Senior SAP Security Analyst in Weldon

Senior SAP Security Analyst

The Senior SAP Security Analyst leads the design, implementation, and governance of SAP security and access controls across the enterprise, ensuring user access is appropriately provisioned, compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements, and aligned with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of SAP security and access controls across the enterprise.
• Ensure user access is appropriately provisioned, compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements, and aligned with business needs.
• Drive continuous improvement of security processes, provide guidance to junior team members, and partner with stakeholders to manage risk while enabling efficient operations.
• Ensure SAP compliance procedures align with Group-level Information Security policies, PCI and NIST security requirements.
• Utilise proficiency in SAP systems, applications and processes to develop and maintain SAP security architecture and controls.
• Design, create and manage SAP user profiles, roles and authorisations, defining and enforcing standards to ensure effective role-based access control.
• Manage SAP Security using SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions, including Access Control and Process Control.
• Ensure technical debt is addressed through clear roadmaps for corrective action to simplify, standardise and strengthen security.
• Define and recommend actions to mitigate security risks and actively manage them through to resolution.
• Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, training and compliance reporting in line with RS Group Information Security policies.
• Work closely with business, project and SAP teams to implement controls, embed security into governance and delivery, and ensure new technologies are deployed securely and compliantly.
• Drive improvements in team Ways of Working, including processes, standards, documentation and security management practices.
• Support demand management, capacity planning and backlog prioritisation to ensure effective delivery of team objectives.
• Articulate emerging trends to leadership and drive initiatives that improve tooling, security management and ways of working.
• Manage third‑party service providers to ensure compliance with security SLAs, KPIs, processes, procedures and standards, and drive remediation where required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in an SAP Security related role.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in an Information Security role.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Self‑motivated and able to work in an independent manner.
• Experience and proficiency in various security‑related toolsets and best practices.
• Strong understanding of SAP GRC.

Desirable

• College degree or equivalent experience in an IT related function.
• Certification in SAP GRC.

Benefits

• Financial
• pension/retirement
• life assurance
• salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing
• medical plans
• health screening
• critical illness
• disability insurance
• holiday / paid time off
• employee assistance programme
• discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle
• transportation assistance schemes (e. g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing)
• onsite catering/lunch vouchers
• retail discounts
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