SAP MENA
Lead Senior Legal Counsel – Field Compliance Officer
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
Job overview
Date posted
11/10/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
The role, based in SAP’s Office of Ethics and Compliance (OEC), serves as a Field Compliance Officer supporting MEA South and Southern Europe, responsible for developing and operating SAP Compliance programs across these markets, ensuring adherence to the SAP Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related compliance practices and policies. The mandate centers on applicable bribery and corruption laws, serious fraud, conflicts of interest, and regulatory requirements, with subject-matter leadership in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), GDPR, data privacy, and sanctions. The position provides expert advice on compliance matters to regional leadership; administers local Compliance Committees in line with regional regulatory requirements; drafts policies and delivers compliance training covering avoidance of bribery and corruption, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, doing business with government customers, fraud prevention, and related areas; and exercises compliance oversight on sales activities by working with business units to vet and validate sales, marketing, third-party transactions, and presales opportunities. The role reviews and analyzes due diligence for partners and third parties; reviews sponsorships, donations, and memberships; supports Compliance Investigations and manages Consequence Management; follows up on risk mitigation processes; and tracks and reports compliance issues and KPIs to OEC management. The officer stays substantively current on regional laws and regulations including white-collar crime and criminal law, GDPR, data privacy, and sanctions; collaborates with Field Compliance Officers across the UK, France, Benelux, Southern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; reports to the Regional Compliance Officer EMEA; and may require occasional travel. Location options include SAP offices in Dubai, Casablanca, Riyadh, or Lisbon, with a #LI-Hybrid work model, within an IT business environment at SAP, a leader in ERP, cloud, database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Provide expert compliance advice to SAP entities in MEA South and Southern Europe, ensuring compliance principles inform management decision-making and serving as a trusted advisor to regional leadership.
- Administer, prepare, run, and follow up on local Compliance Committees in accordance with regional regulatory requirements.
- Draft policies and conduct training on compliance topics including avoiding bribery and corruption, handling confidentiality and conflicts of interest, doing business with government customers, fraud prevention, and other relevant areas.
- Deliver compliance oversight on sales activities by vetting and validating sales, marketing, third-party transactions, and presales opportunities with business units.
- Review and analyze due diligence for partners and third parties, and review sponsorships, donations, and memberships.
- Support Compliance Investigations and manage Consequence Management aligned with OEC processes.
- Maintain expert-level knowledge of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and remain up to date on relevant regional laws and regulations including white-collar crime, criminal law, GDPR, data privacy, and sanctions.
- Follow up on risk mitigation processes and track and report compliance issues and KPIs to OEC management on a periodic basis.
- Collaborate with Field Compliance Officers across the UK, France, Benelux, Southern Europe, Middle East, and Africa, and report to the Regional Compliance Officer EMEA.
- Operate within a #LI-Hybrid model from SAP offices (Dubai, Casablanca, Riyadh, or Lisbon) and complete occasional travel as required.
Experience & skills
- Bring 5–7 years of compliance experience with regional focus, ideally within a corporate compliance department and/or a law or audit firm.
- Demonstrate advanced experience with the U.S. FCPA and regional business laws and regulations in compliance, white-collar crime, and criminal law.
- Show experience in public sector and government compliance, including doing business with government customers.
- Be an accredited lawyer or experienced compliance professional (preferably with legal background); SCCE Certified Compliance Professional or ACFE certification highly beneficial.
- Exhibit experience handling compliance investigations and applying consequence management.
- Apply expertise in risk-based decision making and in the detection and prevention of fraud and corruption.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of GDPR and data privacy regulations and ability to stay current on sanctions and regional regulatory changes.
- Possess fluent business and legal English, Arabic, French, and Portuguese (verbal and written).
- Show excellent understanding of the Italian government structure and public procurement processes.
- Offer project management experience and comfort operating in an IT business environment (SAP/ERP/cloud context), with proficiency in common office productivity tools.
- Be capable of navigating complex issues and managing senior leadership interactions in dynamic environments.
- Be willing to undertake occasional travel and work in a hybrid model from designated SAP offices.