Who we are:

We are BASF, the largest chemical company in the world, with over 150 years of experience. In Montevideo, we are a Hub made up of more than 1,000 employees who provide services for all BASF companies in the Americas. We offer professional solutions in finance, purchasing, reporting, logistics, technology, human resources, projects, communication, legal matters, environment, safety, health, and quality.

Main Objective:
In this role, you will support our unit “Authorizations” to provide SAP authorization access for SAP systems and related users. We ensure adherence to related guidelines and regulations and are key contact for related access management teams. We work with both SAP standard technologies as well as several add-on products and processes. Following our agile working philosophy, we guarantee the complete lifecycle management for SAP authorization role and access management for projects, business requests and daily operation topics. We work in a global team setup sharing continuously knowledge exchange and striving for efficiency and continuous improvements for our product “Authorizations”.

Main Tasks:

Collaborate with project teams to develop an authorization concept and set up roles in SAP, providing users with appropriate access, take Lead Consultant responsibilitiesdrive the complete lifecycle for SAP authorization topics in the areas of SAP ERP, SAP HR, SAP S4/HANA, SAP HANA and future technologies, including the design of authorization conceptsdrive continuous improvement and quality assurance of the serviceapply diverse certified add-on products to ensure a compliant authorization environmentapply our validated change management and incident/problem management tools  work in a DevOps environment to apply agile tools and methods such as Azure DevOps, Kanban, Scrum, etc.consult on strategic decisions for the business by optimizing methodology, tools guidelines and techniques to develop solutions in a complex environment according to IS strategy and enterprise architecturework in partnership with diverse service providers and key stakeholders as an essential part of the delivery modeldrive and steer quality assurance and documentation of SAP authorization implementation based on service management processes and toolsdrive the continuous service improvement process develop and assure internal guidelines for SAP authorization related topics are metcollaborate with auditors to support all audits run for the authorization and access environment including analysis, reporting and quality improvements on demandcontribute to build an expert network, to collaborate very closely with global DevOps teamstake ownership of team roles and responsibilities, e.g. for agile working methodologies such as Scrumensure continuous skill-up and knowledge transfer within the global teampresent authorization related topics to diverse stakeholders and audiencesupport the product manager in achieving organizational and operational targets and goals

Requirements:

• Education: o  Bachelor degree in relevant Business/IT studies
• Working Experience: 

3-5 years’ experience in SAP ERP 2 years’ experience in IT in the field of setting up SAP authorization content and roles and user management

• Language skills: Advanced level of English (spoken and written).

• Technical skills: 

Very high experience with user authentication and user authorization topicsVery high experience in authorization setup for ERP, S4/HANA, HANA and SAP Fiori.High business consulting and technical consulting skillsGeneral project management experience.Good experience in working agile, Scrum knowledge and JIRA knowledgeHigh experience to steer and collaborate with suppliersBasic SAP security knowledgeBasic SAP ERP and HR module expertise such as SAP Finance, etc.

• Soft skills: 

Very high developed sense of responsibilityHigh innovation-orientationWell-developed proactive characterVery well-developed ability to think analyticallyAn entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to foster a positive and energized cultureA growth mindset with a curiosity to learn and improveGlobal team player with strong interpersonal communication skillsHigh customer orientation and decision-making skills