Manager, SAP Business Controls Manager

DELOITTE LLP; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Manager for their Controls Advisory team in London. The role involves overseeing the design and implementation of SAP business process controls to ensure compliance with SOX and other regulations. Candidates should have extensive experience in SAP controls and strong analytical skills. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility in balancing career and home life.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in SAP-enabled business process control design and implementation.
• Experience leading SAP implementations to meet SOX compliance requirements.
• Proficiency in SAP platforms with knowledge of relevant operational processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead SAP business process control design and implementation.
• Support clients in assessing SAP-enabled control environments.
• Conduct walkthroughs and risk/control assessments with stakeholders.

Skills

SAP-enabled business process control design

SOX compliance

Analytical skills

Project management

Communication skills

Education

Relevant degree or certifications (CISA, CIA)

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

GRC products

Job description

Overview

Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Connect to your Industry

The Controls Advisory team supports those accountable for managing organisations technology risks and compliance requirements through driving efficiency, effectiveness, and modernisation of their control environment to achieve better business outcomes. We focus on increasing our client's confidence in their compliance and control whilst reducing cost and effort. Our team works cross industry helping senior client leaders with some of their most important and reputationally impactful challenges.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more. What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Are you looking for an opportunity to work with a variety of SAP-enabled business process control projects across multiple industries?

As a Manager in our Control advisory teams, you will help clients design, implement, and sustain effective SAP business process controls to meet compliance requirements such as SOX, internal policies, and industry regulations. You will have extensive experience with SAP business process controls, risk and control frameworks, and compliance processes, helping clients optimise control design, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen their control environments. You will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

• Lead and deliver SAP business process control design and implementation across key process areas such as Order to Cash (OTC), Procure to Pay (PTP), and Record to Report (RTR).
• Support clients in assessing current SAP-enabled control environments, identifying gaps, and recommending enhancements to meet SOX and other compliance requirements.
• Design and implement automated, configurable, and IT dependent manual controls within SAP to mitigate key financial reporting risks.
• Conduct walkthroughs and risk/control assessments with finance, audit, and IT stakeholders to ensure controls address regulatory and business needs.
• Oversee the configuration, testing, and deployment of business process controls, working closely with process owners and SAP functional teams.
• Develop and execute control testing strategies to validate operational effectiveness and compliance with SOX.
• Provide guidance on control documentation, evidence retention, and remediation of deficiencies.
• Assist clients in enhancing control monitoring capabilities, including the use of SAP reporting and analytics tools.
• Coordinate with internal and external audit teams to support audit procedures and respond to control-related inquiries.
• Lead small project teams, manage work plans, and monitor progress against timelines and deliverables.
• Share knowledge and train client teams on SAP business process control design, implementation, and maintenance best practices.
• Support leadership in market activities including preparing GTM materials, responding to proposals and bid activities.
• Contribution to a strong client relationship through interactions with client personnel, ensuring quality in delivering of client service.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

You work collaboratively within diverse teams. Someone who connects with team members and shares information and ideas within the team. You always treat others with respect, clarifying expectations and confidently contributing to team discussions.

You employ critical thinking to support solving business problems. You analyse problems objectively by considering facts, relevant professional standards or research, data and differing perspectives to support solutioning. You understand the importance of technology on our stakeholders\' operations for the areas we collaborate with the.

Respects the needs of colleagues and builds cooperative relationships. You embrace diversity across teams, and respects and values contributions of those from diverse backgrounds fostering a team environment.

Specifically, candidates should possess the following attributes:

• Extensive experience in SAP-enabled business process control design and implementation across core process areas (e.g., Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report or equivalent).
• Proven experience leading SAP business process control implementations to meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance requirements, including risk identification, control design, and testing.
• Experience integrating automated and configurable SAP controls with manual business process controls to create a comprehensive control environment.
• Proficiency in SAP platforms such as ECC and S/4HANA, with knowledge of relevant modules supporting financial and operational processes.
• Deep knowledge of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) regulatory requirements and their impact on the design, documentation, and operation of SAP business process controls.
• Working knowledge of GRC products including SAP Process Controls, Access Controls Analytics and Continuous Controls monitoring tools.
• Experience applying automation and analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of control execution and monitoring.
• Understanding of control monitoring tools, reporting solutions, and SAP standard reporting capabilities.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and lead project teams effectively.
• Ability to clearly articulate control design decisions and principles to stakeholders throughout a project lifecycle.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English, including experience preparing clear control documentation.
• Ability to clearly communicate engagement issues, risks, and findings to senior management and client personnel.

Assets

• SAP S/4 HANA Financials or relevant SAP functional module or equivalent certifications (e.g., FI, MM, SD).
• CISA, CIA or other relevant, or equivalent certifications.

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Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your Immediate Family Members are not permitted to hold certain financial interests with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

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We have a great culture, and the number of opportunities here mean you can develop as an individual in the direction that suits you best.

Our hybrid working policy

You\'ll be based in UK Wide with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That\'s why we\'ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role.