Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Not Applicable

Specialism

SAP

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Managed Services team will provide you an opportunity to collaborate with a wide array of teams to help our clients implement and operate new capabilities, achieve operational efficiencies, and harness the power of technology.

Our Application Evolution Services team will provide you with the opportunity to help organizations harness the power of their enterprise applications by optimizing the technology while driving transformation and innovation to increase business performance. We assist our clients in capitalizing on technology improvements, implementing new capabilities, and achieving operational efficiencies by managing and maintaining their application ecosystems. We help our clients maximize the value of their SAP investment by managing the support and continuous transformation of their solutions in the areas of sales, finance, supply chain, engineering, manufacturing and human capital.

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 Associate, 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:

Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Job Summary -   

At PwC we relentlessly focus on working with our clients to bring the power of technology and humans together and create simple, yet powerful solutions. We imagine a day when our clients can simply focus on their business knowing that they have a trusted partner for their IT needs. Every day we are motivated and passionate about making our clients’ better. 

Within our Managed Services platform, PwC delivers integrated services and solutions that are grounded in deep industry experience and powered by the talent that you would expect from the PwC brand. The PwC Managed Services platform delivers scalable solutions that add greater value to our client’s enterprise through technology and human-enabled experiences.  Our team of highly-skilled and trained global professionals, combined with the use of the latest advancements in technology and process, allows us to provide effective and efficient outcomes.  With PwC’s Managed Services our client’s are able to focus on accelerating their priorities, including optimizing operations and accelerating outcomes.  PwC brings a consultative first approach to operations, leveraging our deep industry insights combined with world class talent and assets to enable transformational journeys that drive sustained client outcomes. Our clients need flexible access to world class business and technology capabilities that keep pace with today’s dynamic business environment.  

Within our global, Managed Services platform, we provide Application Evolution Services (formerly Application Managed Services), where we focus more so on the evolution of our clients’ applications and cloud portfolio. Our focus is to empower our client’s to navigate and capture the value of their application portfolio while cost-effectively operating and protecting their solutions. We do this so that our clients can focus on what matters most to your business: accelerating growth that is dynamic, efficient and cost-effective.  

As a member of our Application Evolution Services (AES) team, we are looking for candidates who thrive working in a high-paced work environment capable of working on a mix of critical Application Evolution Service offerings and engagement including help desk support, enhancement and optimization work, as well as strategic roadmap and advisory level work.  It will also be key to lend experience and effort in helping win and support customer engagements from not only a technical perspective, but also a relationship perspective.

 

Minimum Degree Required (BQ) *:  BE / B Tech / ME / M Tech / MBA / B.SC / B. Com / BBA

 

Required Field(s) of Study (BQ):  

 

Preferred Field(s) of Study: 

 

Minimum Year(s) of Experience (BQ) *: 6-10 years of experience  

 

Certification(s) Preferred:  

Preferred Knowledge/Skills *:  

 

General skill set:

As a Senior Associate, 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:

Use feedback and reflection to develop self-awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.

Proven track record as an SME in chosen domain.

Ability to come up with Client POC/POV for integrating/increasing adoption of emerging Tech. like Blockchain, AI et al with the product platform they are associated with.

Mentor Junior resources within the team, conduct KSS and lessons learnt.

Flexible to work in stretch opportunities/assignments.

Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.

Ticket Quality and deliverables review.

Status Reporting for the project.

Adherence to SLAs, experience in incident management, change management and problem management.

Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.

Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.

Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.

Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.

Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.

Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Demonstrate leadership capabilities by working with clients directly and leading the engagement.

Work in a team environment that includes client interactions, workstream management, and cross-team collaboration.

Good Team player. Take up cross competency work and contribute to COE activities.

Escalation/Risk management.

Strong Knowledge in:

GRC Security:

Should Know Pre-Installation and Post Installation steps, Syncs, Connectors, Rule Building and MSMP Workflows in GRC.

SPRO configurations for Access control.

Knowledge on MSMP workflow Association with BRF+ Application.

Configured the Decision Table and Function in BRF+.

Designed workflow in MSMP and maintained the Stages and Paths.

Understanding of the Ruleset and Mitigation Controls

Analyze and Configure GRC 10.0 Global Rulesets.

Maintaining Rule Set, Function ID, Risk ID with Risk Owners and generating rules.

Experience and Good Knowledge on SOX Compliance & Audit Activities

Perform SOD Analysis for Roles and Users at Action / Permission level including simulation functionality until the system is clean. 

Create Mitigation control and assign the necessary Approvers / Owners

BW / HANA Security 

Creation of Analysis authorization, worked on RSD1 checking authorization relevant to Info Objects.

Knowledge on authorization level at Info Object, Hierarchy and Key Figures.

Experience in SAP BW & Business Objects security setup including the definition of BW Analysis Authorizations and Reporting level security and Business Objects RLS (Row Level Security)

Worked on System Privileges, Object Privileges and Analytic Privileges etc.

Creating / Deleting Schema in SAP HANA Database. 

Set up security by Info Area, Info-Cube, Info- Object and QUERY.

Developed Custom Authorization Objects for queries developed by the users.

Configured roles and authorization objects to secure reporting users.

Worked on SAP BW Authorization Objects (S_RS_COMP, S_RS_COMP1 and S_RS_AUTH ) to restrict the user to view /change / delete information

Experience in defining HANA security and restricting access to HANA Modeling/DB objects through various privileges and custom roles.

HR Security 

Design, develop and maintain SAP HCM security roles.

Good Knowledge in Structural Authorization

Work with HR business process owners to build SAP authorization assignments and facilitate resolutions on segregation of duties (SOD) conflicts.

Knowledge on HR tables and Authorization Objects.

Hands on Experience with Applications like Success factors, HR Renewal will be an added advantage.

  

Preferred Skills: 

ITIL certification

SAP GRC experience must

Experience in ECC, GRC, BW / HR / BPC / HANA / BOBJ / Security

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

Government Clearance Required?

Job Posting End Date