Balakrishna Allam

Having around 11+ years of experience in IT industry, which includes SAP security for various environments like ECC, S/4 HANA, BI, EP, GRC, Fiori, HANA, IAG, IPS, BTP, IAS, BOBJ, Solman and Fair knowledge in SAP Basis activities.

Fair SME Experience in the areas of User administration, Role management, development, troubleshooting, Testing, and reports generation in Security environment.

Fair Experience on HANA DB Security.

Experience includes analysis, development, and maintenance of SAP Security in SAP R/3, HANA, ECC, S/4 HANA, BI, Solman, Fiori & GRC AC 10.1, 12.0.

Have good experience in working with different function modules FICO, MM, EWM, SD, APO, PaPM, TM, VIM, SAC, PP, PM etc.

Involved in S/4 HANA migration, GRC implementation and upgrade activities. Experience in internal and External SAP system audit, Data validations.

Good knowledge in SOD and SOX.

I am a certified ScrumMaster.

Project – 1:  S/4 HANA upgrade, Rollout, BTP implementation, IAG support.

Client   Name : Castleton   commodities international, Stamford,CT,U.S.A

Feb   2024- Oct-2024

Description

Castleton Commodities International is a   leading global energy commodities merchant and infrastructure asset investor.

Quick   summary of Roles & responsibilities

• Creating new business and fiori roles after upgrading to S/4 HANA.
• Providing Weekly and Monthly reports to client.
• Created S-users in SAP support portal and assigned authorization packages.
• Trouble shooting ABAP related issues.
• Handling different ticketing tools like Solman, Remedy.
• Involved in Development activities i.e. Creating new roles, Enhancing existing roles as per business requirements and in new S/4 HANA systems.
• Involved in SU24 changes as part of authorizations automation.
• Handled incidents as part of troubleshooting user reported authorization issues.
• Created Fiori front end roles by using catalogs, Spaces and Pages
• Involved in GRC AC Regular base line activities such as New Role imports and maintain approvers
• Created GRC Requests for Role assignments to grant user expected access, Creating FireFighter ID, linking FF ID and Service ID, checking FF logs, pulling reports based on FF ID usage (FF log review).
• Was Trouble shooting GRC config issues and FFID login issues ,GRC Request approval issues.
• Doing remediation and mitigation activities by using ARA tool.
• creating users and assigning roles through ARM tool.
• Involved in running test cases after upgrading to the new version 12.0.
• Troubleshooting different kind of connection issues with SAP system.

Project – 2 :  S/4 HANA Migration and ECC support, GRC support.

Client   Name: Evonik   Industries, Germany

June   2018 – August 2023

Description

Evonik   Industries AG is a publicly-listed German specialty chemicals company headquartered in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the second-largest   chemicals company in Germany, and one of the largest specialty chemicals   companies in the world. .

Quick   summary of Roles & responsibilities

• Handling Team and assigning tickets to team members.
• Providing Weekly and Monthly reports to client.
• Created S-users in SAP support portal and assigning authorization packages.
• Providing KT to team members.
• Handling different ticketing tools like Jira, Solman
• Involved in Development activities i.e. Creating new roles, Enhancing existing roles as per business requirements and in new S/4 HANA systems.
• Involved ins SU24 changes as part of authorizations automation.
• Handled incidents as part of trouble shooting user reported authorization issues.
• Created Fiori front end roles by using catalogs, Groups and Spaces.
• Involved in GRC AC Regular base line activities such as New Role imports and maintain approvers
• Created GRC Requests for Role assignments to grant user expected access, Creating Fire Fighter ID, linking FF ID and Service ID, checking FF logs, pulling reports based on FF ID usage (FF log review).
• Was Trouble shooting GRC config issues and FFID login issues, GRC Request approval issues.
• Doing remediation and mitigation activities by using ARA tool.
• creating users and assigning roles through ARM tool.
• Involved in GRC Post installation activities.
• Having call with auditors and providing required information.

PROJECT - 3: S/4 HANA Migration and ECC support, GRC 10.1 implementation

Client   Name :Sabre Travel Technologies, USA

Feb   2016 - Apr 2018

Description

Sabre   is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel   industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive   innovation and ingenuity across the travel ecosystem. Sabre partners with   airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute   and fulfill travel.

Quick   summary of Roles & responsibilities

• Provided daily SAP ECC, HANA, S/4 HANA, GRC, security production support such as user ID requests, access requirements and troubleshooting incidents and problems. Define and maintain authorizations and roles, pulling reports using SUIM.
• Was responsible for SAP Security for ECC, HANA, Fiori and GRC AC environments.
• Created SAP transports and work within change management guidelines ensuring that all transports moved into production maintain system integrity
• As a SAP security consultant, Involved in FCR’s, HN Incidents, Tasks resolution as per user requests, Generating reports based on business requirements. Involved in User administration, Role administration, Troubleshooting Authorization issues. Handling HANA systems related objects creation and Maintenance Ensuring Day to day SAP Authorization, Role/Profile development, and support and manage SAP authorizations.
• Involved in GRC AC Regular base line activities such as Creating Fire Fighter ID, linking FF ID and Service ID, checking FF logs, pulling reports based on FF ID usage, Defining Owners and Controller for every FF ID.
• Trouble shooting GRC config issues and FFID login issues, GRC request approval issues.
• Creating Fiori catalogs and groups.
• Activating Odata services.
• Involved system cut over activities.
• Created Risks and Function Id’s in custom rule set.
• Doing remediation and mitigation activities by using ARA tools.
• Creating users’ roles in HANA DB
• Creating users in SAP support portal

PROJECT - 4: Support Project

Client   Name: Harman International, Global

Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

Description

HARMAN International is a global leader in connected car technology, lifestyle   audio innovations, design and analytics, cloud services and IoT solutions.

Quick   summary of Roles & responsibilities

• Was Responsible for Security for ECC, Portal environments.
• Provided support to resolve SAP ECC, BI security related issues
• Involved in discussion for security solution with functional teams, complete development and unit testing of security changes, support QA and Integration testing and participated in post go-live support
• As a SAP security consultant, Involved in SRS, Incidents resolution as per user requests, Generating reports based on business requirements.
• Involved in User and Role Administration, Troubleshooting Authorization issues. Handling ECC, GRC& BI systems Related objects creation and Maintenance.
• Ensured Day to day SAP Authorization, Role/Profile development, and support and
• Manage SAP authorizations.
• involved in GRC AC Regular base line activities.
• Tickets handling through different ticketing tools.