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Education
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Taposh Parida

Taposh Parida

Bengaluru,Karnataka

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Work History

Support Centre Analyst

Schneider Eeletric
Bengaluru, India
10.2011 - 10.2013
  • Closely collaborated with Reliability Analyst to locate theroot cause of defects within ashortest possible timeframe.
  • Troubleshooted and analyzed issues as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and escalation point.
  • Closed 95% of support issues faster than target resolution times.
  • Investigated reported maintenance issues and system defects, applying expertise to resolve problems with maximum efficiency.
  • Analyzed support tickets and current performance against Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and internal targets to generate insights for management.

SAP GRC Consultant

Schneider Eletric
Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.2013 - 11.2018

Worked as an effective team player and as an individual contributor.

Executed day-to-day SAP Security tasks including user administration, and role administration. segregation of duties conflict checking, GRC administration, and technical troubleshooting. Performed periodic self-assessments/audits of SAP security environment – ECC, BW, GRC 10.1, One PI & Charm Tool (Solman).
Role Administration: Creation/deletion and modification of single roles as per business requirements. Risk-Free Roles were created as per GRC policies.
User Administration: User IDs create/delete, update, lock/unlock & password reset. Troubleshooting user access through authorization error analysis (SU53) and System Trace (STAUTHTRACE)
OSS connections, S-User, developer keys, and object keys were all handled through the SAP support portal.
Troubleshooting the workflow and audit logs of the ARM requests and resolving issues.
Support activities in SAP GRC Access Control 10.1 such as New user creation, Multiple user creation, and change in role assignment through Access Control Management.
Actively participated in Global Audits conducted for Mazars for all the different Federated ERPs in Schneider and participated in Country SAP audit for India conducted by E&Y, PwC & KPMG.
Configuration of Emergency Access Management, Maintaining the configuration parameters, Creating Firefighter ID, Maintaining Firefighter ID Owner and Controller, and Assigning Firefighter ID to the user.
Have a very good functional knowledge of Access control components - GRC-SAC-ARA (Access Risk Analysis), GRC-SAC-ARQ (Access Request), GRC-SAC-EAM (Emergency Access Management)
Training the users on Firefighter usage, Mitigation monitoring, and the workflow of the requests. Approval training for managers and role owners, sessions on risk analysis, and mitigating the risks for SOD correspondents.
Security Audit - Worked with the various Business stakeholders and Audit teams in identifying risks, mitigation controls, and approval workflows in consideration of current processes. Provided reports to the internal and external auditors and created custom audit roles based on audit needs. Performed Audit activity for India Business and BeNeDech (Germany, Switzerland, Belgium & Netherlands)
Extensively worked on the preparation of monthly KPI reports and scheduling the background jobs for risk simulation to prepare theSOD authorization matrix region-wise.
Worked with the business SOD mitigating control monitors to ensure effective/accurate monitoring is occurring in a timely manner.
Importing roles to the GRC repository and mapping the roles and having a good understanding of role methodology and approval methodology.
Contributed to multiple scheduled and ad-hoc projects concurrently as well as delivered day-to-day responsibilities. Executed security maintenance processes and procedures as defined.
Developed and documented SAP security policies, procedures, and guidelines.
Provided solutions to SAP security-related issues as quickly as possible through detailed analysis and persistence. The reported root cause for all security-related issues.
Performed periodic self-assessments/audits of the security environment.
Performed remediation and mitigation against various risks associated with roles and users. As per the process of remediation activities, creation of Mitigation control ids and assigning the same to users as well as roles. Creation of Owners, Approver´s and Monitors and assigning to Mitigation controls. Updating of controls and approvers as per the requirement.
Onsite Live Support (BeNeDech) for Supporting Go Live for BeNeDech Project. Actively Supported 2500 users during the Go live period of 15 days.
Supported - Monthly Reports, Year End process support performing Locking users, unlocking users, and monthly maintenance activities.
Working on a ticketing tool to resolve the issues & problems in different kinds of SAP Security Modules.
Participated in the Digital Transformation program of Schneider.
Extensive knowledge of Internal Control and Segregation of Duties.
Participated in Meetings with Schneider Electric Global Internal Control team on Segregation of Duties and reduction of Risks from Business users' accounts as a part of the Remediation process.
Worked extensively with the Internal Control teams during Audit reviews related to SAP by connecting with KEY users to find the level of access those were granted/removed during the migration of employees from one Entity to another.
Participated in Yearly Global Audit reviews conducted by auditing companies and worked extensively with external Auditors.
Have worked extensively with KEY users and Internal Control Teams to reduce the risks below 20% using remediation techniques.
Have worked with the RPA team on the development of RPA bots for the Finance domain which has automated many manual tasks and reports which has led to an increase in efficiency.
Possess extensive knowledge of DPA (Data Protection Act) which prohibits revealing information like Ban Account, Age, and name to others except the users.
Have knowledge about SOX Audits and SOD (Segregation of Duties) while mitigating Risks.
Worked for More than 3 ERPs – Turkey, SNB, BeNeDech & provided backup support.
Handling 4 GET resources within the team assigning daily tasks and updates & Process Training

Data Privacy & Protection Specilist

Schneider Electric
Bengaluru, Karnataka
11.2019 - Current

Collaborate with business and IT teams to understand data governance requirements and develop solutions that meet their needs
Develop and maintain data governance policies, standards, and procedures
Develop and maintain data privacy and compliance processes
Provide guidance and support to business and IT teams on data governance best practices and principles.
Establish and manage data governance metrics and dashboards to track progress and communicate results to privacy managers.
Drafting and reviewing Data Processing Agreements, updating policies and processes, and overall implementation of the organization's Data Privacy Framework.
Develop and maintain internal data privacy policies, training modules, and content related to data privacy practices.
Inform and advise the organization on Global Data Protection Laws and their requirements, liaising with local support as required.
Work independently and liaise with business stakeholders and clients to understand and evaluate their respective data privacy & security requirements.
Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments, identify the risks of processing, and follow up on the risk closure.
Independently manage and execute data privacy-related projects for the organization.
Maintain and update application and data inventory of the organization.
Handle inquiries and issues relating to data privacy practices, andrespond to data subject requests and related data privacy rights.
Ensure that systematic compliance audits are undertaken and that their findings are reported and acted upon.
Awareness of thelatest technologies and Industry trends related to data privacy

Education

Certificate of Higher Education -

Dav Public School
Odisha

Foundation Degree in Science -

Raghunathjew College
Odisha

Bachelor in Bioinformatics -

IASE Deemed Univercity
Odisha

Languages

English
Advanced

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of [Number] in the development of [Project name].

Skills

  • GRC Access Control (101,12)
    SAP R3 Security (Version 70)
    Knowledge of S/4 HANA and FIORI
    One PI system
    IT Services
    Handling New Graduate Engineers & Training
    Amazon Web Services
    Excel Advance
  • Problem-solving
  • Time management
  • Programme development

Timeline

Data Privacy & Protection Specilist

Schneider Electric
11.2019 - Current

SAP GRC Consultant

Schneider Eletric
11.2013 - 11.2018

Support Centre Analyst

Schneider Eeletric
10.2011 - 10.2013

Certificate of Higher Education -

Dav Public School

Foundation Degree in Science -

Raghunathjew College

Bachelor in Bioinformatics -

IASE Deemed Univercity
Taposh Parida