SAP Security and Compliance​

Manager of SAP Security and Compliance
Location: (UK Corby or London/ US)

RS Components is seeking a forward-thinking and dynamic Manager of SAP Security and Compliance to join our team on a permanent basis. In this pivotal role, you will oversee the management of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) services across the EMEA and APAC regions, specifically within our SAP estate. This position is central to ensuring adherence to policies, processes, and controls that safeguard license compliance and maintain robust user profile governance. If you are a strategic leader with a passion for driving excellence in SAP security and compliance.

Key responsibilities:

• Application Services Management:
  • Oversee application monitoring, maintenance, and incident resolution with support partners.
  • Ensure compliance with policies, security standards, and processes for application services.
  • Maintain service performance, availability, and lifecycle management while addressing any failures.
  • Manage vendor relationships, ensuring regular reviews and adherence to agreed service levels.
  • Report application service performance, align resources for projects, and ensure disaster recovery plans are integrated into corporate continuity strategies.
     
• Financial and Compliance Oversight:
  • Manage budgets, vendor costs, and compliance for licenses, contracts, and financial controls.
  • Support audits, address actions, and identify cost-saving opportunities through best practices, automation, and innovation.
     
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Interface with technology, project, and service management teams to transition new services effectively.
  • Align service delivery with business needs and drive improvements via continuous service enhancements.
  • Act as a point of contact for technology teams, support partners, and business stakeholders.
     
• SAP GRC SME Specialization:
  • Manage SAP GRC tools and services, including roles, authorizations, and user access requests.
  • Identify process improvements to reduce risks, ensure compliance, and minimize license costs.
  • Implement process controls during project phases and provide expertise for resolving complex incidents.
  • Oversee compliance for Separation of Duties (SOD), privileged access, and license risks.

About You:
The ideal candidate will possess strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, enabling them to effectively partner with teams across the Technology function and other business units. They will excel at building relationships, fostering cross-functional teamwork, and ensuring seamless integration and alignment of efforts to support organizational goals. Their ability to navigate and connect diverse teams will be essential in driving success and delivering value across the business.

What you’ll need:

• Thorough and detailed understanding of SAP GRC activities related to the key applications.
• Excellent understanding of managing user access including Segregation of Duties processes and policies in an SAP environment.
• Managing GRC activities through the SAP GRC module.
• Experience of working with an off / near shore support model, and of managing and collaborating with outsourced third-party suppliers of SAP GRC related services.
• Excellent vendor management capabilities including extensive experience of deploying and managing suppliers within a formal supplier relationship management model. This includes the ability to define and manage suppliers to contractual obligations and SLAs.
• Proven experience of managing internal and external audit activities and driving resulting actions to an appropriate conclusion in a timely manner.
• Experience of dealing with internal / external customers, vendors, suppliers and key stakeholders in a controlled SAP GRC environment.
• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills; able to communicate with people at all levels, internally and externally, and to understand complex scenarios and communicate them to key stakeholder clearly and with confidence.
• A strong understanding or organisation design and operation, and its impact on GRC activities and compliance conflicts.
• Strong verbal, written communication skills.
• Strong decision-making skills especially under high pressure situations such as incidents.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with other specialists and business stakeholders to drive a satisfactory outcome for the business as a whole
• Build and maintain an understanding of the key business functions and the impact of in-scope service to the business operation.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, and the ability to prioritise personal and the team’s workload to meet deadlines within defined SLAs
• Proven ability to work independently, be flexible and to operate under pressure; exhibiting a positive pro-active approach and ‘will do’ attitude;
• Well organised, with excellent attention to detail. Able to take a structured approach to solving problems and applying solutions in a timely manner.
• Experience of translating business and application requirements into effective GRC models and implementing these models in a cross functional environment.
• Excellent knowledge of ITIL incident and problem management
• To have a broad perspective of potential issues encountered when interacting with diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them.

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge of Agile methodology
• Experience of working between cross functions within an International Group of Companies.
• Project manager experience

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:​

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation​
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome​
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause​
•  Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery​
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all. 

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  ​

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.  ​

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  ​

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  ​

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. ​

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.​

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