Compliance Auditor

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**COMPANY DESCRIPTION**

As you know, SAP’s vision is to help the world run better and improve people’s lives.

At SAP, we believe in the power of collaboration and empower our employees to perform at their best in an environment that encourages free and open expression of ideas. Here, you work alongside creative thinkers who share your interests, while turning big ideas into reality for our customers. With innovative job training, mentors to help you grow, and the flexibility to balance your work and personal life, you’re able to build your career. It’s no wonder that some of the sharpest minds from around the world are working for a company that is consistently recognized as a global top employer.

**PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES**

The Legal Compliance & Integrity Office (LCIO) is a part of the Global Finance & Administration Board area, and reports to both SAP SE’s Global CFO and the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board. Our mission is to advance SAP’s business goals by promoting a culture of integrity, and by mitigating a defined set of legal risks. Our focus includes compliance with the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), UK Bribery Act, and other global anti-corruption and bribery laws.

The Global Third Party Partner Audit Team as part of the LCIO is responsible for managing audits and compliance assessments of SAP’s business partners. SAP executes audit clauses in the agreement with our partners and engages an independent auditor (for example EY) to perform the audit field work. The Audit Team works closely with EY and the field compliance officers to ensure the audit is conducted as planned, the report is generated and next steps are identified and executed.

**EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS**

The Compliance Auditor will be expected to take the lead on internal audit and investigation work as a result of partner audits in the Americas region.

Primary tasks:

- Review third party red flags identified through partner audits or other sources
- Conduct objective, fair, thorough, unbiased and timely reviews into reported red flags of third party fraud, bribery and corruption
- Coordinate with partner organization or procurement organization to obtain relevant evidence and information
- Conduct interviews with third party stakeholders and/or SAP employees to validate documents and processes to assess overall control environment and potential corruption risks from the third parties
- Identify control weaknesses in third party processes that could result into financial/ accounting frauds and provide recommendations to management to design and implement anti-fraud and corruption internal control effectively, mitigate compliance risks and improve business integrity
- Review and research evidence/documents against established policies and procedures
- Analyze the fact pattern of transactions and synthesize data into a professional report with recommendations
- Work closely with Compliance Managers, Field Compliance Officers, Legal Counsel, and other stakeholders

You observe high standards of ethical and compliance principles such as impartiality, an unbiased attitude, and avoidance of conflicts of interest. You have an extremely high level of discretion and professionalism and are able to gain the trust of our external and internal stakeholders.

You are:

- An energetic person seeking new challenges in an international environment, and you are able to adapt quickly to a dynamic fast-evolving business environment.
- Dedicated to delivering solid results to support further actions by relevant teams.
- Able to work in an environment with a strong executive presence and develop strong business relationships.
- A team player, who works well with colleagues around the globe while learning from them.

You have:

- A strong execution and achievement focus with proven investigation, audit and decision-making skills
- Very strong analytical skills to analyze and assess business processes with conclusions, supported with facts and data
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders

As a result of audit findings and recommendations, you may work on company policies and process changes and liaise with multiple areas to align compliance policies.

The position reports to the Manager, Partner Data & Follow Up and will contribute to a wide array of Global team projects.

**EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES**
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree from business or law school or equivalent work experience
- Very good MS Office and SAP skills
- Excellent skills of using tools in performing data analytics / data recovery
- Hands-on with attention to detail and written documentation
- Ability to do in-depth research and to interpret written guidelines and documents
- Display good interpersonal, influencing, and interviewing skills along with the capability of drafting reports in a clear, concise and complete manner
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