Automating internal controls in SAP S/4HANA on premise and in the cloud

The SAP Risk and Assurance Management application helps ensure your organization has the adequate internal controls and documented risks necessary to safeguard financial and nonfinancial data, policies, and processes.

Minimize your risk of misstatements and fraud

With SAP Risk and Assurance Management, you can monitor and assess inconsistencies in operating procedures, policies, and your ability to meet business objectives – all within a strong framework and system.

• Cloud deployment with access to heterogeneous landscapes
• Predefined integration and content for SAP S/4HANA on premise and in the cloud
• Automated and manual controls, control testing, and issue remediation
• Risk assessment based on documented controls and treatments
• Rules-based exceptions and workflows for resolution and mitigation

Key benefits

Lowering the cost of control and risk

Gain control with automation and no infrastructure – reducing errors, enabling direct assessment of risk impact, and accelerating operationalization outcomes.

Improving risk and compliance efficiency

Shift to proactive control with deep automation and integrated risk assessment by integrating with the SAP Signavio Process Manager solution.

Managing achievement of objectives

Define and link controls to processes, regulations, risks, and organizational structures to address deviations, vulnerabilities, and impacts on business objectives.

Features

Centralized control and risk definition

• Manage controls documentation and risks in a single centralized location along with their context
• Benefit from control automation and adequacy covering the data scope, not just samples
• Support issue remediation with workflows to assess the impact of change on business objectives

Configurable, automated procedures

• Respect holiday calendars, fiscal periods, and low-use times when scheduling automated procedure runs
• Configure automated procedure business parameters by business users, not IT
• Run automated procedures against multiple target systems or business cases from the same control