Position Overview:

The Senior SAP Security Administratorâ??s role is to design, implement, and test policies and controls for user access within the companyâ??s SAP environment. This position will interact with Information Technology (IT) staff, business process owners and auditors to ensure information security is in compliance with the companyâ??s security policies.

Specific Duties:

• Analyze and evaluate the security controls used to protect company data.
• Work with business teams to develop, implement, and improve on existing security controls.
• Overall responsibility to improve security structure that is easy to provision, to validate and remediate as part of User Access Reviews.
• Develop and maintain authorization process design and related documentation for SAP.
• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for SAP security.
• Respond rapidly to requests requiring security control changes.
• Maintain current knowledge regarding security and compliance standards.
• Design, build, implement and support SAP security roles and profiles to all SAP environments ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place.
• Translate functional requirements into the technical design for SAP security roles.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute operational administration of user provisioning and de-provisioning, password management, and other activities.
• Facilitate security testing (positive and negative) for security roles as well as integration testing of security access.
• Communicate SAP authorization requirements among business process teams.
• Train junior SAP support team on SAP Security best practices.
• Ensure confidentiality of proprietary information; adhere to company security policies.
• Adhere to company software licensing policies and practices.

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Bachelorâ??s degree in computer science, data security, or a related field
• At least five years of security experience in SAP ECC, BI, Solution Manager, SCM, CRM, TMS, and XI
• At least two years of experience with Security Weaverâ??s Separations Enforcer and Emergency Repair tools or equivalent tools.
• In-depth understanding of segregation of duties and remediation
• Completion of a full lifecycle SAP security implementation
• General knowledge of business processes within finance, sales and manufacturing
• In-depth understanding of role-based and task based access security controls
• Experience with SAP focused audits and risk assessments
• Experience with SAP user access reviews
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate security concepts to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with internal teams, external consultants, and vendors
• Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure environment
• Experience with enterprise wide role structuring projects preferred
• Information security and/or SAP professional certification(s) preferred
• Experience with BPC security controls design and implementation preferred
• Experience with Business Objects preferred