Senior SAP Grc Analyst

Who are we?
The Sanlam Life and Savings cluster is responsible for Sanlam’s retail business in South Africa. Sanlam Life and Savings provides clients across different market segments (entry-level, middle-income, affluent, professional market and business owners) with a comprehensive range of appropriate and competitive financial solutions. These include traditional life insurance risk and savings products, investment, retirement, health and fiduciary services. Designed to facilitate long-term wealth creation, protection and niche financing, these solutions are engineered around client needs.
We believe in creating and cultivating a positive, energised working environment that gives you every opportunity to achieve success. Sanlam is committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities.
The Finance Services function is responsible for delivering the following services to SLS, as well as other Clusters within Sanlam that make use of SAP S/4 HANA and related finance systems:
The execution of shared financial transactions through the Finance Shared Services Centre. Drive operational excellence and efficiency through finance process and technology optimisation. Delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4HANA and related finance systems. Delivering on the consolidated financial reporting requirements for SLS Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters - Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development. What will you do?
The GRC Senior Analyst role will be responsible for supporting the Head of the Governance risk and controls centre of excellence (GRC CoE) in managing and delivering an efficient financial control and compliance environment for SAP S/4HANA and related finance systems, with a focus on centralisation, standardisation, automation, and optimisation of financial control compliance processes.
The GRC CoE acts as a second line of defence in support of Business Units’ own financial control and compliance environments.
The incumbent will partner with the Head of GRC and Business Unit Heads to promote adherence to agree upon financial control compliance processes. This role will furthermore be to support for the identification and reporting of non-compliance and recommendations on how this can be addressed. What will make you successful in this role?

**The key performance areas of this role include the following**:
GRC Strategy Development for Sanlam
Support the Head of GRC CoE in the development of the GRC strategy for SLS to ensure greater compliance to required standards.
Support various strategic initiatives ensuring greater compliance and awareness in support of realising the GRC strategy.
Support SAP GRC Solution
Contribute to SAP GRC technology and business roadmap to drive efficiencies in management and monitoring of controls.
Drive innovation in governance, risk and compliance processes using SAP GRC and SAP Fiori technologies.
Maintenance and Innovation of SAP Access Control Processes and Technical Design

**Access Request Management (MSMP**: Access Request, Firefighter, SoD Review, User Access Review, Firefighter Log Review, role approval)
Access Risk Analysis (Maintain custom Sanlam ruleset SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, SAP HANA, SAP SuccessFactors)
Emergency Access Management - Firefighter (SAP ABAP, SAP HANA)
Business Role Management
Custom notifications, reminders, escalations
Standard and custom GRC Fiori apps and reports
Maintenance and Innovation of SAP Process Control Processes and Technical Design
Risk and Control master data processes
Maintenance and creation of new automated business rules (CCM)
Manual control performance (MCP)
Tests of effectiveness (ToE)
Standard and custom GRC Fiori apps and reports
Maintenance of all SAP GRC design documentation
Support the SAP Security team in analysis of access risk analysis reports to remediate access risk violations.
Maintenance of Access Control custom ruleset at conceptual and permission/action level
SAP Access Request administration activities.
Deliver on SAP Access Control and Process Control reporting requirements from stakeholders.
Resolve SAP Access Control and SAP Process Control incidents alongside SAP IT function.
Liaise with the IT function for the maintenance and support of the SAP GRC solution.
Maintenance of Access Control custom ruleset at conceptual and permiss