SAP Platform Security Leader Operations and Audit

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We seek a highly skilled and experienced professional to assume the Senior Manager of SAP Platform Security Operations and Audit & Compliance role. In this high impact position, you will support all security aspects beneath our SAP Basis Application – including Infrastructure, Operating Systems, Databases, and any horizontal software components shared across multiple applications. Your technical expertise will be crucial in maintaining the integrity of our SAP landscape and supporting the organization's overall security operations – including ensuring audit & compliance requirements and delivering key security projects.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for enhancing the security posture of our organization. You will handle day-to-day design, build, implementation, testing, deployment/release management, and monitoring of security solutions and platforms. You will engage in information security projects that evaluate existing security infrastructure and propose changes as defined by security leadership and architects. Additionally, you will communicate vulnerability results in a manner understood by technical and non-technical business units based on risk tolerance and threat to the business and gain support through influential messaging.

The SAP Platform Security Operations and Audit & Compliance Team oversees, assesses, and manages:

• Security approach driven by business, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
• Security solutions that align with the key principles outlined within P&G's Info Security policies.
• Security structure that imposes the minimum administrative overhead from a sustainability perspective.
• Restrict access authorizations to the user's job requirements and responsibilities.
• Provide expertise, best practices, and guidance on SAP security standards.
• Provide appropriate security monitoring to reduce the risk of any audit & compliance deviations.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the SAP Security Operations & Audit & Compliance Team on an operational level. He/she will deliver support that is consistent, of the highest quality, and complete as it relates to all security aspects beneath our SAP Basis Application – including Infrastructure, Operating Systems, Databases, and any horizontal software components shared across multiple applications.

• Handle day-to-day design, build, implementation, testing, deployment/release management, and monitoring of security solutions and platforms.
• Engage in information security projects that evaluate existing security infrastructure and propose changes as defined by security leadership and architects.
• Communicate vulnerability results in a manner understood by technical and non-technical business units based on risk tolerance and threat to the business.
• Identify, analyze, and respond to malicious behaviors from a variety of sources and create action plans to mitigate future incidents.
• Research new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) in public and closed forums, assessing risk and implementing/validating controls as necessary through the CI/CD pipeline.

Job Qualifications

• Extensive experience (6+ years) in SAP Platform Security, SAP Basis, HANA DB, internal controls, compliance, or a related field, focusing on SAP systems.
• Extensive and broad-based experience and expertise with all stacks of SAP Infrastructure and Application stack with demonstrated understanding of SAP Security and Compliance within a large and diverse enterprise environment or business community.
• Strong understanding of SAP processes, modules, and configurations, including ECC, S/4HANA, BTP, SAP Platform, Basis, Integration, OS, and related technologies.
• Ideally, knowledge of the P&G information security framework and SAP Enterprise Security Control
• Knowledge of IT SAP security tools such as code scanners, GRC tools, or tools for SAP SoD monitoring.
• Relevant certifications such as ITIL, SAP HANATEC, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or equivalent are a plus.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities and multiple tasks incl. reasoning and problem-solving skills (especially in the task force phase).
• Traditional/waterfall and agile project management skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with keen attention to detail.
• Experience in working with regulatory requirements and industry standards (e.g., SOX, GDPR) SAP systems.
• Create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, and encourage improvement and innovation.
• Prior success in roles managing in a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist is preferred.
• Demonstrates breadth of applied IT skills across at least two IT job profiles.
• Applies Integrated Risk Management, IT Operations, IT Project Management, and Enterprise Architecture skills relevant to the work.
• Requires at least two relevant roles with experience managing or influencing people or organizations to achieve significant IT outcomes.
• Demonstrates ability to define strategy and leads the delivery and transformation of business outcomes through IT within major sub-OU services, products, or programs.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.

"At P&G, the hiring journey is personalized every step of the way, thereby ensuring equal opportunities for all, with a strong foundation of Ethics & Corporate Responsibility guiding everything we do.

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