Job Details

SAP Business Security Liaison

Austin, Texas, United States

Corporate Functions

Summary

Posted: May 08, 2025

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 200603192

Home Office: Yes

The SAP Business Governance team is seeking a highly motivated SAP Security Professional that has SAP functional and business process experience. As a Security Liaison you will be responsible for managing and ensuring security in a complex, fast-paced, and innovative SAP landscape. You will play a critical role in protecting Apple’s sensitive information and ensuring compliance across the SAP landscape.

Description

The ideal candidate will have extensive SAP security solutions experience with an emphasis on managing risk, applying industry standards, and best practices. This role requires strong integration and collaboration with IS&T and Business organizations.

The candidate will support, design, and implement effective and compliant Security and IAM (standard & custom) solutions through partner collaboration with a focus on innovation, efficiency, and scalability.

Key responsibilities:

Design and implement SAP Security and provisioning solutions by working closely with business users, functional teams, and technical teams

Review SAP ABAP authorization calls in standard and custom solutions

Engage with key stakeholders across IS&T and business teams, using experience and judgement to lead and define both standard and custom approaches to SAP Security

Collaborate with stakeholders to understand, manage, and mitigate Segregation of Duty conflicts. Collaborate with SAP GRC team on SOD ruleset analysis, risk assessments, and general support

Work with business teams daily to analyze security concerns, troubleshoot, and resolve access issues

Support SAP to SAP and SAP to non-SAP system integrations

Coordinate and manage SAP Security aspects of assigned projects:

Communicate and translate technical/business SAP Security requirements to all stakeholders

Perform and present analysis on a global scale as needed by the project

Create and meet deliverables per project plan based on technical and business requirements

Define and communicate clear goals and expectations with all the stakeholders

Deliver timely solutions for project issues

Adapt to changing technology and apply it to evolving business needs

Support daily user access requests for SAP applications

Provide efficient and effective production support for internal and external partners

Support internal and external audit requests

Develop and implement security and IAM policies and procedures

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS with a minimum of 8 years hands on experience

• 3+ years of direct SAP S/4 experience

• Strong comprehension of SAP Security concepts

• Deep understanding in Identity and Access Management (IAM)

• Understanding of business processes and the ability to discern complex business processes to apply best practice security methodologies

• SAP Functional experience (SD, MM, LE, FICO, and others)

• Ability and flexibility to effectively collaborate across multiple lines of business and geographies

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference for candidates with 1-2 SAP S/4HANA implementations or migrations

• Hands on experience in SAP Ariba Supply Chain solutions

• 1-2 years experience in SAP BTP & Cloud based products and solutions

• Excellent communication and collaborative skills

• Ability to independently self manage a diverse workload in a complex and fast-paced environment

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