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For a client we are seeking a Senior SAP S/4HANA Authorizations Consultant.

Location:

Gent, Hybrid (60% on-site required)

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Senior SAP S/4HANA Authorizations Consultant to enhance and stabilize our SAP security and access management function during a critical transformation phase. The role focuses on addressing structural capacity gaps, improving governance maturity, and increasing design and testing quality in a high-demand S/4 environment. You will play a key role in reducing audit risk, improving role design quality, and enabling scalable access management aligned with S/4HANA.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Role Design & Quality Improvement
   • Design and refine business roles aligned with S/4HANA best practices.
   • Ensure high-quality authorization baseline early in project phases.
   • Maintain and improve role documentation (Fiori & GUI).
   • Support stabilization of immature S/4 role models requiring ongoing tuning.
2. Governance & Operating Model Implementation
   • Extend and enforce end-to-end access governance and ownership model.
   • Ensure clear ownership for roles, approvals, and access reviews.
   • Define and roll out standard role catalogue and governance framework.
   • Support and extend risk-based and ownership-driven access reviews.
3. Process Standardisation & Efficiency
   • Drive implementation of a single access request channel and harmonized workflow for projects.
   • Simplify and streamline complex, multi-party approval chains.
   • Reduce operational inefficiencies caused by fragmented processes and tooling.
   • Align processes across SAP GUI and Fiori access.
4. Testing, Cutover & Project Support
   • Enforce strict authorization testing under realistic conditions during SIT/UAT.
   • Improve SIT/UAT readiness and test quality.
   • Ensure cutover and hypercare authorizations are prepared in advance.
   • Support projects in reducing late-stage changes and rework cycles.
   • Act as SAP Security SME during go-lives and hypercare phases.
5. Tooling & Automation Enablement
   • Rationalize and align disconnected service management tools.
   • Help to extend and enhance the use of user access and GRC tools.
   • Support introduction of automation in access provisioning and reviews.
   • Improve reporting and monitoring for roles, access, and compliance.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Core Expertise
  • 7+ years of SAP Authorizations / Security experience.
  • Proven experience in SAP S/4HANA authorizations (Fiori + GUI).
  • Strong background in role design & build, SU24 / SU25, PFCG, AGR tables, Fiori catalogues, groups, and spaces/pages.
  • Experience with SoD / SOX controls and audit processes.
• Functional & Governance Skills
  • Experience implementing IAM / access governance models.
  • Strong understanding of access lifecycle, risk-based access reviews, role catalogues, and ownership models.
• Project & Delivery Experience
  • Hands-on involvement in S/4 transformation programs, testing cycles (SIT/UAT) with business roles, cutover, and hypercare support.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with IAM and GRC-tools.
• Familiarity with SuccessFactors integration and HR-driven provisioning.
• Experience working in complex multi-vendor environments.

Profile Requirements:

• Strong communicator able to align Business, IT, and external partners.
• Proven ability to operate in high-pressure delivery environments with peak workloads.
• Proactive, structured, and governance-driven mindset.
• Capable of reducing rework, inefficiencies, and dependency on key individuals.

Key Outcomes Expected:

• Improved authorization design quality and reduced rework.
• Ensured adherence to role design delivery deadlines.
• Stabilized operations during peak project phases.
• Reduced audit risk and remediation effort.
• Scalable access management aligned with S/4HANA growth.