SUMMARY:

Top performing, highly qualified, goal focused SAP Security Administrator with 20+ years of comprehensive expertise in SAP coordination, implementation, and support. An outstanding problem solver with a history of success developing solutions and directing a wide range of IS initiatives, as well as planning and implementing systems solutions to contribute to the achievement of immediate and long - term business objectives. An outstanding communicator, capable of building, training, and leading cross-functional teams, and collaborating across all organizational levels. Expertise in a wide variety of modules, including (SAP ERP Modules) FICO,MM, SD, HR, PP, PS, QM, PM. (SAP Business Suite Applications) CRM, SRM, PLM, HANA, GRC, SEM, VIRSA, CUA, as well as Bizrights and Security Weaver GRC systems.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

SAP Information Security

User/Role Management

Staff Training & Mentoring

SAP Authorizations

Project Management

Infrastructure Management

Security Role Testing

Process Improvements

Sarbanes Oxley Requirements

Security & Technical Advising

Policy Development

Performance Tuning

SAP Security Assessments

Quality Control

System Implementation

BW Analysis

Complex Problem Resolution

Requirements Definition

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Glendale, AZ

SAP SECURITY/CONTROLS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Utilize extensive SAP Security knowledge across multiple contracts for a diverse clientele in the performance of SAP Financial Reporting, Order-to-cash, Purchase-to-pay cycles, and preparation for/resolution of SAP SOX audits.
• Consistently promote engagement of user community to identify and understand requirements to provide responsive and detailed SAP Security analysis and solutions on time and on budget.
• Demonstrate expertise in assessing security, and building and maintaining authorizations and roles.
• Strategically troubleshoot authorization issues, review GRC rule sets, determine access requirements, eliminate SOD conflicts, and maintain SU24.
• Provide in-depth consultation regarding new implementation and upgrades.
• Successfully completed extensive SAP security project on ECC, GRC and BW systems, with duties including review of SAP security assessments and SAP GRC Rule Set to indentify GAPs, recommend upgrades (EHP4 - EHP8 and NW 7.01 - NW 7.5), and contribute to end analysis reports.
• Compared user access against proposed business roles, ensuring all users maintained access during conversion from technical to business role assignments.
• Collaborated with business and internal audit teams to develop mitigating controls for SOD issues, determine requirements and remove non-critical transactions, and develop test scripts to validate capability daily function performance.
• Successfully resolved user IDs missing e-mail addresses, and reviewed all composite roles to ensure correct single roles contained.
• Coordinated with development team to implement mass unused role delete program, and set US licensing information on all user IDs.

Confidential, Cleveland, OH

SME

Responsibilities:

• Performed annual SAP license audits, and played a key role in resolving issues during annual transaction audit.
• Supported resolution of SAP ECC, BW, CRM and HR security issues, as well as testing and go-live phases of two new business units with SAP ECC, BW and HR.
• Trained controls team on SAP security processes and tools, including SUIM, SU24 and GRC reports.
• Facilitated Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) audit activities to certify financial information accuracy. Identified and eliminated over 90% of high SOD issues.
• Supported ECC, HR, CRM, BW, global rollout of new PLM, and testing phase of 2 new business units, including security issue identification and resolution.
• Collaborated with HR business analysts to determine access limits to sensitive data, updated customer transactions in SU24 per trace.
• Identified documents and transactions to be utilized during rollout of PLM/DMS project, and created a plan of action to address issues reported during critical transaction audit.
• Resolved security issues for SAP (SU53, ST01, RSECADMIN), and identified key issues for critical and SOX audits.

SAP SECURITY/CONTROLS ANALYST

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored junior SAP security team member, and designed and implemented BW roles and analysis authorizations.
• Wrote documentation and resolved issues to support functional unit testing and final go-live testing, assisted in troubleshooting ECC role issues, and gathered requirements for BW support roles.
• Evaluated SAP security resources and created and effective training plan.
• Established GRC rule set and reviewed landscape on required skill set to improve team performance.
• Reviewed 2013 SOX audit to outstanding issues.
• Created and implemented BW roles and authorizations for Confidential, and provided direct support for testing and go-live activities.
• Created new global printer roles, and played a key role in GRC upgrade to verify firefighter use. Tested and verified GRC rule set and resolved authorization issues.
• Delivered stopgap SAP security support, and collaborated with development teams to determine project requirements.
• Designed, configured and deployed project access to CRM, ECC, and BW HANA systems, and defined CRM display roles for business users.
• Successfully trained junior SAP support member, and removed unused roles from system landscape.
• Built new firefighter roles and new SAP security roles for business unit sold to third party.
• Ensured efficient response to SAP security requests, and developed/improved security controls.