Information Security jobs in United States, New York, New York

Every challenge and every opportunity an organization faces today demands change. And with change comes risk. As a Risk Technology professional, you will be addressing client issues such as business performance variability, business and process controls transformation, application security integrity, governance, risk, and control (GRC) technology enablement, continuous controls monitoring, and IT risk management. You will belong to an international network of specialists helping our clients transform risk functions and implement technology solutions that support risk management and governance. With rapid growth across the SAP and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) space, we’re looking for people who understand the challenges of risk management and can focus on improving business performance using GRC technologies.

As a member of our Risk Technology national practice, you will belong to a network of professionals helping our clients implement technology solutions to enrich and improve decision making, provide visibility and transparency of risk and compliance to stakeholders, and automate manual processes.

We will support you with career-long training and coaching to develop your skills in risk strategy, risk function design, risk management and performance enhancement.

Your key responsibilities

Leveraging your knowledge of IT environments and industry trends, you will work across competencies, service lines and sectors to develop innovation solutions to build and sustain risk management and governance programs for our clients. You will support EY teams responsible for transforming risk functions and implementing leading practice technology solutions.

Skills and attributes for success

• You will leverage your SAP experience and project management skills, to effectively support client engagement teams and provide technical expertise in the assessment, design, and implementation of controls, security, and IT risk solutions.
• Deliver facts, analyses, and recommendations in an accurate, clear, and concise manner.
• Foster relationships with client personnel at appropriate levels
• Drive high-quality work products on your team within expected timeframes and budget.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree and approximately 2-3 years of related work experience
• Demonstrate an understanding of SAP business processes (e.g., purchase-to-pay, record-to-report, order-to-cash)
• Experience testing controls, sensitive access, and segregation of duties.
• Basic project management and client service skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent teaming skills
• A valid driver’s license in the US and a valid passport required; willingness and ability to travel both domestically and internationally to meet client needs.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Prior experience as a consultant or client-serving professional.
• Industry related certification (e.g., CPA/CA, CISA, RICS)
• Strong understanding of IT industry trends
• Foundational understanding of SAP auditing

Your key responsibilities

You'll likely spend most of your time connecting with clients to design and implement their processes into the SAP ERP through transformation journeys with Application security, GRC Access Control or similar such SaaS offerings. To make that happen, you’ll need a strong team and internal network to leverage our intellectual property and lessons learned. You’ll also need to draw upon your implementation and client experiences to help our clients implement a proficient design and to understand how to effectively manage the organizational change in their environment. We will also look to you to build strong relationships with our clients to help them effectively address their complex issues.

Skills and attributes for success

• Experience in deploying large scale, cross functional, globally distributed and complex SAP transformation projects with in-depth knowledge of Application Security and SAP GRC Access Control solution that supports access management compliance.
• Design, Develop SAP Security solutions across all SAP applications (On-prem/ Cloud/ Saas) in accordance with business requirements and security/ compliance, regulatory standards.
• Leadership experience with effectively managing onshore and offshore teams throughout the project life cycle.
• Participate in SAP audit discussions (Internal & External), questions and help resolve governance, compliance issues.
• Communication across functions (internal and external to EY) to identify and document functional requirements.
• Confidence in your reputation as an authoritative SAP Security and GRC expert by keeping abreast of industry developments, practices, and trends.
• Focus on the importance of coaching and developing teams and colleagues, by taking their ideas and giving them the knowledge, skills, and opportunities, they need to deliver.
• Energy and ambition to identify and manage business development opportunities.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 6+ years of experience in an SAP Security and GRC lead role
• A bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information security, Information management systems, or related field is preferred.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Design, Build, Test and Deploy Application security framework across various SAP applications i.e. SAP S/4, FIORI, ECC, ARIBA, HCM and Success Factors is required.
• SAP HANA DB security is preferred.
• Strong SAP GRC Access Control implementation experience (version 12.0 or other GRC AC technologies) with Integration knowledge of IAM tools (Saviynt, SailPoint, SAP IAG etc..) is required.
• Experience designing process to support review of Segregation of Duties (SOD)s and Critical Actions (CA); temporary emergency management, and user provisioning.
• Working experience of risk framework/ruleset design to comply with Segregation of Duties (SOD)s and Critical Actions (CA) for various business processes.
• An understanding how to assess, define and align SAP application security to the risk and controls framework.
• Experience with ticketing tools like Service Now (SNOW), HP ALM etc.. Is an added advantage.
• Ability to support multiple projects, shifting priorities, and changing environments/ landscapes is required.
• Strong skills in project management, team management, and client service
• Strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
• A willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 80%. A valid driver’s license in the US and a valid passport is required.

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Industry related certification required (e.g., CISA, PMP, CIA, RICS); non-certified hires are required to become certified within 1 year from the date of hire.
• SAP Application Security and GRC AC certification.
• Knowledge about SAC, BTP, AI and RPA is added advantage
• Knowledge about SAP audit processes and regulatory/compliance frameworks like GDPR, JSOX, KSOX etc.