BPE Access Management

In this role of Business Process Expert, you will ensure robust and compliant Finance access management capabilities by owning the end-to-end process design, readiness, and adoption.

Your role

1. Process & Capability Ownership

• Own and evolve complex Finance access management capabilities for Business, Region & Zones and Functions organizations, ensuring alignment with compliance requirements.
• Define and maintain the access management roadmap, focusing on proper access for Finance job positions in all finance domains.
• Establish minimum access management process standards, future access management governance, and procedures.

2. E2E Design & SAP Alignment

• Drive and co-create fit-for-purpose access management processes and embed access management into the Philips Process Framework.
• Ensure proper build-up of single and composite SAP Authorization roles.
• Ensure strong alignment between SAP FICO functionality (ECC and/or S/4HANA), SAP Finance processes, job families and roles, and KPIs and compliance control dashboards.
• Actively contribute to SAP implementations, enhancements, and upgrades with respect to access management for all Finance functions.

3. Deployment, Change & Adoption

• Ensure access management process readiness for deployment, including change management, stakeholder management, and end-user training for key users and Local User Administrators.

4. Performance Management & Governance

• Establish and maintain access management capability performance and adoption reporting, linked to agreed targets.
• Develop dashboards to track access management process health, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Drive controlled changes via the Authorization Change Control Board, ensuring consistency across SAP kernels, documentation, training materials, and work instructions.

5. Continuous Improvement & Ways of Working

• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, Agile and similar methodologies to improve access management efficiency, quality, and user experience.
• Act as a connector across functions, facilitating collaboration and alignment.
• Contribute to capability maturity and long-term scalability of the access management process.

6. Team leadership

• Lead a team of 4 FTEs. Three FTEs form the GRC helpdesk supporting the Finance function on access management matters, and 1 FTE is a Business Process Expert supporting this role.
• Support and guide the team in balancing workload and dividing work among the GRC Helpdesk team members. Manage the 1 FTE Business Process Expert in line with role and responsibilities.
• Drive the development of the team and ensure that each team member has an individual development plan in place. Guide and support training needs.
• Create a succession plan for the team.

What success looks like (4–12 months)

• Clear, adopted access management processes with no SOD conflicts on A level and limited conflicts on B level.
• Transparent access management capability dashboards used by leadership to monitor process risks.

You are the right fit if you have:

• Higher education.
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in Finance, access management, or related domains, combined with process improvement, project, and change management experience.
• Proven hands-on SAP FICO access management experience (ECC and/or S/4HANA) preferred.
• Access management experience in applications other than SAP is a plus.
• Experience with operational access management SOx controls.

How we work together

For office-based teams, this means working in person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips

Philips is a health technology company.

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, you may still be the right candidate for this opportunity at Philips.