SAP Security Analyst Job Description

SAP Security Analyst Job Description

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SAP security analyst provides back-up support for core modules in SAP; 1909 (FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, BC), BI/BW, SAP HCM, SAP CRM SAP Solution Manager and SAP Portal.

SAP Security Analyst Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Design, build, implement and support SAP security roles, profiles and authorizations to SAP ECC, CRM, SCM, Fiori, GRC, BI, GTS, BI4 and HANA environments and clients ensuring appropriate safeguards are in place
Supports account setup and maintenance, role development, authorization management in SAP landscape (ECC, SCM, BW, BOBJ, APO, CRM and Solution Manager)
Design, build, implement and support SAP security roles and profiles to all SAP environments
Create job function based role standards across all SAP landscapes
Maintain rule sets and job functions pertaining to SAP security roles in SAP Netweaver (ABAP & JAVA), Business Objects and HANA
Manage SAP Security settings, update profiles, roles, permission sets, and object & field level access as necessary
Streamline the processes of provisioning, updating and de-provisioning accounts
Act as liaison with business units to promote security awareness and identify/recommend quality business processes that not only meet data protection and system resiliency requirements, but preserve a quality user experience
Perform and review of SAP User License Audits performed via Solution Manager User License Workbench
Configuration of SAP SSO configuration and implementation standards

SAP Security Analyst Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for SAP Security Analyst

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SAP, CISA, CISSP, IAT, GIAC, CEH, CISM, GSEC, GRC, HANA

Education for SAP Security Analyst

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the SAP security analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, Education, Technical, Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Business/Administration

Skills for SAP Security Analyst

Desired skills for SAP security analyst include:

BW
SAP Solution Manager is desirable
GTS
Portal
SAP ECC
SAP Security and Risk Management
SAP transport management is desirable
CRM
Solution Manager and GRC modules and the critical access requirements
Professional standards in SAP Security administration and best practices

Desired experience for SAP security analyst includes:

Monitor Third Party Service Provider to ensure they comply to agreed processes and procedures for Security & Authorisation including Oracle Database Compliance
Assist Security Engineering manager and team, and business stakeholders with SAP Security and Authorisation related processes and issues
Assist the approval process of Change Management of Roles and Profiles to ensure compliance with agreed Security and Authorisation guidelines
Responsible for ensuring SAP changes/new implementations/upgrades conform to all Security and Authorisation Standards, which include compliance to segregation of duties and to rules on sensitive transactions in future country implementations
Perform periodic reviews by monitoring Early Watch Alerts and other critical Security Logs and follow up on application security issues/vulnerabilities to ensure compliance
Support / Manage the continuous improvement projects including the production of Role-to-Users and Risk Ruleset changes, Segregation of Duties optimization, and any other as deemed appropriate to satisfy data security and SOX audit requirements

SAP Security Analyst Examples

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SAP Security Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of SAP security analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for SAP security analyst
  • Actively participate in the A2B programme to ensure the solution is compliant with internal and external requirements from S&A perspective
  • Provide periodic progress feedback to Security Operations Manager on S&A Activities, Risks and Issues
  • To liaise with Process Owners, Business Solution Architects and Functional Consultants to review and develop business authorisation requirements into technical security specifications – appropriate engagement and documentation skills is vital to ensure that Business requirements are correctly translated to technical requirements
  • Review high-level and detailed solution design documents to ensure business requirement are fully and correctly captured
  • Define Acceptance criteria with business, and manage, maintain and track C Level plan to ensure timely execution of activities
  • Anticipate, identify potential slippages and dependencies in the project plan mitigate accordingly
  • Define / document technical role design specification, and perform walkthrough with 3 rd Party Support team/Team throughout the role build and implementation cycle
  • Establish and maintain relationship with Stakeholders., and communicate plan activities to ensure actions/meetings/resources are in place to execute on time
  • Track progress of related Change Requests with key stakeholders to meet planned timescales
  • Support Change Requests process through Change Control Review Board (CRB) processes
Qualifications for SAP security analyst
  • Co-ordinate data load, testing and implementation of user set up for in-scope systems in a timely manner
  • Manage Business Process Resource Allocation/BPML, User and Position-to-tcode reports and other OD&S tools, and ensure documentation is updated regularly, and role & security design standards are adhered to
  • Provide support and guidance on queries relating to Employee Mapping for all workstreams and in-scope changes
  • Escalate issues and risks in a timely manner to the Security Manager and via Project dashboard
  • Contribute to Security Engineering team initiatives
  • SAP GRC 10.x experience is necessary
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SAP Security Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of SAP security analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for SAP security analyst
  • Coordinate, with other team members, the effective operation of BPS IT General Controls related to SAP and other key applications for
  • Execute periodic reviews of SAP role and user based SoD conflicts, and critical access
  • Participate in achieving goals and metrics of Shared Services, BPS User Access & Controls Team, including support of regular dashboard and Steering Committee reporting requirements
  • Proactively support a collaborative team working environment and focus on the design of new and improved processes in order to achieve business objectives and continuously improve performance within the Shared Services, BPS User Access & Controls Team
  • Provide production support to address custom and standard security issues
  • Continually learn new advanced security technologies and access control techniques to provide value to our business by enhancing self-knowledge and capability
  • Provide understanding of SOX framework
  • Recommends and leads improvements to applications and processes in order to decrease issues and maintain quality
  • Adherence to the best practices on SAP security governance team
  • Design Interfaces to other systems using the Technical Integration Quality Standards
Qualifications for SAP security analyst
  • Knowledge of segregation of duties (SOD) concepts, security authorizations, and general access restriction models
  • Support off-hours, weekend hours and rotating shifts as needed for special projects, system upgrades, patching and release processes and go-live activities
  • 2+ years of experience with of the Netweaver products
  • Support and involvement in role testing, role and task assignment user assignments staged go-live activities
  • Bachelor Degree required in IT, Finance, or Accounting
  • Minimum of 3 + years SOX Controls experience
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SAP Security Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a SAP security analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for SAP security analyst
  • Review application security requirements for roles and authorizations and document security designs
  • Map standard SAP Roles to Security Profiles and ensuring role documentation is accurate and up-to-date
  • Work with development teams to design the best security solutions in the SAP systems using custom transactions, authorization objects and/or custom programs as required
  • Coordinate security testing (positive and negative) for security roles integration testing of security access
  • Coordinate security activities for interface testing, user acceptance testing, user training and data conversions
  • Plan, coordinate, and execute operational administration of user provisioning and de-provisioning, password management and other activities
  • Facilitate the agreement and common understanding of issues and their corresponding management action plans including rationale risk acceptance
  • Monitor critical risks in SAP systems and work with risk owners to remediate or mitigate risks.Create and execute SOD analysis reports manually and through background jobs
  • Deep knowledge of GRC 10.1 - EAM, ARA and ARM modules (use, configuration, customizing)
  • Good knowledge of HANA and BObj security concepts is desirable
Qualifications for SAP security analyst
  • SAP certification is plus
  • 3-5 years SAP security experience
  • Experience managing segregation of duties, and mitigating controls
  • Involvement in multiple lifecycle SAP projects as lead security analyst or coordinator
  • Prior accounting and audit experience
  • Prior windows security experience is beneficial but not required
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SAP Security Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of SAP security analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for SAP security analyst
  • Actively participate in on-going strategic and tactical programs to ensure the solution is compliant with internal and external requirements from S&A perspective
  • Provide periodic progress feedback to Security Engineering Manager on S&A Activities, Risks and Issues
  • Should have strong knowledge on SAP security
  • Should have working & testing knowledge of SAP security
  • Investigate user reported access incidents to determine root cause and recommend solution
  • Collaborate with application management services provider to troubleshoot support authorization issues
  • Work with business leads to define and implement user access within the SAP environment
  • Perform technical analysis and identifies areas of potential process improvement
  • Facilitates document requests and information gathering for audit activities
  • Team Lead for Gurgaon based resources, currently on further team member
Qualifications for SAP security analyst
  • This is full-time employment role – not a consultant and must be located onsite at the Reading or Latrobe office
  • US Citizenship or current Green Card status is required for ITAR compliance purposes
  • 4-year degree preferred (management information systems or equivalent)
  • Competent in project management theory, knowledge, skills, tools and techniques
  • Awareness of SAP security concepts
  • Consultative capability
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SAP Security Analyst Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a SAP security analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for SAP security analyst
  • Working with Global Information Systems (GIS) business analysts, project teams, and business users in determining the security requirements for the requests or projects
  • Create and modify Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) roles based on incident and ad-hoc request or project requirements
  • Administration of Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) user’s roles based on requirements on incident and ad-hoc request or project requirements
  • Create and modify roles, groups, and packages at the HANA Database level along with other security activities on HANA Studio or HANA Cockpit
  • Create test IDs and coordinate testing activities of any new/modified role
  • Execute SU25 transaction on identified upgraded/new systems, and work with the Global Information Systems (GIS) business analysts in getting Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) roles updated and migrated to Production
  • Troubleshoot authorization errors, and identify missing authorizations on all Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) systems
  • Interfacing with, and gathering requirements from Business and technical users
  • Updating Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) roles and their owners in the WPASS role owner database
  • Execute Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) role level and user level analysis reports
Qualifications for SAP security analyst
  • Proven organizational skills to handle multiple priorities
  • Minimum of five years progressive SAP Security experience
  • Strong desire to build, improve and maintain a pristine SAP landscape
  • Demonstrated understanding of Segregation of Duties concepts and Sarbanes-Oxley framework
  • Highly responsive with a strong sense of ownership in building and maintaining positive customer relationships
  • Process-oriented with high attention to detail in exercising experience-based judgement to determine appropriate methods and actions

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