Geethika Palaka
Associate - 2 SAP Security And GRC
Summary
Dynamic SAP security professional with extensive experience at PwC, excelling in risk assessment and authorization management. Proven track record in SAP role creation and troubleshooting, enhancing compliance and user access efficiency. Strong communicator and collaborator, successfully completing Go-Live phases with minimal authorization issues, demonstrating exceptional problem-solving skills.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate- Offshore
Eaton
05.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Eaton is dedicated to enhancing people's lives and the environment through reliable, efficient, safe, and sustainable power management technologies
- Conducted comprehensive workshops for end-users in the Procure to Pay (PTP), Quote to Cash (QTC), Record to Report (RTC), and Quality Management (QM) processes to improve understanding and compliance
- Developed multiple SAP roles in alignment with organizational values related to sales, plant, and company codes using GUI scripts and SECATT to automate role creation
- Updated organizational values efficiently utilizing LSMW and PFCGMASSVAL to ensure accurate data maintenance and consistency across systems
- Created test IDs for smoke testing and executed smoke tests, making necessary role changes through SU24 to verify role effectiveness and security compliance
- Identified and resolved unit testing (UT) issues documented during UT testing, ensuring a seamless transition to production environments
- Practically troubleshooting security issues by employing SU53 and enabling traces in R/3, demonstrating a methodical approach to problem resolution
- Scheduled and coordinated trace sessions with users to capture authorization issues and executed timely resolutions to enhance user access
- Utilized SU53 and SUIM reports to assign missing authorizations to users, ensuring compliance with security protocols and user needs
- Successfully completed the Go-Live process for two phases, contributing to project milestones and client satisfaction
- Fostered a collaborative environment by facilitating feedback sessions with end-users to gather insights and improve role configurations
- Demonstrated strong analytical skills in role modeling and access management, leading to a significant reduction in authorization-related incidents post-Go-Live
- Working on Charm to transport multiple roles
- Working on NWBC to identify risks at both the user level and the role level
- Worked with the Panaya tool, where users could raise tickets for issues, and I resolved them
- Eaton is dedicated to enhancing people's lives and the environment through reliable, efficient, safe, and sustainable power management technologies
Associate- Offshore
Omnicell
01.2024 - Current
- Company Overview: Omnicell is defining and delivering the outcomes-centric innovation that is transforming medication management across all settings of care
- Managed user administration tasks, including creation, password resets, locking/unlocking accounts, modifications, and terminations
- Assigned roles based on user requirements
- Analyzed missing authorizations and developed appropriate solutions
- Investigated missing authorizations in /IWBEP/ERROR_LOG and implemented effective resolutions
- Created test IDs for smoke testing, executed smoke tests, and made necessary role adjustments through SU24 to ensure role effectiveness and security compliance
- Worked with the Jira tool, where users could raise tickets for issues, and I resolved them
- Omnicell is defining and delivering the outcomes-centric innovation that is transforming medication management across all settings of care
Associate- Offshore
12.2021 - Current
- Gathered all the required table dump from the client legacy system
- Uploading table data in Alteryx tool to cleanse the given files
- Creating the tables in HANA DB and checking the count of the files
- Tableau and Excel tools for delivering required data output and to present them visually for better understanding
Associate- Offshore
PwC
07.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: ACE-S (Auditing and Consulting Engine for SAP), PwC’s proprietary tool for the automated analysis of SAP security and configuration, which facilitates an efficient and effective approach to risk detection
- Worked on ACE-S tool for multiple clients to perform risk assessments
- Has good exposure in Functions, Query designer, created multiple custom tests based on client requirement
- Creating custom tests according to the requirements provided by the client
- Resolving errors and generating of reports
- Generated the ruleset and shared with the clients whenever they requested
- Prepared final report viewer which contains the user details with respect to the risk ID’s
- Worked on multiple workpapers
- ACE-S (Auditing and Consulting Engine for SAP), PwC’s proprietary tool for the automated analysis of SAP security and configuration, which facilitates an efficient and effective approach to risk detection
Associate- Offshore
T-Mobile USA, Inc
06.2023 - 12.2023
- Company Overview: T-Mobile US, Inc
- Is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Bellevue, Washington
- Developed SAP roles during the build phase using GUI scripts, ensuring rigorous implementation of SU24 changes for enhanced security compliance
- Conducted thorough unit testing for transaction codes (T-codes) to verify role functionality and integrity
- Proactively identified and resolved User Acceptance Testing (UAT) issues, ensuring smooth project progression and compliance with business requirements
- Analyzed missing authorizations and delivered appropriate solutions to mitigate access issues
- Performed role modifications by adding missing authorizations based on SU53 and Trace reports, enhancing user access efficiency
- Managed cutover activities, including creating users in production using GUI scripts, granting cutover access, and assigning roles to ensure continuity of operations
- Provided hyper care support by modifying roles to address missing access requests for both business and RFC users, maintaining user productivity
- Executed Segregation of Duties (SoD) checks in GRC to prevent compliance violations and mitigate risk
- Raised and tracked access requests for users in GRC, facilitating prompt resolution of access requirements
- Successfully completed the Go-Live phase with minimal authorization-related issues, demonstrating attention to detail and effective problem-solving skills
- Collaborated with stakeholders to enhance the understanding of security policies, fostering a culture of compliance and responsibility across teams
- Continuously monitored and optimized role assignments to ensure alignment with evolving business needs and best practices in security management
- T-Mobile US, Inc
- Is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Bellevue, Washington
Associate- Offshore
Galaxy
12.2022 - 06.2023
- Company Overview: SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of the SAP S/4HANA ERP system and runs on the SAP HANA in-memory database
- Worked on creating users & Roles
- Adding catalogs to the roles
- Added multiple restriction values to the roles according to the business requirement
- Assignment of Roles as per the requirement from the users
- Troubleshooting and resolving authorization issues by using trace
- Locking and unlocking the users according to the requirement
- IAM (Identity and Access management), Maintain business users, Maintain business roles, Manage workforce, Display authorization trace
- Participated in post upgrade security sessions in order to update security catalogs and roles
- Manage business role changes (security upgrade application)
- Participated in UAT phase and successfully completed Go-Live with very minimal authorization issues
- SAP S/4HANA Cloud is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) version of the SAP S/4HANA ERP system and runs on the SAP HANA in-memory database
Associate- Offshore
PwC
08.2021 - 01.2023
- Monitoring of service tickets, and fixing, adding catalogs and groups to the roles to get access to the required apps
- Worked on User Administration involves Creation, Password Resetting, Locking/Unlocking, Modifying and Terminating Users
- Assignment of Roles as per the requirement from the users
- Analyzing Missing authorizations and providing the appropriate solutions
- Assigning reference user to users
- Creation of Single roles, Composite roles & Enabler roles
- Working on System Refresh
- Creating authorization groups and maintaining tables in authorization group
- Mass transports of roles, mass generations of roles
- Troubleshooting and resolving authorization issues by using SU53 and SUIM
- Creation and maintenance of activity groups using PFCG and adapting Predefined Activity groups and authorization profile
- Maintaining Authorization objects, manual addition of Authorization objects as per business requirement and Analysis of missing authorizations
- Worked on multiple cloud system’s related to security user creation: DWC, SAC, C4C, Data Intelligence
Associate- Offshore
Amgen
10.2022 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: Amgen Inc is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California
- Involved in User and Role administration tasks
- Troubleshooting authorization related errors
- User administration (creating, maintaining, deleting user accounts, and assigning roles) Managing user login parameters and password parameters
- Amgen Inc is an American multinational biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California
Associate- Offshore
Spectrum Brands
07.2022 - 08.2022
- Company Overview: Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc
- Is an American diversified company, one of the Fortune 500 companies, and among the largest of its kind on the list
- Performed Unit test of the roles after role modifications
- Assisted users in troubleshooting and identifying authorization issues using SU53 and trace analysis
- Assignment of Roles as per the requirement from the users
- Analyzing Missing authorizations and providing the appropriate solutions
- Adding catalogs and groups to the roles for getting apps according to the requirement from the users
- Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc
- Is an American diversified company, one of the Fortune 500 companies, and among the largest of its kind on the list
Education
Master Of Business Administration - HR
Malla Reddy Engineering College For Women
01.2021
Skills
- SAP ACE-S
- SAP S4 HANA
- SAP S4 HANA Public Cloud
- SAP Fiori Security
- SAC
- SAP – R/3 Security
- SAP role creation
- User administration
- Authorization management
- Risk assessment
- Problem solving
- Effective communication
- Team collaboration
- MS Access
- Troubleshooting authorization
- Employee training
- Time management
Certification
- Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
- SAP Certified Associate Security Administrator - In Progress
Timeline
Associate- Offshore
Eaton
05.2024 - Current
Associate- Offshore
Omnicell
01.2024 - Current
Associate- Offshore
T-Mobile USA, Inc
06.2023 - 12.2023
Associate- Offshore
Galaxy
12.2022 - 06.2023
Associate- Offshore
Amgen
10.2022 - 11.2022
Associate- Offshore
Spectrum Brands
07.2022 - 08.2022
Associate- Offshore
12.2021 - Current
Associate- Offshore
PwC
08.2021 - 01.2023
Associate- Offshore
PwC
07.2021 - Current
Master Of Business Administration - HR
Malla Reddy Engineering College For Women
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