SAP GRC Junior Analyst at Sanlam Group

The Finance Shared Services function is responsible for delivering the following services to the Sanlam Life and Savings cluster, as well as other Clusters within Sanlam that make use of SAP S/4 Hana and related finance systems

• The execution of shared financial transactions through the Finance Shared Services Centre.
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency through finance process and technology optimisation.
• Delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4 Hana and related finance systems.
• Delivering on the consolidated financial reporting requirements for Sanlam Life and Savings.
   

What will make you successful in this role?

The SAP GRC Junior Analyst role will be responsible for supporting the Head of SAP GRC in managing and delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4 HANA and related finance systems, with a focus on centralisation, standardisation, automation, and optimisation of financial control compliance processes. The SAP GRC CoE acts as a second line of defence in support of Business Units’ own financial control and compliance environments.

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

The key performance areas of this role include the following:

GRC Strategy Development for Sanlam Life and Savings

• Support the Head of SAP GRC in the development of the GRC strategy for SPF to ensure greater compliance to required standards.
• Support various strategic initiatives ensuring greater compliance and awareness in support of realising the GRC 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.
• 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 and compliance environment through innovation and automation.
   

Support SAP GRC Solution

• Support the management and delivery of financial controls through SAP Access Control 12 and Process Control 12 applications:
• SAP Access Request administration
• Maintenance of role owners
• Role Import in SAP Access Control for any new SAP role - Maintain role master data in GRC
• Firefighter Owner and Controller Maintenance
• Maintenance of the structures in Process Control
• Maintaining control performers in manual control performance plans
• Maintain control owners in manual controls master data
• Scheduling manual control procedures for regular execution
• Maintaining the access risk ruleset in AC (risk / permission level)
• Maintain mitigating controls in AC
• Schedule and monitor automated business rules for all CCM controls
• Maintain automated business rules for CCM Controls
   

Stakeholder Integration

• Support the Head of SAP GRC to operate as liaison between Business Unit management (first line of defence) and key stakeholders that include Internal Audit (3rd line of defence) and External Audit (4th line of defence).
   

Qualifications

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in risk and compliance management, finance, audit or relevant field from a recognised institution.
• SAP certification is an added advantage.
   

Experience And Knowledge

• 2 years of functional experience in SAP technology
• 2 years’ experience in Risk and Compliance processes and controls.
• Functional, basic technical understanding of SAP Access Control, and SAP Process Control is an added advantage
• Functional, basic technical understanding of SAP Fiori is an added advantage
• Functional, basic technical knowledge and understanding of S/4HANA Security is an added advantage