Senior Associate, SAP AI & Agent Governance

About the role

KPMG Advisory is seeking a Senior Associate, SAP AI & Agent Governance to join our Advisory Technology Organization. We foster a collaborative, team-driven culture where professionals grow both personally and professionally through world-class training, leading market tools, and a wealth of learning and career development opportunities. If you want to be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, and expand your capabilities in a firm with strong team connection, consider joining us.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and delivery of AI-enabled and agentic business processes across SAP Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, and other enterprise functions.
• Apply SAP functional and business process knowledge to help define AI agent responsibilities, delegated authority, access models, approval thresholds, segregation of duties requirements, and governance controls.
• Assist in the development of governance frameworks for AI agents and other non-human actors, including identity, roles, lifecycle management, monitoring, controls, guardrails, and human oversight requirements.
• Evaluate risks associated with AI-enabled business processes and support the design of practical control frameworks, escalation mechanisms, exception handling, transaction limits, and runtime monitoring capabilities.
• Collaborate with SAP BTP, integration, IAM/IGA, security, cyber, GRC, and AI teams to help establish governed access to SAP applications, workflows, APIs, and enterprise data.
• Participate in client workshops, contribute to engagement delivery, prepare project deliverables, and support KPMG methodologies, accelerators, proposals, thought leadership, and go-to-market initiatives related to Trusted Agents.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum three years of recent experience in SAP functional consulting, business process transformation, SAP S/4HANA, AI-enabled transformation, intelligent automation, security, controls, or related technology programs.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred or minimum of a high school diploma or GED required plus five years of relevant SAP implementation experience.
• Experience in one or more SAP functional areas such as Finance, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Asset Management, or Human Capital Management, including process design, workflow, integrations, and business requirements.
• Experience with AI, intelligent automation, SAP BTP, SAP Build, APIs, copilots, AI agents, integration platforms, or related emerging technologies is preferred.
• Understanding of identity, access management, segregation of duties, delegated authority, privileged access, and governance controls.
• Ability to translate business requirements into practical AI, automation, governance, risk, and control solutions while supporting client engagements and project workstreams.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with business and technology stakeholders.
• Travel could be as high as 80%.
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity.

California Salary Range: $95,855 – $208,265