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One thing to know: Sarah Chen's onboarding includes the AP Invoice Approver role. I'm running a SoD check before provisioning. Will flag if anything looks risky.
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Standard role bundle for AP Manager · 3 systems · SoD check in progress
Heads up. Sarah's standard AP Manager bundle would give her two Fusion roles that combined create a Segregation of Duties violation: AP Invoice Approver + Vendor Master Edit.
Together, those two roles let one person create a fake vendor and approve invoices to that vendor — a textbook fraud risk and an ITGC red flag in any audit.
I have not committed her access yet. Want me to walk you through the specific risk and recommended remediation?
Why this matters in plain English:
A single person with both of these roles can:
This is the canonical fictitious-vendor fraud pattern. SOX 404 and your external auditors will flag any user with this combination — and historically it has cost mid-market companies $1.4M–$5M per incident when it goes undetected.
My recommendation: remove Vendor Master Edit from Sarah's bundle. Sarah's actual job — approving AP invoices — does not require vendor master maintenance. Your existing Vendor Master team handles that, and removing the edit right preserves the principle of least privilege without slowing her down.
If you do need her to occasionally create vendors (for example, for emergency expense vendors), the dual-approval option is the cleaner long-term policy — it preserves the segregation while not bottlenecking her.
Either choice resolves the conflict, generates audit evidence automatically, and lets Sarah start clean on May 15.
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