits into order forms and contract documents.
• Coordinate and handle cross-departmental approvals outside of standard detailed workflow.
• Maintain and update repository of legal language templates for non-standard deals for specific offerings
• Understand and carry out revenue recognition policies across all deals.
• Support RFP/RFI/Vendor Questionnaires and drive the enablement process related to such requests.

• Build and handle detailed CRM workflows around Deal Desk sales engagement and Revenue team alerting for non-standard orders.
• Conduct due diligence and construct financial and legal requirements for changes in existing offerings and launch of new offerings.
• Identify gaps in current Deal Desk processes (both operational and systematic) and create improvements for efficiencies.
• General experience in building IT requirements and enhancements, and project management.

• Fluency in English language. If you also speak German, this would be a huge advantage. 
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Business Administration/Legal or related competency.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in Sales Operations, Channel Operations, Deal Desk, Contract Administration or related.
• Strong attention to detail 
• High proficiency in MS Office or GSuite, Salesforce.com (CPQ a plus).
• Experience working in a SaaS or high-tech company is also a plus.

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We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

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