Senior SAP Security Analyst

The Senior SAP Security Analyst is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and governance of SAP security and access controls across the enterprise. This role ensures that user access is appropriately provisioned, compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements, and aligned with business needs. The senior analyst also drives continuous improvement of security processes, provides guidance to junior team members, and partners with stakeholders to manage risk while enabling efficient operations. What You Will Be Doing

• Ensure SAP compliance procedures align with Group-level Information Security policies, PCI and NIST security requirements.
• Utilise proficiency in SAP systems, applications and processes to develop and maintain SAP security architecture and controls.
• Design, create and manage SAP user profiles, roles and authorisations, defining and enforcing standards to ensure effective role-based access control.
• Manage SAP Security using SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) solutions, including Access Control and Process Control.
• Ensure technical debt is addressed through clear roadmaps for corrective action to simplify, standardise and strengthen security.
• Define and recommend actions to mitigate security risks and actively manage them through to resolution.
• Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, training and compliance reporting in line with RS Group Information Security policies.
• Work closely with business, project and SAP teams to implement controls, embed security into governance and delivery, and ensure new technologies are deployed securely and compliantly.
• Drive improvements in team Ways of Working, including processes, standards, documentation and security management practices.
• Support demand management, capacity planning and backlog prioritisation to ensure effective delivery of team objectives.
• Articulate emerging trends to leadership and drive initiatives that improve tooling, security management and ways of working.
• Manage third-party service providers to ensure compliance with security SLAs, KPIs, processes, procedures and standards, and drive remediation where required.

• 5+ years of experience in an SAP Security related role
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an Information Security role
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivated and able to work in an independent manner
• Experience and proficiency in various security-related toolsets and best practices
• Strong understanding of SAP GRC

Desirable:

• College degree or equivalent experience in an IT related function
• Certification in SAP GRC

Pulled from the full job description

• Annual leave
• Employee discount
• Employee assistance programme
• Company pension

• Cycle to work scheme, We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. 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 to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries. We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact. Rewards Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company. Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight - our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values