SAP Internal Financial Controls Senior Analyst

The SAP Internal Financial Controls (IFC) Senior Analyst role will be responsible for supporting the Head of SAP Internal Financial Controls in managing and delivering an efficient financial control environment for SAP S/4 HANA and related finance systems, with a focus on centralisation, standardisation, automation, and optimisation of financial control processes.

The GRC CoE acts as a second line of defence in support of Business Units’ own financial control environments.

The incumbent will partner with the Head of GRC and Business Unit Heads to promote adherence to agree upon financial control processes. This role will furthermore be to support for the identification and reporting of deficiencies and recommendations on how this can be addressed.

The key performance areas of this role include the following:

GRC Strategy Development for SLS
Support the Head of SAP GRC in the development of the IFC strategy for SLS to ensure greater compliance to required standards.
Support various strategic initiatives ensuring greater compliance and awareness in support of realising the IFC strategy.
Financial Risk and Controls Support
Act as second line of defence in the design, implementation and management of control processes and documentation? by:

Supporting management in the identification, design and implementation of financial risk and controls through normal business as usual (BAU) operations and transformation initiatives (change in people/process/technology).
Documenting identified financial risks and controls in a risk and control matrix.
Defining and maintaining standards used to document financial risks and controls.
Assist control owners and control performers in business and IT with walkthroughs of controls
Maintaining the SAP Access Control ruleset to reflect the key access controls identified by business.
Optimisation
Continue to identify, design and implement optimisation opportunities in the financial control environment through innovation and automation.


Support SAP GRC Solution
Support the management and delivery of key financial controls through SAP Access Control 12 and Process Control 12 applications:
Schedule SOD Review workflows to risk owners
Maintain User Access review process in SAP Access Control
Maintenance of Access Control custom ruleset at conceptual and permission/action level
Run and interpret Access Risk Analysis reports and provide assistance to identify remedial actions
Document and maintain the risks, controls and control owners in the repository (Process Control)
Defining and documenting manual control procedure steps
Regular review of access (UAR) and mitigations against the access risk ruleset (periodic) with root cause analysis
Following up on escalation workflows for configuration control changes
Creation/testing of new automated business rules and assignment to controls
Monitor dashboards and in