SAP GRC Expert Consultant

Mr. Zink is an experienced SAP Business Solution Architect for Financials and certified SAP Project Manager with 20 years of broad experience in Financial Accounting and the Governance, Risk and Compliance area. From 1997 until end of 2009 he worked directly for SAP in several R/3 and SAP ERP implementation projects as Solution Consultant, Project Team Lead, Project Manager, Business Solution Architect and SAP GRC Lead Advisor.

As Quality Manager for the SAP IS-OIL Upstream Solution Mr. Zink could gather during a period of 13 months in the USA intensive experience regarding the SAP Software Development Life Cycle.

Mr. Zink worked for SAP as Business Solution Architect in a global R/3 template rollout project, where he was the global point of contact for all FI / CO related topics. Not only in this project he could obtain Expert knowledge in prototyping, localization and solution validation of a customer tailored SAP R/3 prototype system / template.
For SAP Business Consulting he worked for an international project regarding the possibilities to optimize a heterogeneous system landscape.

Due to his broad experience in Financial Accounting Mr. Zink was sent as de-escalation measure on behalf of SAP AG to Mexico and took over as Project Team Lead the Financial Accounting and Leasing Asset Management area. In many international projects Mr. Zink could demonstrate that his key competence does also include team working with partners and to manage various cultural and multinational project team.

Since several years Mr. Zink has focused on the SAP Solutions for Governance, Risk and Compliance implementing the Management of Internal Controls, Process Control and Risk Management functionality for various clients. Since 2005 Mr. Zink took actively part at the SAP internal software validation process for MIC 1.0 & 2.0 and for GRC Process Controls 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 10.1 and GRC Access Controls 10.1.

During the last years Mr. Zink was highly involved with SAP GRC Process Control and SAP GRC Risk Management proof of concepts and implementation projects and acted for multinational companies as SAP GRC Lead Advisor.

At the end of 2009 Olaf Zink founded his own SAP Consulting company 'Amplio First Clarity' and since then provided his SAP GRC expertise to customers in Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain and The Netherlands. Mr. Zink is also co-author of the SAP Press book ‘SAP Governance, Risk and Compliance’.

SAP Consulting Project Management Methodology and advanced knowledge in Service Oriented Architecture completes the profile of Mr. Zink.