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SRINIVAS C

Princeton,NJ

Summary

Overall 16+ years of diversified experience which includes implementation & support for ECC 6.0, GRC 10.1 & 12.0, S/4 HANA and Fiori Security.
10+ years as SAP Security Consultant.
Lead and facilitate information gathering sessions to validate business cases, gather and document Business functional objectives.
Experience includes User Security, Greenfield Implementation, Migration and Supporting SAP R/3 Systems Security (ECC 5.0, 6.0, CRM, NetWeaver, BW/BI, Enterprise Portal, S/4 HANA, Solution Manager and GRC 10.1/12.0)
Worked extensively as Sr. SAP Security Consultant, System and Network Administrator, SAP Basis Administrator.
Experience in implementation of SAP GRC AC/EAM 10.1/12.0 and Security for SAP S/4 HANA, Fiori, Cloud migration related activities in SAP Security Perspective.
Experience in SAP Security related activities in Migrations.
Experience on ECC, S/4 HANA and Fiori Security administration.
Experience in Remediation/Mitigation of SOD Violations at roles and User Level.
Prepare and maintain the Project plan for UAT, Cutover, Go-Live and Hyper care activities.
Prepare Role Matrix and Design documents for Security Roles and authorizations.
Security Role Design and implementations for various business processes like FTP/LWM/MDG/OTC/RTR/STP/ Ariba and HCM.
Worked on FIORI Security administration including Front/Back End Role design, create and maintain Catalog/Business Groups and Launchpad configuration.
Knowledge on Central User Administration ALE Setup, CUA Logs validation and User administration.
Experience in using IT Service Management / CHARM / Service Now / Footprints / HPSM / RSD / PCM tools for Incident Management and Change Request Management.
Experience in Role creation, derivation & modification in PFCG & Role Expert, Test and transport roles to DEV, QA & Prod systems.
Performed reviews for program change control, application Security, and process integrity. Conducted unit testing and functional integration testing of Security profiles. Reviewed and assessed controls surrounding SAP R/3 administration Security.
Participated in SCRUM Product backlog grooming, Sprint Planning, PI Planning & Review, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective meetings.
Knowledge on Facilitating project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos.
Documented all the procedures and involved in end user trainings.
Proficient and well-versed in Office suite – Microsoft Office skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Skilled in time management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage detailed, concurrent tasks.
Proven experience in ability to adapt quickly and work in teams, a can-do ability to take charge when necessary and drive the work to completion.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Terumo Medical Corporation
04.2020 - Current
  • Implementation of SAP Security for SAP HANA Decentralized EWM, BW and GRC 12.0 Access control (AC).
  • Greenfield implementation of SAP HANA EWM for MicroVention.
  • Configuring Access Risk Analysis, Access Request management, Emergency Access management in GRC 12.0.
  • Implementation of Security Roles for Solution Manager, with Solution Documentation and CHARM.
  • Pre Go-Live/Go-Live/Post Go-Live activities in SAP Security Perspective for system migration from Cloud to Cloud, Implementations Cutover Activities and Go Lives.
  • Maintain MSMP/BRF+ GRC Workflows for Access Request Approval, Mitigation Control Maintenance, Firefighter Log Report Review workflows and MSMP Process IDs.
  • Manage the SharePoint location with relevant product documents, help resources and guides for SAP Implementation and Upgrades.
  • Designing roles with Fiori Apps Catalogs and Groups for different Business Processes.
  • Conduct working sessions with Business and functional teams, understand business needs and identify correct user access/role for systems in the SAP system landscape.
  • Responsible for SAP Role design, development and SAP role maintenance following the customer’s change management process, including documentation and change advisory board (CAB).
  • Review current roles (Tcodes and authorizations) assigned to users, with Business Unit COEs to determine Job role needs.
  • Updated SU24 with new authorizations Maintained and Updated roles as needed.
  • Create/Update Job role Matrix across Business Units for assigned functional & technical areas based on use of critical transactions and authorizations.
  • Work with Project teams on QA and Prod cutover security tasks.
  • Prepared UAT scripts and strategy documents for future phases.
  • Involved in Risk documentation & analysis, Work with Implementation/Migration teams on respective Security activities.
  • Collaborated with BW Team to create BW Security roles with authorizations for reports based on team requirements.
  • Create Custom roles for Users based on the requirement using HANA Studio and Development perspective.
  • Work on HANA Studio/Web IDE Administration tasks viz User administration/Authorizations.
  • Handling Day to Day Incident requests and Change requests received in IT Service Management (ITSM) tool.
  • Taking care of Documentation updates for SAP Security Implementation and Migration activities.
  • Worked with Internal/External Audit teams by preparing evidence of SAP system and application security for quarterly audit compliance.
  • Work with Business, Audit teams to conduct periodic SOX audit reviews.
  • Worked with COE team on Role remediation and User remediation activities based on audit findings.
  • Support business, audit, and IT teams to define mitigation controls and support on-going maintenance.
  • Worked on User Provisioning/ Deprovisioning /Recertification as a part of audit reports.

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Analog Devices
11.2019 - 04.2020
  • SAP Security administration and analysis including User Administration, Role Development and Modification, Upgrade and Maintenance Support, Root Cause Analysis and Incident Resolution across SAP Landscape including ECC, CRM, BW/BI, Enterprise Portal.
  • Collaborate and lead sessions with business users and analytics teams to walk through business requirements/issues, solutions requirements.
  • Validate business cases and document business functional objectivities to update the role structure.
  • Develop and enhance SAP security with ECC, CRM and BW environment
  • Responsible for the business role design, requirement gathering, creating user role authorization matrix and SOD matrix.
  • Meet with customers and team members to consult, configure, implement and support client requirements.
  • Analyze the Test & Performance Results and implement the changes required to meet project and business expectations.
  • Role development, derivation & modification in PFCG & Role Expert, test and transport roles to DEV, QA & Prod systems through Change Request (CR) Management Process.
  • Coordinate detailed Unit & Integration tests.
  • Monitoring BMC Footprints tool for Day to Day user access requests/incidents/change requests and weekly/monthly service reports.
  • Day to day technical support and troubleshoot Security issues.
  • Analyze missing authorizations using System Trace (ST01), SU53 report and SUIM.
  • RRMX, RSRT, RSECADMIN for BW Authorizations.
  • Analyze, troubleshoot SAP Security related issues with root cause analysis and propose solutions.
  • Maintain operational KPI, SLA and audit related documentation for SAP security, related to roles and user assignments.
  • Maintained detailed documentation on SAP security configuration settings, providing a valuable reference tool for troubleshooting or future system enhancements.
  • Coordinate with Basis Team in Implementations and Enhancements.
  • Assist/Report Monthly/Quarterly SODs reports and support for both Internal and External Auditing.

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Puget Sound Energy (PSE)
06.2019 - 11.2019
  • .Responsible for ongoing implementation of the Security configuration for SAP S/4 HANA, GRC 12.0 Access Control (AC), Risk Management (RM) and other systems
  • Actively involved in the design, business requirements gathering, and Go Live of customer implementation projects
  • Work directly with clients to gather an understanding of their business needs and assists the client in configuration and implementation
  • Coordinate with Basis Team in GRC 12.0 Implementation and Enhancements
  • Configuring Access risk Analysis, Access request management, Emergency Access management and Process Control
  • Reporting in GRC AC 12.0 (Risk Analysis, EAM Logs, Mitigation Controls, etc)
  • Rule building and validation, risk analysis, risk identification, risk remediation and mitigating controls
  • SOD validation reports generation in GRC
  • Monthly/Quarterly Audit Report generation and validations for both Internal and External Auditing
  • Worked on SAP S/4 HANA Security implementation in coordination with Accenture team
  • User creation in Hana Database Studio
  • Create Custom roles for Users based on the requirement using HANA Studio and Development perspective
  • Grant Analytic/Object/Package privileges to Users when required
  • Create Catalog/Repository roles based on the requirement
  • Maintenance of HANA User requests - Password resets, delete, deactivate, and reactivate HANA users
  • Create Front end/Back end Roles for FIORI based on functional requirements
  • Coordinate with Functional team in creating Tiles/Catalogs/Business Groups for FIORI
  • SAP Security administration and analysis including User Administration, Role Development and Modification, Upgrade and Maintenance Support, Root Cause Analysis and Incident Resolution across SAP Landscape including ECC, CRM, BW/BI, Enterprise Portal, XI/PI, S/4 HANA, Solution Manager and GRC 12.0
  • Actively involved in all security features testing on any SAP application implementation and / or upgrades.
  • Coordinate sessions to validate business cases and document business functional objectivities to update the role structure, Plan and handle Development/Test/Production support schedules with teams.
  • Design Technical Roles for ECC, BW, CRM Systems.
  • Business Role creation, BP Creation and Assignment to users in SAP CRM.
  • Worked on Enterprise Portal role administration and user administration.
  • Coordinate detailed Unit Test & Integration tests.
  • Second level escalation for SAP related incidents.
  • Good understanding of incident management process, SLA and OLA concepts.
  • Monitoring Service Now tool for Day-to-Day user access requests/incidents/change requests and weekly/monthly service reports
  • Maintain up to date Security files and audit reports regarding security related events.

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)
01.2014 - 06.2019
  • Implementation and configuration of GRC 10.1 Access Control (AC), Emergency Access Management (EAM)
  • SAP Security administration and analysis including User Administration, Activity Group Development and Modification, Upgrade and Maintenance Support, Root Cause Analysis and Incident Resolution across SAP Landscape including ECC, CRM, NetWeaver, BW/BI, Enterprise Portal, S/4 HANA, Solution Manager and GRC 10.1
  • Responsible for working with Basis Team in Security configuration for GRC Implementation and Enhancements
  • Worked on Security implementation for pilot project on SAP S/4 HANA
  • Create Custom roles for Users based on the requirement using HANA Studio and Development perspective
  • Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for Onsite, Best Shore and Business Calls
  • Work on Incident Management and Change Requests from Service Now tool
  • Facilitating project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos
  • Perform the necessary analysis and consultation to identify business issues, solution requirements and related benefits
  • Meet with customers and team members to consult, configure, implement and support client requirements
  • Responsible for SAP Role design, development and SAP role maintenance following the customer’s change management process, including documentation and change advisory board (CAB)
  • Prepare the testing schedule and lead the Security Role testings for UAT
  • Work directly and lead the work streams involved in business transformation to define and create business roles
  • Develop and enhance SAP security with ECC, CRM and BW environment
  • Analyze the Test & Performance Results and implement the changes required to meet project and business expectations
  • Monitoring Service Now tool for Day to Day user access requests/incidents/change requests and weekly/monthly service reports
  • Work with Basis and Business Teams in resolving the Security issues reported in Early Watch Alerts
  • Day to day technical support and troubleshoot Security issues
  • Analyze missing authorizations using System Trace (ST01), SU53 report and SUIM
  • RRMX, RSRT, RSECADMIN for BW Authorizations
  • Resolving user authorizations involving structural authorizations
  • Actively involved in PIR (post implementation review) and MIM (major incident management) meetings
  • Provide On-call Customer Support for all the SAP systems in a production environment
  • Lead the Offshore team in Regular Support activities like User Access request processing via GRC, Risk analysis and Mitigation, audit sensitive transaction usage
  • Configuring Access risk Management, Access request management, Emergency Access management in GRC 10.0
  • Provided risk analysis and risk mitigation at role level and user level
  • Define Role owners & approvers
  • Reporting in GRC AC 10.1 (Risk Analysis, EAM Logs, Mitigation Controls, etc)
  • Review and remediate any security risks with roles, segregation of duties and any potential audit concerns
  • Periodical review of Role Owners and assignment approvers in GRC with Line of Business coordinators
  • Develop, enable, disable function actions and function permissions as per business requirements in GRC AC 10.1
  • Work with the business SoD mitigating control monitors to ensure effective/accurate monitoring is occurring in a timely manner
  • Assist/Report weekly/Monthly/Quarterly SODs reports and support for both Internal and External Auditing
  • Perform periodic self-assessments/audits of SAP security environment.

SAP Security Consultant

Hewlett-Packard
11.2010 - 12.2013
  • Worked on Global Access Management implementation based on GRC 10.0 for the client COCA-COLA.
  • Configured Access risk Management, Access request management, Emergency Access management in GRC 10.0
  • Provided risk analysis and mitigation at role level and user level
  • Performed the activities – rule building and validation, risk analysis, risk identification, risk remediation and mitigating controls
  • Defined Role owners & approvers
  • Developed various SOD reports for users & Roles and cleaned up existing Roles with conflicting actions
  • Defined User access approvers and Risk owners in GRC
  • Defined Mitigation monitors and approvers in GRC
  • Day to day technical support and troubleshooting of Security issues reported in HPSC (HP Open View Service Center) and CCSN (Coca Cola Service Now) Ticketing Tool
  • Analyze missing authorizations using System Trace (ST01), SU53 report and SUIM, RRMX, RSRT, RSECADMIN for BW Authorizations
  • User administration (Setting up user accounts, unlocking user accounts, User termination process, reactivating users, Reset password on user account)
  • Validate User authorization and Role authorization data using AGR and USR tables
  • Work on Incidents raised in HPSM Tool
  • Developed and modified roles as part of enhancement through Change Request (CR) Management Process using the tool PCM (Production Change Management – Lotus Notes Based tool)
  • Maintained and Created Roles as per the Classification in RSD (Roles & Security Database – Lotus Notes Based tool) and maintained in sink between RSD and SAP
  • Resolving audit issues of removing critical authorizations, profiles from users, restrict sensitive table display/update access in production, remove debug access from production, and restrict access to business or system sensitive transactions.

SAP Basis and Security Consultant

Hewlett-Packard
03.2007 - 11.2010
  • SAP Security administration and analysis including User Administration, Role Development and Modification, Upgrade and Maintenance Support, Root Cause Analysis and Incident Resolution across SAP Landscape including ECC, CRM, BW/BI, Enterprise Portal, XI/PI and Solution Manager.
  • Implemented RCA (Route Cause Analysis) with Solution Manager for the Project – NGAM (Next Gen Apps Management).
  • Coordinate sessions to validate business cases and document business functional objectivities to update the role structure, Plan and handle Development/Test/Production support schedules with teams.
  • Design Technical Roles for ECC, BW, CRM Systems
  • Business Role creation, BP Creation and Assignment to users in SAP CRM
  • Worked on Enterprise Portal role administration and user administration.
  • Coordinate detailed Unit Test & Integration tests.
  • Second level escalation for SAP related incidents
  • Monitoring Service Now tool for Day-to-Day user access requests/incidents/change requests and weekly/monthly service reports
  • Maintain up to date Security files and audit reports regarding security related events.

Sr. Network and System Administrator

Innovatives ITechnologies/Speck Systems Ltd/EDS
01.1994 - 03.2007
  • Server maintenance activities viz., patch upgrades, Disaster recovery planning and execution, Periodical Backups for the servers and databases using VERITAS 11D and Dell TL2000 Backup server.
  • Provided Network maintenance, periodical backups for Cisco switches, Router and ASA.
  • Installation, configuration and maintenance of file server and Exchange server.
  • Installation, configuration and monitoring of Dell Servers (2950/1950/860) & Dell Latitude Laptops.
  • Performed Documentation on Network support activities.
  • Install and provide maintenance for Intergraph GIS Systems, Digital Fotorite Systems, HP Plotters, PSTD Scanners & HP Network Printers, primely used for Satellite Imagery Interpretation.
  • Performed Migrations from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Active Directory
  • Configured and Implemented Group Policy Objects in Active Directory.
  • Performed Disaster and Network Security Policy Implementation documentation.
  • Performed RAID5 and RAID 0+1, configuring in SAN device and servers.
  • Performed Desktop support and print Server administration.
  • Ensured optimal system availability by managing backup schedules and verifying successful completion of backups regularly.

Skills

  • User Administration
  • SAP Authorization Management
  • Role Design Expertise
  • Audit and Compliance Support
  • SAP HANA Security
  • SAP Fiori Security
  • BW and HANA DB Security
  • GRC Access Control/EAM
  • Incident and Change Management
  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Business Process Analysis
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Project Management
  • User Training
  • Team Mentoring
  • Collaborative Team Player

Certification

SAP Business Objects Access Control 10.0 (GRC) – June 2014· ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management – December 2015

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

Timeline

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Terumo Medical Corporation
04.2020 - Current

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Analog Devices
11.2019 - 04.2020

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Puget Sound Energy (PSE)
06.2019 - 11.2019

Sr. SAP Security Consultant

Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)
01.2014 - 06.2019

SAP Security Consultant

Hewlett-Packard
11.2010 - 12.2013

SAP Basis and Security Consultant

Hewlett-Packard
03.2007 - 11.2010

Sr. Network and System Administrator

Innovatives ITechnologies/Speck Systems Ltd/EDS
01.1994 - 03.2007
SRINIVAS C