Senior Associate, SAP Business Process Controls & Security

About the role

KPMG Advisory is at the forefront of transformation, offering excellent opportunities for career advancement and expertise development. We foster a collaborative, team-driven culture where adaptability is key. Our professionals benefit from a wealth of learning and development opportunities, world-class training, and leading market tools to support both professional and personal growth.

Responsibilities

• Support SAP business process design and transformation initiatives across Finance, Supply Chain, and other enterprise functions, helping clients define future-state processes, functional requirements, business roles, controls, and transformation roadmaps across SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA.
• Apply SAP functional and business-process knowledge to design secure, simplified, and well-controlled SAP environments by translating business requirements into effective business roles, access models, segregation-of-duties requirements, and embedded controls.
• Assist with SAP S/4HANA transformation workstreams by evaluating business processes, security, and controls to improve efficiency, automate controls, reduce risk, and support clean-core and operational-excellence objectives.
• Participate in workshops and collaborate with business process owners, functional teams, technology, security, risk, and internal audit stakeholders to align business transformation, governance, and control requirements.
• Execute assigned project activities, develop high-quality client deliverables, communicate findings, and help identify practical recommendations that address business-process, security, and control needs.
• Support and provide day-to-day guidance to Associates while contributing to practice development, training, proposals, and go-to-market initiatives.
• 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 ERP, SAP S/4HANA, security, controls, governance, or related SAP 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.
• SAP functional, CISA, CISSP, or related certifications are a plus.
• Experience across SAP business processes such as Finance, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Asset Management, or other enterprise functions.
• Prior experience with SAP ECC and/or SAP S/4HANA, including business process transformation, security, controls, business roles, segregation of duties, SAP GRC, access governance, and risk and compliance capabilities.
• Experience supporting project workstreams within consulting, professional services, or cross-functional project environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, analytical, and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with business and technology stakeholders.
• Ability to travel 50–60% or as needed to support client engagements.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plans.
• Robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health.
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, based on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service.
• Two annual breaks where employees will not be required to use Personal Time Off: one at year-end and another around the July 4th holiday.

Pay

California Salary Range: $95,855 - $208,265. Salary is determined based on relevant factors including applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and market considerations.