SAP Security Analyst & SAP Junior Security Analyst

Role Responsibilities

Whether you are beginning your career as a Junior Security Analyst or bringing established expertise as an experienced SAP Security Analyst, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in ERP system security.

Join a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence where your contributions help strengthen secure operations and support ongoing transformation, while offering strong opportunities for professional growth.

We are seeking detail-oriented professionals with a keen eye for accuracy and a passion for delivering high-quality client service. The ideal candidates thrive in an analytical environment, bring a proactive and positive approach, and excel at supporting dynamic teams in a fast-paced, evolving landscape.


Role & Responsibilities:

• SAP Security Analyst 
  Reporting to the 1GX Senior Security Analyst, this role is a trusted security expert supporting 1GX/ERA production and non production environments.
  You will lead complex security controls across GRC, ERA, HCM/Payroll, Finance, LMS, and SCM platforms. Acting as a strategic advisor, you translate business needs into robust security requirements and solutions. You will define, interpret, and evolve security policies, standards, and access management practices. You will play a key role in Security Threat & Risk Assessments (STRA) throughout system lifecycles.
  you will collaborate closely with IT, security teams, system integrators, and service providers. This position resolves escalated access and security issues while safeguarding critical enterprise data. This position also engages with diverse stakeholders and contributes to major initiatives, including ERA service-provider selection.
  
  
• SAP Junior Security Analyst 
  Reporting to the 1GX Senior Security Analyst, in this role you will support the day to day security operations across 1GX and ERA environments. You’ll help administer access, monitor risks, and support audits, testing, and ongoing system maintenance. You will apply security, GRC, and access management processes while analyzing issues and escalating risks as needed. You will collaborate with IT, ADS, and GOA Security teams to resolve access needs for hires, transfers, and terminations. This position uses AI enabled tools to analyze and resolve security and GRC issues in production systems. This position engages with diverse stakeholders, system integrators, and service providers to keep operations running smoothly.
  This position provides informed input on escalated issues and support ERA initiatives, including RFP and vendor evaluation.

 

* Please note that these positions require experience in ERP system security; this is distinct from general cybersecurity experience.

Role Responsibilities Continued

To be successful in these positions you will demonstrate:

• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and shifting priorities.
• Strong leadership skills and experience working with diverse stakeholder groups.
• Ability to work in a highly complex and ambiguous environment 
• Proactive problem solving, systems thinking, critical thinking, negotiation skills.
• Verbal and written facilitation skills.
• Energetic approach in seeing tasks through to completion.
• Delivery of quality services with positive business results.
• Ability to understand and adopt new features related to Artificial Intelligence integration within systems.

Please click on this link to view the job description for the SAP Security Analyst position.
Please click on this link to view the job description for the SAP Junior Security Analyst position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Some of the competencies critical for this position are:

• Agility: you will work in a fast paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities. Identifies alternative approaches and anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals. and support others to do the same. 
• Drive for Results: you will have the ability to quickly understand an issue based on and present knowledge and experience and follows through until the issue is resolved. 
• Develop Networks: you will seek out input from a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to solve complex problems and provide the best solutions.
• Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and achieving them.
• Creative Problem Solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
• Build Collaborative Environments: fostering collaboration across functional areas, proactively resolving conflicts, promoting innovative thinking on projects, removing obstacles to progress, facilitating seamless communication and collaboration, pre-emptively addressing, and mitigating conflicts, and ensuring due recognition for talented individuals.

Qualifications

Required:

1. SAP Security Analyst:

• • University graduation in a related field such as Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science.
  • Minimum of 2 years of progressively responsible related experience in:
    • User management and access provisioning, user risk monitoring, role development in the SAP system.
    • Role Based user Security, using SAP Governance, Risk & Controls (GRC).
    • User Security using Documentum or other Content Management systems.
    • User security in other systems such as Opentext, PeopleSoft.

2. SAP Junior Security Analyst:

• • University graduation in a related field as Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science.
  • No experience required. 

 

** Please note that these positions require experience in ERP system security; this is distinct from general cybersecurity experience.

Equivalencies: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or 
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

 

Assets for both positions: 

• Strong computer knowledge, including Java, Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI), Documentum.
• Experience working with regulations and policies related to records management.
• Experience working with reporting tools such as Documentum Query Language (DQL), Delilah for ECM Documentum, SAP QM 4 reporting, SuccessFactors reporting, GRC Reporting tools or similar.
• Experience in a variety of MS office software (Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, MS Project, etc.)
• Experience with ERP applications and interaction between various modules and components of applications (e.g., HR, SCM, Finance).
• Experience in project planning and management methodologies and best practices.
• Experience in resource management, risk analysis, controls, change and issues management, and progress monitoring and reporting.
• Experience in research, analysis, and interpretation e.g., research issue related to user data protection, or risk assessment and using data analysis tools and techniques to interpret the data and translate into user friendly training.
• Adaptable, forward-thinker, with an eagerness to learn and leverage Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies to drive operational efficiency.

*Applications will be evaluated, and candidates will be considered for the position/classification, most closely aligned with their skills, qualifications, and relevant experience.
Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Term of Employment: Up to two (2) permanent full-time positions

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week/ Monday to Friday

Location: Edmonton / Remote across Alberta

These positions are eligible for remote work. You must reside in Alberta to work remotely.

Preference will be given to candidates located in the Greater Edmonton Area. Individuals in this region will be required to work on-site.

Final candidates may be required to undergo security screening.

This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

Note:
Applicants are advised to provide a cover letter summarizing information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

Additional Information:
In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. As well, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time, or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 – June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.