Internal Audit

INTERNAL AUDIT

Bring SAP access risk
into focus.

SAP Internal Audit helps organizations streamline audit reviews, identify access and compliance risks, and maintain audit-ready reporting across SAP systems.
SAP Internal Audit teams need clear visibility into SAP users, roles, authorizations and access risks to evaluate whether controls are operating effectively.

SimpAudit helps structure SAP access-risk analysis, findings and reporting so audit teams can spend more time on investigation and less time preparing data.

Internal audit team reviewing SAP access risk and audit information
INTERNAL AUDIT SAP Risk Review Access · Controls · Findings
SAP INTERNAL AUDIT

Move from technical access data
to meaningful audit insight.

SAP environments contain large volumes of users, roles, authorizations and transactions. Internal audit teams need a structured way to understand where access may create security, compliance or control risk.

SimpAudit brings relevant risk information together to support analysis, review, prioritization and reporting.

INTERNAL AUDIT FOCUS AREAS

What can internal audit
teams review?

Focus audit attention on the areas where SAP access and authorization risk can have the greatest impact.

01

User Access

Review whether users have appropriate access for their responsibilities and current status.

02

Role & Authorization Risk

Analyze roles and authorizations to identify excessive or potentially inappropriate access.

03

SoD Conflicts

Identify Segregation of Duties conflicts that may create control or compliance exposure.

04

Privileged Access

Review powerful or sensitive access that may require additional monitoring or controls.

05

User Lifecycle

Examine user creation, changes and deactivation as part of access-control reviews.

06

Control Findings

Organize identified findings so teams can investigate, validate and remediate them.

Internal audit professionals conducting an access review
ACCESS & CONTROL REVIEW

Give auditors a clearer
view of SAP access.

Reviewing SAP access manually can require teams to work through large volumes of technical information. A structured analysis approach helps auditors focus on relevant risks and control questions.

  • Review users and assigned access
  • Identify excessive privileges
  • Analyze role-level risks
  • Identify SoD conflicts
  • Review privileged access
  • Prioritize findings for investigation
STRUCTURED AUDIT APPROACH

From SAP access data
to audit findings.

A structured process helps internal audit teams move from information collection to risk evaluation and documented findings.

01

Understand

Gather relevant SAP users, roles, authorizations and access information.

02

Analyze

Identify access risks, SoD conflicts and potentially excessive privileges.

03

Prioritize

Use risk information to focus attention on significant findings.

04

Report

Present findings and supporting information for audit review and management discussion.

RISK PRIORITIZATION

Focus audit effort
where risk matters.

Internal audit teams may identify a large number of access findings during an SAP review. Risk scoring and prioritization can help distinguish higher-risk issues from lower-priority observations.

01 Identify

Access risk

02 Prioritize

Significant findings

03 Investigate

Business exposure

AUDIT REPORTING

Turn findings into
useful audit evidence.

Audit findings need to be understandable to both technical teams and business stakeholders. Structured reporting can help communicate risk, findings and areas requiring remediation.

SimpAudit can support reporting views for internal audit, SAP security, compliance teams and management.

Risk Reports Summarize identified SAP access risks.
SoD Reports Present segregation-of-duties findings.
User Reports Review user access and lifecycle information.
Role Reports Present role-level risks and findings.
SIMPAUDIT FOR INTERNAL AUDIT

Make SAP access-risk
reviews more structured.

Explore how SimpAudit can support internal audit teams with SAP access analysis, risk prioritization and audit reporting.