MANAGER, SAP AUTHORIZATION

Job Purpose

To manage and maintain the Delegation of Authority (DoA) across the organization, ensuring alignment between business processes, access controls, and governance policies. The role ensures that operational authorities are designed, assigned, and monitored effectively to support secure, compliant, and efficient business operations.

Key Accountability Areas

Delegation of Authority (DoA) Management

• Support the design, review, and enhancement of Delegation of Authority frameworks in coordination with relevant stakeholders
• Coordinate and follow up on DoA approvals, updates, and implementation to ensure effective governance and accountability
• Serve as the primary point of contact for end-user inquiries related to delegated authorities within the assigned business scope
• Analyze existing and new business processes to define and align appropriate authorization and approval requirements
• Develop, maintain, and update operational authority matrices aligned with approved processes, procedures, and coding structures
• Ensure delegated authorities and access permissions are clearly defined, accurately assigned, and controlled in line with approved delegations

Authorization Governance and Risk Management

• Review and assess risks associated with authorization design, access permissions, and the effectiveness of Delegation of Authority controls
• Implement and monitor control measures to mitigate segregation of duties (SoD) and access-related risks
• Analyze the utilization of granted authorizations and permissions, recommending adjustments or restrictions where necessary
• Prepare and maintain documentation of authorization risk assessments, mitigation actions, and approved risk acceptance decisions in both business and technical terms

Compliance and Reporting

• Act as the designated Role Manager in accordance with alfanar’s GRC policy, ensuring compliance with internal control and governance requirements
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of user access rights, authorizations, and role assignments
• Produce periodic reports on authorization effectiveness, utilization, and compliance for management review
• Support internal and external audit activities by providing required documentation, evidence, and validation of authorization controls

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies