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Digital Assurance & Transparency - SAP - Senior Manager

PWC, Albany, NY


Industry/Sector
Not Applicable

Specialism
Assurance

Management Level
Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary
Our Digital Assurance and Transparency practice (DAT) is at the forefront of innovation, supporting both delivery of quality, tech-enabled solutions focused on trust and transparency and value-add growth in business and social issues that are top of mind with our clients. You'll work closely with clients, your Digital Assurance and Transparency team, and our external audit teams to understand the systems and technologies our clients use and how they can mitigate risk. As a Digital Assurance and Transparency professional, you'll be part of an organization with a focus on quality, value, innovation, emerging technologies (e.g. cloud, digital assets), and growth and gain experience across several of our specialized areas of focus throughout your career.

A career with the Tech team in our Digital Assurance and Transparency practice will provide you with the opportunity to assist clients with business transformations leveraging large scale digital solutions such as SAP, Oracle, OneStream, Workday, Identity and Access Management tools and other business applications. You will utilize our innovative solutions to help clients assess and manage risk and controls during their transformation journey. You will collaborate with experienced practitioners across PwC's global network to assess the client's approach for ERP security, business process and IT General Controls, while educating our clients on leading practice recommendations.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

  • Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
  • Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
  • Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
  • Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
  • Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
  • Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
  • Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
  • Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
  • Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
  • Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.


Basic Qualifications

Minimum Degree Required (BQ)

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ)

7 year(s) of SAP controls auditing, consulting and/ or implementing.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Preferred Fields of Study
    Accounting,Accounting & Finance,Accounting & Technology,Business Administration/Management,Computer and Information Science & Accounting,Economics and Finance,Economics,Economics and Finance & Technology,Computer and Information Science,Management Information Systems,Management Information Systems & Accounting
    Preferred Knowledge/Skills
    Demonstrates knowledge of, and/or success in managerial roles involving, designing, and implementing security and controls as it relates to multiple versions of the SAP application product suite (core financial, supply chain, human capital management, and/or industry specific modules). Emphasis on understanding of the following areas:
    - Possessing experience with SAP role design across functional and technical (e.g. - BASIS) domain areas;
    - Possessing experience with SAP GRC design, implementation experience including Access Control and Process Control;
    - Possessing experience with business process risk & control design, implementation across finance, supply chain and human resource business cycles;
    - Identifying key risks and controls, knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley readiness, controls optimization, as well as configuration of controls around security, business process and within the SAP GRC modules;
    - Managing and understanding SDLC for SAP product implementations, and configurations - e.g. security and control, and/or optimizations of business process controls and application security;
    - Having SAP Security, Controls and GRC Access Control experience;
    - Possessing experience leading end to end SAP Security implementations and/or controls integration projects;
    - Leading design, build, test and deploy phases in projects;
    - Possessing experience in leading/managing teams;
    - Possessing experience in leading security/GRC design workshops with client stakeholders;
    - Experience in designing security for HANA, SAP Business Objects, SAP Cloud Analytics
    - Possessing experience in configuring and implementing GRC Access Control Modules - ARA, EAM, ARM, BRM; and,
    - Possessing experience with business process risk & control design. Demonstrates knowledge of, and/or success in identifying and obtaining new service opportunities and taking opportunities through the sales cycle, including:
    - Possessing experience with SAP role design across functional and technical (e.g. - BASIS) domain areas;
    - Possessing experience with SAP GRC design, implementation experience including Access Control and Process Control;
    - Possessing experience with business process risk & control design, implementation across finance, supply chain and human resource business cycles;
    - Identifying key risks and controls, knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley readiness, controls optimization, as well as configuration of controls around security, business process and within the SAP GRC modules;
    - Managing and understanding SDLC for SAP product implementations, and configurations - e.g. security and control, and/or optimizations of business process controls and application security;
    - Having SAP Security, Controls and GRC Access Control experience;
    - Possessing experience leading end to end SAP Security implementations and/or controls integration projects;
    - Leading design, build, test and deploy phases in projects;
    - Possessing experience in leading/managing teams;
    - Possessing experience in leading security/GRC design workshops with client stakeholders;
    - Experience in designing security for HANA, SAP Business Objects, SAP Cloud Analytics
    - Possessing experience in configuring and implementing GRC Access Control Modules - ARA, EAM, ARM, BRM; and,
    - Possessing experience with business process risk & control design.
    - Possessing experience with relevant risk mitigation around contracting, client acceptance and engagement scoping;
    - Defining resource requirements, budgets, and billing and collection;
    - Deliverable review and quality assurance over engagement team support;
    - Identifying and addressing client needs, including developing and sustaining client relationships;
    - Leading teams to establish direction and coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation; and,
    - Having prior success in roles managing in a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist. Demonstrates abilities and success with managing large engagements that involve oversight of and coordination with staff and managers as they perform design of controls, application security, or analytic monitoring emphasizing the following areas:
    - Possessing experience with SAP role design across functional and technical (e.g. - BASIS) domain areas;
    - Possessing experience with SAP GRC design, implementation experience including Access Control and Process Control;
    - Possessing experience with business process risk & control design, implementation across finance, supply chain and human resource business cycles;
    - Identifying key risks and controls, knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley readiness, controls optimization, as well as configuration of controls around security, business process and within the SAP GRC modules;
    - Managing and understanding SDLC for SAP product implementations, and configurations - e.g. security and control, and/or optimizations of business process controls and application security;
    - Having SAP Security, Controls and GRC Access Control experience;
    - Possessing experience leading end to end SAP Security implementations and/or controls integration projects;
    - Leading design, build, test and deploy phases in projects;
    - Possessing experience in leading/managing teams;
    - Possessing experience in leading security/GRC design workshops with client stakeholders;
    - Experience in designing security for HANA, SAP Business Objects, SAP Cloud Analytics
    - Possessing experience in configuring and implementing GRC Access Control Modules - ARA, EAM, ARM, BRM; and,
    - Possessing experience with business process risk & control design.
    - Possessing experience with relevant risk mitigation around contracting, client acceptance and engagement scoping;
    - Defining resource requirements, budgets, and billing and collection;
    - Deliverable review and quality assurance over engagement team support;
    - Identifying and addressing client needs, including developing and sustaining client relationships;
    - Leading teams to establish direction and coach staff, and encourage improvement and innovation; and,
    - Having prior success in roles managing in a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist.
    - Leading client projects, understanding a client's business and technology in order to identify, and pursue additional consulting opportunities;
    - Understanding clients' business, industry and/or technologies and leveraging project management skills including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules;
    - Working directly with systems integrators in developing business requirements and business controls in SAP-related and SAP GRC-related implementations;
    - Promoting and creating a positive environment, monitoring team workloads to meet client deadlines; and,
    - Respecting the work-life quality of team members including providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner and keeping leadership informed of progress.


Travel Requirements
Up to 40%

Job Posting End Date

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The salary range for this position is: $105,400 - $325,000, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance