Venkata Durga Prasad Koppanathi
SAP Security And GRC Consultant
Hyderabad
Summary
- Growth-oriented SAP Security and GRC Consultant with 8 years of experience in seamlessly integrating SAP systems into business practices. Collaborative educator building relationships with varying business units and driving growth through IT-based solutions. Thoughtful troubleshooter, providing comprehensive solutions to systemic issues
- Proven expertise in S/4 HANA 1809 and SAP GRC engagements. Strong understanding of Business process and SOD
- Proficient in capturing client specifications and understanding business imperatives. Playing the role of subject matter expert for SAP Security and SAP GRC Access Control
- Involved in end to end delivery of S/4 HANA 1809 and Fiori implementation by requirement gathering, blueprinting, role design along with hyper care support
- Has done 1 full lifecycle end-to-end implementation in S/4HANA 1809
- Has done 2 SAP SOD Roles and Authorization redesigns
- Subject matter expert in SAP security role design. Supported multiple POC's, RFP and Demo's
- Good knowledge of SAP audit and security controls
- Provided end-to-end solution delivery along with planning, design, execution, customer support and audit compliance
- Worked closely with Internal Control Team on SOX Compliance for all the roles developed as part of SAP Implementation
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
SAP GRC Specialist
Carlsberg Group
Copenhagen
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Subject Matter Expert that has global responsibility for SAP GRC Access Control within Carlsberg SAP landscape
- Accountable for setting SAP GRC roadmap through technical leadership, project execution, communication and collaboration
- Guide security, role and authorization design, architecture and optimization
- Conducted requirement gathering workshops with business process owners and external teams
- Collaborated with business process owners to adjust SAP authorizations that meet business requirements
- Utilizing SAP GRC AC capabilities at full-scale for process automation and ticket reduction
- Extend SAP GRC solution to cover on-premise and cloud solution
- Managed offshore SAP Authorization team of 15 associates
- Manage SAP Access Service Catalog within ServiceNow
- Suggested ticket reduction initiatives and business satisfaction improvements by utilizing automations
- Coordinate SAP Access Risk reporting, monitoring and risk reduction initiatives
- Establish process to manage, develop and maintain the Carlsberg SoD ruleset which supports huge SAP Landscape
- Support internal, external ERP audits and closed 4 critical audit findings
SAP Security and GRC Lead Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Krakow
07.2019 - 12.2021
- Customer - APTIV | Bluefield SAP S4/HANA 1809 Implementation
- Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties.
- Involved in Plan & Design for S/4 HANA, MDG, Fiori role design and development along with GRC Integration
- Working closely with Business and Functional teams to identify business role requirement with different transaction codes and Fiori Apps
- Upgraded the existing GRC 10.1 to GRC 12.0 and configured Access Control components
- Test strategy readiness for business role testing and test script preparation using HP-ALM
- Updated GRC ruleset for any changes made to existing functions and risks
- Conducting end user trainings on usage of GRC tool and access request process
- Participate in SAP audit discussions, questions and help resolve the SoD issues
- Contribute to developing remediation strategies to SAP security-related audit exceptions or SoD issues
- Work with internal audit and Compliance Manager to evaluate Segregation of Duties conflicts and consult with business units in reducing the SoD conflicts
SAP Security and GRC Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Hyderabad
06.2015 - 06.2019
- Customer - APTIV | Company Divestiture, Convergence, Rollouts and SAP ECC Upgrade
- Experienced in Divestiture projects (Logical and Physical separation), convergence projects from Legacy systems to ECC, global rollouts from Security perspective, which includes following activities
- Company Divestiture Projects:
- Conducting workshops with business and functional teams to gather organization structure and custom transaction code requirements
- New role design and development to support logical separation, making sure users are restricted to access the other company
- Working closely with business SME to identify insecure transaction codes and remediate transaction code and roles accordingly
- Test script preparation for thorough testing of remediated transaction codes
- Configuring GRC AC accordingly to support operations of two companies
- User clean-up activity
- Working with internal audit team by supporting them with required reports and answering queries related to role design and user clean-up
- Physical separation project - GRC AC has to configured completely as per the customer requirement which includes making changes to FFIDs, SRA, Email Notifications
- Convergence Projects:
- End to End Security implementation for convergence projects from Legacy to ECC
- User role matrix preparation as per the job function
- Role analysis against SoD ruleset and making sure user assignment is SoD compliant
- User clean-up in legacy systems
- SAP ECC Upgrade
- Involved in profile-generator upgrade from SAP R/3 4.6C to ECC 6.0 EHP7
- Performed complete analysis and identified the areas that are potentially impacted due to upgrade
- Impacted t-code and roles are remediated accordingly after consulting with value streams
SAP Security Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Hyderabad
04.2014 - 05.2015
- Used profile generator (PFCG) for creating single, composite and derived roles in ERP Systems
- User administration and role development as per customer requirement
- Worked on SU24 changes for custom transaction code development
- Analyzing user authorization issues and suggesting the required roles or making role modifications after seeking necessary approvals
- Resolving the authorization issues and user access requests within SLA
SAP Basis Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
Mumbai
05.2013 - 04.2014
- Customer - Adobe Systems Inc.
- Monitoring background jobs and identifying root cause for failed jobs
- Analyzing system logs, short dumps, lock entries, update errors and work process distribution
- Monthly dashboard preparation with metrics related planned/unplanned downtime, response time of critical transactions,DB growth
- Starting/Stopping SAP App/DB during planned downtime
Supporting major product release - Moving transports to Production environment and monitor system post movement - Performing index rebuild activity in SAP/Oracle environment prior to business quarter
- Applying ST-PI, ST/A-PI Support pack updates in ABAP stack
Creating S-User IDs in Service market place and registering developer/object access keys
Education
Master of Technology -
JNTUH College of Engineering
Hyderabad, TG 01.2010 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Technology -
Mahaveer Institute of Science And Technology
Hyderabad, TG 01.2006 - 01.2010
Skills
- SAP MDG
Timeline
SAP GRC Specialist
Carlsberg Group
01.2022 - 05.2022
SAP Security and GRC Lead Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
07.2019 - 12.2021
SAP Security and GRC Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
06.2015 - 06.2019
SAP Security Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
04.2014 - 05.2015
SAP Basis Administrator
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
05.2013 - 04.2014
Master of Technology -
JNTUH College of Engineering
01.2010 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Technology -
Mahaveer Institute of Science And Technology
01.2006 - 01.2010
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 20 in the implementation of S/4 HANA.
- Successfully configured, prepared and executed test scripts for SAP GRC Upgrade.
- Successfully completed SAP Convergence and Divestiture projects.
- Supervised team of 5 staff members.
Hobbies
CrossFit
Olympic Weightlifting
Winter Swimming
Hobbies
CrossFit
Olympic Weightlifting
Winter Swimming
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