Cybersecurity & Compliance Advisor

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THE ROLE

We are looking for a highly motivated and customer-focused team member to join the SAP Asia Pacific Cybersecurity and Compliance Advisory (CSCA) team as a Cybersecurity and Compliance Advisor. You will need to be comfortable working collaboratively alongside our ANZ CSCA leadership, building alliances across SAP, taking ownership as a subject matter expert and managing a dynamic learning curve in an innovative sales and delivery environment.

We will provide a supportive work environment where you can work closely with fellow experts in the team to learn, discuss issues, and innovate. Creativity is essential to this role, and you will have flexibility to try out new ideas and approaches.

The objective of the Asia Pacific Cybersecurity and Compliance Advisory team is to drive strategy and planning jointly with our customers across security, privacy, and compliance topics including agentic AI based on their business strategy. We aim to ensure our customers are happy to select, adopt, consume and renew SAP cloud solutions. We support the execution of Go-To-Market activities, and act as a trusted advisor to our customers and the SAP business, complemented by a focus on thought leadership and consolidation of expertise across the broad SAP Solution Portfolio and 3rd party solutions.

Core to your role will be a passion for learning and self-development, and the desire to embrace mentorship opportunities to mature your experience. You will have well-developed communication skills, customer-facing experience, an innovative mindset with keen interest in exploring AI-driven ways to improve team and customer efficiencies, and a willingness to develop your knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

Security, privacy, and compliance is of paramount importance to our customers when investing in agentic AI capabilities and business applications in the Cloud. You will have a unique opportunity to learn from highly experienced professionals and be at the forefront of innovation in a strategic topic area of customer and market significance whilst also leveraging agentic AI to scale support.

The successful applicant will support sales and customer engagement teams, working to build trust with customers and helping them with their security, privacy, and compliance needs. The following are the key tasks required of this role:

1. Serve as an advisor to key customer stakeholders in Australia and New Zealand on security, privacy, and compliance topics, establishing trust-based relationships and solving issues through active engagement and collaboration

2. Lead the development of innovative SAP field-enablement capabilities to amplify and support the cybersecurity topic within the SAP ecosystem, developing and extending trusted relationships across internal and external stakeholder groups

3. Support customer discussions, presentations, and workshops on SAP’s security, privacy, and compliance standards for both cloud and hybrid solutions including AI

4. Support responses to customer and partner questions, questionnaires, and risk assessments on cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance topics including AI

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Ideally you will have a background in, and knowledge of, the SAP product suite, together with demonstrated experience in a customer-facing role. Essential to the role will be:

· Well-developed customer engagement and business communication skills, with a track record in delivering valuable outcomes in a collaborative way which builds and sustains trust

· Ability to bring creativity and structure to solve complex problems, being comfortable taking leadership in bringing diverse stakeholders together

· Strong desire and aptitude to grow into new fields of expertise and leadership, specifically within the technical domains of cybersecurity and AI

· Relevant professional certification preferred.

WORK EXPERIENCE

· 10+ years in cyber security or related technical and compliance domains especially working with or in Public Sector and Regulated Industry

· Broad knowledge of SAP strategy and solutions across the portfolio preferred

· Knowledge of SAP Cloud security and compliance including agentic AI preferred

· Experienced and comfortable communicating with customers and external stakeholders

· Experience with cyber security consulting or audit including regulatory compliance preferred

· Experience with AI compliance preferred

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Requisition ID: 456166 | Work Area: Information Technology | Expected Travel: 0 - 30% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid