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About the role
What they do
SAP Security Consultants design and protect access in SAP landscapes. They build authorization concepts, define roles, review permissions, and keep business users productive without opening unnecessary risk. In practice, they turn security rules into working access that fits real processes.
- Design role and authorization structures for business and technical users
- Review critical access, segregation of duties, and audit findings
- Support user provisioning, role cleanup, and emergency access processes
- Align SAP security settings with project, audit, and compliance needs
Typical projects
Companies bring in an SAP security specialist when a system goes live, a landscape is restructured, or an audit exposes weak access control. Common work includes new role concepts for S/4HANA, cleanup after years of custom roles, and support during upgrades, conversions, or mergers. In Germany, this often involves close work with internal IT, compliance, and business process owners.
Core skills
Strong SAP Security Consultants know how to translate business access needs into stable, traceable authorization models. They are comfortable with SAP authorizations, SU24, PFCG, user master data, and common GRC processes. Many also work closely with Basis teams and auditors.
- SAP authorization design and troubleshooting
- Role mapping, composite roles, and profile maintenance
- Segregation of duties analysis and remediation
- SAP GRC, access control, and audit support
- Communication with business, IT, and compliance teams
Tools and systems
The exact stack depends on the landscape, but most SAP security work centers on core administration and governance tools. That can include ECC, S/4HANA, Fiori, SAP GRC, and reporting tools for access analysis. A strong consultant also understands how security behaves across interfaces, custom developments, and connected systems.
When freelancers help
Freelance SAP Security Consultants are a good fit when you need focused expertise for a project, a backlog, or a control issue that cannot wait. They are especially useful when internal teams know the business but need outside experience to make access structures cleaner and safer. For German clients, this also works well when projects need on-site workshops in German and delivery work can continue remotely.
What good looks like
A strong SAP security engineer does more than assign roles. They ask how the business works, spot hidden risk in access design, and leave behind documentation that others can maintain. The best consultants are practical, precise, and able to explain security decisions in simple terms to both IT and business stakeholders.
Meet FRATCH SAP Security Consultants
André Siegmund
IT Consultant SAP® Authorizations RAD/UAM, Basis Administration, SAP® IS-U EMD, Billing Processes
Last position:
IT Consultant SAP® Administration at Lechwerke AG (LEW)
- IT services for administering the SAP® systems NETZ/Sales, BW, Core, and Portal
- Administration of SAP® authorizations and users using central user administration (CUA) in SAP® Solution Manager
- Development and further enhancement of SAP® authorization roles
- Role assignment according to requests
- Creation, modification, and deletion of users
- Incident handling and error analysis (e.g., authorization trace, debugging in test systems)
- Collaboration with the SAP® development team on new implementations and process changes
- Special tasks
- Implementation of Privileged User Management (PUM) 2023–2025 using Security Bridge
- System decommissioning of SAP® Core and migration to S/4HANA
Michael Fuhrmann
SAP-Security & Authorization Consultant
Last position:
DACHSER SE
- Support and consulting in the authorization environment and license optimization
Michael Fuhrmann
SAP-Security & Authorization Consultant
Last position:
DACHSER SE
- Support and consulting in the authorization environment and license optimization
- Support and consulting in the authorization environment and license optimization
Elisabeth Lauer-Seele
SAP Consultant
Last position:
SAP Consultant at Lufthansa Technik
- Clean up SODs
- SAP checks for audits
Elisabeth Lauer-Seele
SAP Consultant
Last position:
SAP Consultant at Lufthansa Technik
- Clean up SODs
- SAP checks for audits
- Clean up SODs
- SAP checks for audits
George Gambourg
SAP Authorization Consultant/ SAP Authorization Consulting (Freelancer/SAP Consultant)
Last position:
SAP Authorization Consultant/ SAP Authorization Consulting (Freelancer/SAP Consultant) at Publicly Listed Pharmaceutical Company
- Consulting on SAP authorizations and governance
- Conducting governance consultations, iteration support and project coordination
- Developing solutions for effective control and monitoring of SAP authorizations
- Creating concepts and recommendations
- Drafting detailed concepts to improve the assignment and management of SAP authorizations
- Providing clear recommendations based on established methods and best practices
- Creating/customizing authorizations for MM including MDG/MDM as well as FI, PP including AIRC Services within SAP Finance
- Reviewing existing structures and processes
- Analyzing and evaluating current SAP authorization structures and processes
- Identifying weaknesses and developing optimization strategies
- Conducting trainings and workshops
- Planning and delivering trainings and workshops for awareness
- Sharing knowledge in SAP authorizations, including role assignment, support during iterations and consulting on role development in the pharmaceutical environment.
George Gambourg
SAP Authorization Consultant/ SAP Authorization Consulting (Freelancer/SAP Consultant)
Last position:
SAP Authorization Consultant/ SAP Authorization Consulting (Freelancer/SAP Consultant) at Publicly Listed Pharmaceutical Company
- Consulting on SAP authorizations and governance
- Conducting governance consultations, iteration support and project coordination
- Developing solutions for effective control and monitoring of SAP authorizations
- Creating concepts and recommendations
- Drafting detailed concepts to improve the assignment and management of SAP authorizations
- Consulting on SAP authorizations and governance
- Conducting governance consultations, iteration support and project coordination
- Developing solutions for effective control and monitoring of SAP authorizations
- Creating concepts and recommendations
- Drafting detailed concepts to improve the assignment and management of SAP authorizations
- Providing clear recommendations based on established methods and best practices
- Creating/customizing authorizations for MM including MDG/MDM as well as FI, PP including AIRC Services within SAP Finance
- Reviewing existing structures and processes
- Analyzing and evaluating current SAP authorization structures and processes
- Identifying weaknesses and developing optimization strategies
- Conducting trainings and workshops
- Planning and delivering trainings and workshops for awareness
- Sharing knowledge in SAP authorizations, including role assignment, support during iterations and consulting on role development in the pharmaceutical environment.
- Providing clear recommendations based on established methods and best practices
- Creating/customizing authorizations for MM including MDG/MDM as well as FI, PP including AIRC Services within SAP Finance
- Reviewing existing structures and processes
- Analyzing and evaluating current SAP authorization structures and processes
- Identifying weaknesses and developing optimization strategies
- Conducting trainings and workshops
- Planning and delivering trainings and workshops for awareness
- Sharing knowledge in SAP authorizations, including role assignment, support during iterations and consulting on role development in the pharmaceutical environment.
Hassan El Aboubi
SAP Authorization Consultant
Last position:
SAP Authorization Consultant at msg/Denios
- Support for the DENIOS S/4HANA greenfield transformation. - Role development based on the organizational model and structure. - Creation of roles based on process and steps in swimlanes. - Derivation of catalogs, spaces, pages and sections from process IDs. - User assignment via the organizational structure. - Authorization administration in the S/4HANA landscape with a Fiori-first approach. - Consulting and development in the S/4HANA greenfield area.
Hassan El Aboubi
SAP Authorization Consultant
Last position:
SAP Authorization Consultant at msg/Denios
- Support for the DENIOS S/4HANA greenfield transformation. - Role development based on the organizational model and structure. - Creation of roles based on process and steps in swimlanes. - Derivation of catalogs, spaces, pages and sections from process IDs. - User assignment via the
- Support for the DENIOS S/4HANA greenfield transformation. - Role development based on the organizational model and structure. - Creation of roles based on process and steps in swimlanes. - Derivation of catalogs, spaces, pages and sections from process IDs. - User assignment via the organizational structure. - Authorization administration in the S/4HANA landscape with a Fiori-first approach. - Consulting and development in the S/4HANA greenfield area.
organizational structure. - Authorization administration in the S/4HANA landscape with a Fiori-first approach. - Consulting and development in the S/4HANA greenfield area.
Tanja Balon
SAP Security Expert
Last position:
SAP Security Expert at Vaillant
- Analysis of the state of SAP systems and optimization of parameters regarding security
- Analysis of authorization requirements and security risks
- SAP security and audit
- User and role management
- Key user support, 2nd and 3rd level support
- Daily SAP basis operations: performance optimization, dump analysis, patches, updates, notes, troubleshooting, RFC, interfaces, connections
- Transport management, job and printer management
Tanja Balon
SAP Security Expert
Last position:
SAP Security Expert at Vaillant
- Analysis of the state of SAP systems and optimization of parameters regarding security
- Analysis of authorization requirements and security risks
- SAP security and audit
- User and role management
- Key user support, 2nd and 3rd level support
- Analysis of the state of SAP systems and optimization of parameters regarding security
- Analysis of authorization requirements and security risks
- SAP security and audit
- User and role management
- Key user support, 2nd and 3rd level support
- Daily SAP basis operations: performance optimization, dump analysis, patches, updates, notes, troubleshooting, RFC, interfaces, connections
- Transport management, job and printer management
- Daily SAP basis operations: performance optimization, dump analysis, patches, updates, notes, troubleshooting, RFC, interfaces, connections
- Transport management, job and printer management
Georg Rudy
SAP Authorization Expert
Last position:
SAP Authorization Expert at Lapp Stuttgart Industrie
Independent project work focused on authorizations with S/4HANA and Fiori for the Korea site.
Rolling out Korea-specific roles to test users as per template.
Providing support during various testing phases.
Assigning roles for UAT and subsequent go-live.
Independent project support for the GTS project (Global Trade System).
Creating function roles and assigning them to individual locations.
Creating business catalogs and Spaces & Pages.
Supporting testers during integration tests.
Preparing for UAT and the planned go-live.
Independent project support for the TM EWM project (Transport Management; Extended Warehouse Management).
Creating function roles and business catalogs in collaboration with the project team.
Developing Spaces & Pages with the project team.
Preparing for the integration test, creating users in the test system, assigning roles.
Supporting the authorization teams with ticket processing.
Georg Rudy
SAP Authorization Expert
Last position:
SAP Authorization Expert at Lapp Stuttgart Industrie
Independent project work focused on authorizations with S/4HANA and Fiori for the Korea site.
Rolling out Korea-specific roles to test users as per template.
Providing support during various testing phases.
Assigning roles for UAT and subsequent go-live.
Independent project support for the GTS project (Global Trade System).
Independent project work focused on authorizations with S/4HANA and Fiori for the Korea site.
Rolling out Korea-specific roles to test users as per template.
Providing support during various testing phases.
Assigning roles for UAT and subsequent go-live.
Independent project support for the GTS project (Global Trade System).
Creating function roles and assigning them to individual locations.
Creating business catalogs and Spaces & Pages.
Supporting testers during integration tests.
Preparing for UAT and the planned go-live.
Independent project support for the TM EWM project (Transport Management; Extended Warehouse Management).
Creating function roles and business catalogs in collaboration with the project team.
Developing Spaces & Pages with the project team.
Preparing for the integration test, creating users in the test system, assigning roles.
Supporting the authorization teams with ticket processing.
Creating function roles and assigning them to individual locations.
Creating business catalogs and Spaces & Pages.
Supporting testers during integration tests.
Preparing for UAT and the planned go-live.
Independent project support for the TM EWM project (Transport Management; Extended Warehouse Management).
Creating function roles and business catalogs in collaboration with the project team.
Developing Spaces & Pages with the project team.
Preparing for the integration test, creating users in the test system, assigning roles.
Supporting the authorization teams with ticket processing.
Marvin Buse
Interne Teilprojektleitung für das Berechtigungswesen
Last position:
Mechanical Engineering
- Project support in processing international authorization requests, coordination with global role owners
- Analysis and handling of authorization requests
- Tracing user activities in HR & FIORI using SAUTHTRACE
- Role creation and user administration on SAP Portal / SAP S/4HANA user and authorization management
- Transport management for changes to objects and roles
- Training new team members in the authorization team
- User management in SAP IPB
- Support for an SAP IDM implementation for ABAP & cloud systems
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SAP Security Consultants statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
26 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
22
Top business areas
Information Technology, Audit, Project Management
Top industries
Manufacturing, Information Technology, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
40%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Need clarity? Check out our simple overview of FRATCH
An SAP Security Consultant designs and maintains secure access in SAP systems. That includes role concepts, authorization checks, user access cleanup, and support for audits or go-live work. The goal is simple: users get the access they need, and the company keeps control of sensitive functions.
Look for solid SAP authorization knowledge, not just general IT security experience. A good candidate should understand PFCG, SU24, role design, segregation of duties, and how SAP security affects daily business processes. Experience with SAP GRC is a strong plus when access governance matters.
No. An SAP Basis Consultant focuses on system operation, transport management, and technical administration, while an SAP Security Consultant focuses on access control and authorization design. The two roles work closely together, but they solve different problems.
A freelancer makes sense when the need is project-based, urgent, or too specific for a generalist team. Typical cases are role redesigns, audit remediation, SAP S/4HANA transitions, or a temporary shortage of in-house security expertise. It is also a good option when you need outside perspective on a difficult access model.
Much of the work can be done remotely, especially role analysis, documentation, and troubleshooting. On-site time is useful for workshops, stakeholder alignment, and complex access discussions with business teams. For German companies, hybrid collaboration is often the most practical setup.
An SAP GRC Consultant usually focuses on governance, risk, and control processes such as access control, risk analysis, and compliance workflows. An SAP Security Consultant may handle those topics too, but also works more directly on role design, authorizations, and technical access issues. In many projects, one person covers both areas.
Ask for examples of role redesign, audit remediation, or access problems they have solved in real SAP landscapes. Good consultants explain why a role structure works, not just how to build it. They should also be able to talk clearly with auditors, business owners, and technical teams without hiding behind jargon.
Not always, but it helps a lot in Germany. Many companies expect clear communication with IT, compliance, and business teams, and some projects need German-language workshops or documentation. A consultant who understands how German enterprises run SAP security reviews can usually join more effectively.
The average hourly rate for SAP Security Consultants in Germany is 118 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 942 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as SAP Security Consultants in Germany, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 40% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as SAP Security Consultants in Germany have 26 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as SAP Security Consultants in Germany are German (100%), English (100%), and French (25%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as SAP Security Consultants in Germany are Manufacturing (100%), Information Technology (88%), and Automotive (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as SAP Security Consultants in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Audit (88%), and Project Management (88%).
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