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Anand Kumar Makloor

Fort Lauderdale,FL

Summary

Experienced in SAP Security, Fiori Authorization, and GRC with 13+ years of experience. Actively involved in implementing and supporting SAP R/3 Security. Expertise in various SAP products including HANA, ECC, BI, EP, SRM, CRM, APO, Solman, and HR. Consistently deliver project progress assessments and status reports highlighting risks and presenting proactive risk reduction plans. Extensive experience in requirement gathering, design, development, and maintenance of SAP applications security. Skills include SAP Fiori and BTP Security, SAP User and role administration, SAC User access, resolving access issues in IBP and CPI-DS. Support for GRC 5.3 (RAR & CUP) with hands-on experience in GRC 10.1 and GRC 12.0 ARA, ARM & EAM. Excellent communication skills, strong interpersonal abilities, self-motivation, and quick learning aptitude. Thrive as a valuable team player. Implementation skills in GRC 10.0/10.1/12.0 (ARA, ARM & EAM) with customization of SOD Rule-set. Expertise in SOX Compliance and Internal Audit controls. Experience in SAP S/4 HANA Security with a focus on user creation at the HANA DB level.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

SAP Security Consultant

Citrix
07.2023 - Current
  • Expertise working in role modification using the SAP GRC BRM (Business Role Management)
  • Mapping respective FF Owners, FF Controllers to all FF IDs
  • Good experience working in CUA (Central user administration)
  • Daily SOD monitoring & Fire Fighter log review monitoring
  • Validating the SODs at user level and role level
  • Working experience in UAR (User access review)
  • Like roles having active role owner and alternate approver & making sure the sensitivity value is not blank anymore (making sure marked with either of these values – ‘Normal’, ‘Restricted’, ‘Confidential’, ‘Classified’)
  • Expertise in Role Management
  • Role modification and moving the changes to production using Charm process
  • Presenting the changes (Security TRs) in Change management meeting
  • Validating the TRs once moved to production
  • Having good experience in SAP Security Audit Process
  • SAP User Licensing review (SLAW2, USMM), FF Log review, User Terminations, SOD Daily report
  • Good experience in reviewing Security Parameters – User Logon Parameters and Identify the Audit controls gaps and providing actions and working with Auditors to provide evidences
  • Analyzing the SLG1 error logs & Tracing (ST01/ STAUTHTRACE /ST05)
  • Expertise in configuring and maintaining the user provisioning within SAP GRC Access Control as per security and compliance policies
  • Working experience in SAP CC (Convergent Charging) & Vertex
  • Working on going SAP support ticket using Service now & Jira
  • Engaging with client meeting for weekly reports
  • Documenting SAP Security roles and workflow process
  • Created monitor IDs, function IDs, Risk ID & Mitigation ID
  • Running Risk Analyzer checking role/user level violation check using modeling Analysis, SOD risks, Sensitive Authorization risks, Excessive Access risks, and Sensitive Roles and Profiles risks
  • Working on the removal of risks based on control panel owners or usage
  • Partnering with business units and Internal Audit to ensure proper separation of duties among roles

SAP Security/Fiori/GRC Consultant

Blue Triton Brands
06.2022 - 06.2023
  • Expertise in working in SAP S/4 Hana Fiori Security
  • Troubleshooting access issues in SAP Fiori
  • Creating Catalogs, groups, Space and Pages as per the business requirement
  • Designing & building the roles for Fiori Apps by adding Catalogs & Groups into the role in SAP S/4 Hana Fiori
  • Trouble shooting and identifying the missing OData Services and backend authorization issue in /IWFND/ERROR_LOG
  • Working with business user to identify the issues with Fiori apps and resolving the auth issues immediately
  • Having working experience in HANA DB Security
  • Having experience in working in SAP BTP Cockpit
  • Providing access to users in Global & Sub accounts
  • Cloud Foundry providing user access to spaces and Org members & also handled CPI -DS (Middle ware for SAP IBP & SAP HANA system) user access issues
  • Good knowledge on Entitlements and entity assignments in BTP Cockpit
  • Trust setup with SAP IAS (Identity Provider) for SAP BTP Application users with SAML and Open ID Connect
  • SAP CIS (IAS) – Users and Authorization
  • Users and groups management in IAS
  • IPS (Identity provisioning)
  • Integrate systems using IPS source and Target systems
  • Also, handled the IBP (Integrated Business Planning) access issues
  • Providing user access (Creating & assigning Business roles to users)
  • Involving in meetings and understanding the requirements from business and providing solutions
  • Expertise in SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud) user provisioning and providing access to user
  • User provisioning through teams
  • Also worked on SAP BODS
  • Providing access to users
  • Setting up S user access in SMP (Service market place) & technical user set up in SMP
  • Working on the Role Enhancement in different system like SAP S/4 Hana, BW, CRM & GRC
  • Mandate authority check for custom transactions at program level and make relevant changes in SU24 & moving role changes to other system using charm
  • Working with Business analyst or process owner for understanding of requirement as per business needs
  • Hands on experience in using Service Market Place updating SSO user credentials & SNOTE search for corrections & Security enchantments provided by SAP
  • Worked with team leads to develop security work plans and go live cutover plan before go live
  • Experienced with creating and working on Production support ticket using Service now
  • Delivered SAP Security and GRC training, user support and knowledge transfer at end of project and followed up to verify successful implementation

SAP Security Consultant

Cognizant
08.2020 - 04.2022
  • SAP Security support
  • Supporting the different SAP systems like ECC, CRM, APO, GTS, SNC, Sol man 7.2, SRM & BW
  • Having good experience in Role designing and development of Security roles
  • Also, handled upgrade projects like APO system
  • Running SU25 Steps & extracting the upgrade effected roles & t codes
  • Checking the SAP Security notes as part of upgrade
  • Worked with team leads to develop security work plans and go live cutover plan
  • Having good experience in roll out projects
  • Coordinating with business process owners/BA for any Security ECR (Enhancement request change) for requirement gathering and helping to build the FS (Functional spec)
  • User Access Provisioning Management Modified existing parent and derived roles based on new business requirements SAP HR (HCM) user data maintenance
  • Handling the weekly & Quarterly releases moving the role changes to production through TR by using the Sol man Charm & Rev-Trac
  • Also having experience in SOX controls (SOD Scan reports, Mitigation Control, T000…) and Audit Controls
  • Strong knowledge on Fiori Apps access design & trouble-shoot

SAP Security & GRC Consultant

India Medtronic Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 08.2020
  • SAP Security support
  • Supporting the different SAP systems like ECC, CRM, APO, GTS, SNC, Sol man 7.2, SRM & BW
  • Designed and built security roles in SAP HANA database via Hana Studio for connections to SAP Cloud Platform leveraging Hana cloud connector that leverages SAP HANA for information repository
  • Having good experience in Role designing and development of Security roles
  • Also worked on different Portal system like ME, MDM, & SRM Portals
  • Designed and built security roles and authorizations for OTC (SD, MM, FI) and PTP (MM, FI) end to end business process S/4 HANA security transactions and authorizations for simplification and optimization
  • Engaged with delivery leads in identifying newly delivered S/4 HANA functionalities, transactions, security authorizations and worked with developers to secure development of custom programs and authorizations to be used in security roles
  • Also, handled upgrade projects like BW, Solman 7.1 to 7.2 & GTS systems
  • Running SU25 Steps & extracting the upgrade effected roles & t codes
  • Having good experience in roll out projects
  • Coordinating with business process owners for any Security ECR (Enhancement request change) for requirement gathering and helping to build the FS (Functional spec)
  • Handling the weekly & Quarterly releases moving the role changes to production through TR by using the Sol man Charm
  • Uploading the New Derived & Single roles into GRC and activating user provisioning
  • Created New Solman 7.2 roles for New Fiori Launchpad & Phase cycles access restriction & Project analysis in Solman
  • Executing retrofit process in Solman for any Weekly/break fix changes
  • Involved in SOX & Audit controls
  • Like User termination, Cutover Id’s, T000 – Client open/Lock & SOD Scan report and also Security baseline controls like Standard Delivered SAP Users, Critical profiles, IT Sensitive access, FF Provisioning
  • Maintaining OSS id & password in SMP
  • Providing developer Access key & Object registration key in SMP
  • Maintaining non-dialog UID’s passwords in Cyber ark
  • Worked on GRC 10 ARM requests
  • Validating & provisioning the requests at different stages
  • And troubleshooting the issues in GRC like running the Synch jobs & PSS notification issues caused due to background job failure
  • And worked on GRC EAM, maintaining the FF ID, FF Owners & FF controllers
  • Creating and Maintaining GRC Rule set, Function Id and Risk ID
  • Generating SOD rules
  • Tracing BW issues using RSECADMIN
  • Having experience in working on Service Now (Ticketing Tool)
  • Having experience in Rev-Trac for moving the TR changes to production
  • Having experience in SAP FIORI Authorization & worked on role mapping in GRC 12.0 for Fiori system

SAP Security & GRC Consultant

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) / JK Techno Soft Ltd
07.2014 - 07.2015
  • Company Overview: Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), subsidiary of Unilever, is a fastmoving consumer products (FMCG) company
  • It offers foods, beverages, home care, and personal care products
  • Part of GRC team for rollout of GRC 10 ARM (Access request Management) from GRC CUP 5.3
  • Having knowledge on SPRO settings
  • Maintaining the configuration parameters as per the business needs & provision settings
  • Configuring the MSMP (Multi-Stage Multi-path)
  • Maintaining the MSMP workflow
  • Maintain rules: rules kinds & types
  • Rules kinds like initiator & Agent rules
  • Creating BRF plus Flat rule
  • Verifying default configuration parameters
  • Configuring number ranges for provisioning request
  • Maintaining default roles as per Business requirement
  • Maintaining connectors for ARM Scenarios
  • Maintaining the End User Personalization & Provisioning settings
  • Synchronization jobs repository object synch (Full synch & Incremental synch)
  • Scheduling background jobs for synch jobs
  • Ongoing support for ARM & ARA
  • Applying MC (Mitigation control) through mass upload
  • Creating the monitor IDs, function IDs, Risk ID & Mitigation ID

SAP Security Consultant

Biocon / JK Techno Soft Ltd
04.2014 - 06.2014
  • Company Overview: Bio con is an emerging global biopharmaceutical enterprise focused on delivering affordable innovation
  • It is committed to reduce therapy costs of chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases by leveraging India's cost advantage to deliver affordable healthcare solutions to patients, partners and healthcare systems across the globe
  • Role based implementation and authorization support for different tracks
  • Created master and derived roles for SD, FI, MM, QA, PS & PM tracks by restricting the co-responding Org values
  • Maintaining the auth objects in SU24 for relevant auth check
  • Created single roles for DMS track
  • Involved in UAT support setting up the test ID's and fixing any access issues by running traces (ST01, RSECADMIN, etc.)
  • Supported for MDG (Master data Governance) and as well as PPM (Portfolio project management) and understanding the workflow of PS (project systems)
  • Created some 2000 roles for MM workflow process like PR creation, PO creation, PR & PO approvals based on the level of approvals using SHDB
  • Extensive support for QA & QC by understanding the workflow and providing authorizations for inspection lot, inspection types, batch processing, batch information cockpit, create change Master and BOM approval
  • Providing ongoing support for project teams
  • Bio con is an emerging global biopharmaceutical enterprise focused on delivering affordable innovation
  • It is committed to reduce therapy costs of chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases by leveraging India's cost advantage to deliver affordable healthcare solutions to patients, partners and healthcare systems across the globe

SAP Security Consultant

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) / JK Techno Soft Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2014
  • Company Overview: Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a subsidiary of Unilever, is a fastmoving consumer products (FMCG) company
  • It offers foods, beverages, home care, and personal care products
  • User administration using Central User Administrator
  • Creating users and assigning the roles based on business requirement
  • Checking the Sol man ticket and analyzing issues
  • Transporting the role modifications through Sol man across all landscapes
  • Resolving authorization issues in various SAP systems like R/3, BIW and Enterprise Portal
  • Proficient in analyzing the missing authorization based on the SU53 screen shot sent by end user
  • Tracing out the user activities using ST01 to trouble shoot user issue using RC codes
  • Checking the SOD conflicts for critical transactions of R/3
  • Restricting the values of Org and Non-org authorization values in Master and derived roles
  • Creating the CHARM request (CR) and moving the changes through TR (transport request) to production system
  • Analyzing and fixing BIW authorization issues using RSECADMIN transaction
  • Performed Change Request and Role transports through solution manager across Landscape
  • Locking/Unlocking the transaction codes in production as per business requirement
  • Activate/De-activate, Password reset, Lock and unlock of users
  • Efficiency in using SUIM for generating the reports and getting required information
  • Creating Derived Roles for maintain the organization levels
  • Generating roles through SUPC
  • Providing the Developer access key and objects as per the request
  • Extending the SAPOSS user ids maintaining the password in SMP for various systems
  • Checking the license management in USMM
  • Providing the access to requested queries and info-providers
  • Configuration of request like request type, priority, application configuration & employee type configuration
  • Configuration of User data source & request form customization in CUP
  • Maintaining SMPT server details, CUA system settings & connectors in GRC CUP 5.3
  • Configuration of Email reminders & maintaining the default roles as per the requirement
  • Configuring the custom fields as per the business requirement
  • Role mapping in GRC CUP corresponding to Business area
  • Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL), a subsidiary of Unilever, is a fastmoving consumer products (FMCG) company
  • It offers foods, beverages, home care, and personal care products

Education

Bachelors - CSE (Computer Science of Engineering)

JNTU
01.2006

Skills

  • User Administration
  • Data Privacy Regulations
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Transport Management System
  • SAP Fiori Security
  • SAP Authorization Management
  • GRC Access Control
  • SAP HANA Security
  • Role Design Expertise
  • Segregation of Duties Analysis
  • Identity Management Integration

Timeline

SAP Security Consultant

Citrix
07.2023 - Current

SAP Security/Fiori/GRC Consultant

Blue Triton Brands
06.2022 - 06.2023

SAP Security Consultant

Cognizant
08.2020 - 04.2022

SAP Security & GRC Consultant

India Medtronic Pvt Ltd
08.2015 - 08.2020

SAP Security & GRC Consultant

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) / JK Techno Soft Ltd
07.2014 - 07.2015

SAP Security Consultant

Biocon / JK Techno Soft Ltd
04.2014 - 06.2014

SAP Security Consultant

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) / JK Techno Soft Ltd
09.2011 - 03.2014

Bachelors - CSE (Computer Science of Engineering)

JNTU

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