SARFRAZ MOHAMMED

  • SAP Security/GRC Analyst
  • Phoenix, AZ
  • Member Since May 10, 2023

Candidates About

 

 

 Sarfraz Mohammed  

Professional Summary:  

·         10+ Years of extensive experience as an ERP consultant

·         Exceptional communication & interpersonal skills

·         Experience with R/3 releases versions:

o    ECC5.0 & ECC6.0

o    various modules like MM, PP, SD, FI, CO,

o    familiarity of BI, BOBJ, BPC and CRM

·         Skilled in using CUA, HANA Studio (User Mgmt.), Oracle IDM (User provisioning)

·         Expert user administration through the use of SU01, SU10

·         Expert in role development using profile generator (PFCG)

·         Extensive experience with best practices using SU24

·         Experienced and strong with Security audits, SOX Section 404 compliance

·         Assisted in running reports in of SAP GRC Component Compliance Calibrator

·         Worked closely with functional consultants for evaluation of requirements and defining, developing and testing the roles.

 

Technical Skills

ERP: mySAP ERP ECC 6.0, ECC 5.0, SAP R/3 4.7, 4.6C, 4.6A/B, 4.0B, SAP Netweaver 2004s, SAP Enterprise Portal 7.0, 6.0, 5.0, CRM, BI 7.0, HANA Studio, Solution Manager, Virsa Compliance Calibrator, Approva BizRights. GRC 10.1.

 

Certification: C_HANATEC141 Technology Associate –SAP HANA

                               C_GRCAC_10- SAP Business Objects Access Control 10.0 – SAP GRC

 

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/razmohammed86/

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

SAP Security/GRC Analyst

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

Sep. 2017 – Present

 

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and supporting SAP roles and user administration

• Collaborate with business process owners and other project teams to configure and manage SAP profiles and roles to meet the business needs

• Align SAP security profile authorizations with Sarbanes/Oxley controls to ensure compliance with Segregation of Duties (SOD) while providing the minimum access required meeting business needs

• Manage user administration utilizing SU01 and SU10 (mass changes) in creating, copying, deleting, locking, unlocking users and provisioning roles.

• Utilize SE16 and SUIM to retrieve various data.

• Utilize SU24 to enable / disable security checks.

• Generate transports for security to move profiles and roles to the proper clients

• User creation and assignment of roles

• Analyzing SU53/ST01 reports

 

 

SAP Security/GRC Analyst
Avnet Inc. Phoenix, AZ
Sept. 2016 – Oct. 2017

Responsibilities:

·         Managing business profiles through GRC by running simulations and analyzing open risks.

·         Granting FireFighter access by ensuring ‘owner/control’ are assigned to a FF ID.

·         Ensured all SOD violations are resolved through either: mitigation, remediation or identifying a false positive.

·         Extensively using RAR tool to ensure end-users’ access not violating SODs.

·         Troubleshooting Role-based authorizations by using SU53/ST01 in a timely manner.

·         Creating and managing profiles in PFCG and supporting UAT testing.

·         Extensively using SCC1 to ‘copy client’ profiles to support test modifications.

·         Used STMS to transport profiles from DEV to QUA system for testing purposes.

·         Assisting with password resets and account lock/unlock.

·         Providing SAP developer/object keys access through SAP Marketplace.

·         Granting analytic privileges to end-users in SAP HANA studio.

·        Utilizing RS2HANA_GEN to expose objects in Native HANA.

·        Used stored procedure for the assignment of repository privileges in HANA studio.

·        Used SM59 and SPRO to create RFC plug-ins with GRC backend system.

SAP Security Analyst/ Project lead
KONE Inc. Moline, IL
August 2014- July 2016

Responsibilities:

·         Extensively used ARA to simulate and analyzed open risks.

·         Ensured all SOD violations were resolved through either: mitigation, remediation or identifying a false positive.

·         Assisted GRC team with the create/adjust rule set to meet the needs of the business.

·         Utilized Mitigation tab to update existing mitigating controls and create new mitigating.

·         Supported daily-production issues and ensure that the tickets are under SLA

·         Managed all authorizations escalations and provided tier 3 support to WIPRO off-shore team

·         Extensively used SUIM to process reports for the business

·         Utilized SU01 to reset passwords, assign roles, and create/maintain/copy users

·         Used PFCG to create single, composite, master and derived roles

·         Troubleshot backend role failures using ST01

·         Developed FSCM (Financial Supply Chain Management) roles for all the units and assisted in the entire implementation cycle

·         Led all Security tasks in the migration project from 4.6C to 6.0.

-Blueprint, architecture, development, integration testing, UAT, and Go-live

·         Ran LSMW for the mass profiles and password assignments to the end-users

·         Monitored iDocs via SCUL

·         Assigned backed profiles for HR users in SAP and grouped the users for ESS and MSS access.

·         Created analysis authorizations through the use of RSECADMIN

·         Assigned previously created authorizations to roles through S_RS_AUTH

·         Modified roles in BW through PFCG (S_RS_COMP)

·         Traced failing authorizations for BI users through RSECADMIN

·         Created mass end-users and added to ‘Groups’ in UME/SAP IDM portal.

·         Assigned privileges to the roles and granted the roles to the users

·         Restricted the access on the role and object levels.

·         Activated/Deactivated users

·         Managed the users by locking/unlocking the access, reset passwords

·         Direct access to individual users to SAP HANA database.

 

SAP Security Administrator

AmeriGas LP, King of Prussia, PA

June’ 14 – Aug 14.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Providing production support on day-day basis in ITSM and HPQC ticketing system.
  • Responsible for creating transport through PFCG and SE10.
  • Performing SOD checks for all PRD users with Approva BizRights tool.
  • Converting characteristics Info. Object to Auth. Relevant in BI 7.0 using RSD1.
  • Assigning the Analysis Authorizations access to users using the authorization object S_RS_AUTH.
  • Performing User master maintenance such as creating new users, assigning roles, deleting users, renaming users, resetting password, Lock/unlock User ID using transaction code SU01

 

SAP Security Analyst

Becton and Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Dec’ 13-June 14

 

Responsibilities:

  • Running eCATT scripts to assign roles to new /existing users.
  • Creating SAP roles in the development, test, and training environments using Profile Generator (PFCG).
  • Responsible for creating user IDs based on a standard naming convention, setting up of new users,
  • Modified user accounts, resetting passwords, locking and unlocking user IDs.
  • Performed SOD checks for all PRD users with Compliance Calibrator 4.0/5.3 toolset (RAR).
  • Responsible for War Room support, issue remediation during Cutover simulation with critical resolution times
  • Promoted best practice, leveraging domestic implementation, documentation and procedures
  • Worked with development and business users to identify authorization requirements. Designed and created authorization roles and created custom authorization objects/groups.
  • Use of Active Directory (AD) to add userids-to-groups,
  • Coordinated build and cleanup of test userids prior to rollout,
  • Pre-implementation Production Support for Early Access userids.    
  • Supported Go-Live phase from May 5th-May 25th. Systems used are: BI, CRM, ECC, EWM, GTS, PI, SRM, SCM, and Solution Manager.

 

 

SAP Security Administrator

Wyndham Hotel Groups                 

Feb’11-Oct’ 13

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in initial design/development/testing phases, testing, and go live of ECC end user security roles

·         Developed templates for requirements gathering and worked with functional teams on master/single role(s) design. Templates: R2TM (Role to transaction mapping) sheet, Authorization Input sheet.

·         Conducted workshops to drive Master/Single role/Derived/Composite role(s) design.

·         Supported unit testing, integration test cycle and coordinated defect resolution.

·         Effectively analyzed trace files and tracked missing authorizations for user’s access problems.

·         Used SAP GRC Access Control v5.3 Risk Analysis and Remediation tool to define SOD violations

·         Analyzed all customer programs and transaction codes for authority checks.

·         Recommended and implemented values for profile parameters for controlling Password rules, logon rules, established monitoring process for inactive user's unsuccessful logons.

·         Communicated with Business Process owners to obtain approvals for Security changes.

·         Worked on SAP Check indicator Defaults and field values, reduced the scope of authorization checks using transaction SU24 and maintained check indicators for transaction codes.

·         Maintained and formulated the procedures for the Role Repository database.

·         Followed the established standards and naming conventions as dictated for the Clients security schema.

·         Analyzed Root Cause of Authorization Problems and fix the missing authorizations.

·         Worked with CUA (SCUL and SCUM), and  standards which makes more flexible to work with large number of users to update their roles and profiles across the landscape.

·         Developed use cases (for example, descriptions of the user's interaction with the system), customer scenarios, and/or prototypes (for example, demos) and be heavily involved in testing and troubleshooting the application.

 

SAP Security Analyst

JSR Micro Electronics, Sunnyvale, CA
Feb ‘09 - Dec ‘10

Responsibilities:

● Worked with Profile Generator (PFCG) in creating roles, profiles, composite roles, and derived roles.                                                              

● Responsible for day-to-day transport support for moving Roles from one client to another client within the same system using transaction code PFCG, SE10, and SCC1.

● Developed derived roles for FI by converting certain fields to organizational level fields.

● Used SeCATT script for mass generation of roles and user assignments.

● Assisted users with access problems and questions using SUIM, ST01, and SU53.

● Performed reconciliation of user master record and roles using PFUD and SUPC.

● Worked with respective functional heads for SOD tools & security changes based on SOX violations at T-code level & object level.

● Created over 700 job roles in SD, FI, MM, WM, PP and transporting them to QA and Production.
Ran system audits to detect deviations of established procedures, role mapping, and unauthorized changes to the SAP security and report finding to management.

Analyzed users and roles through GRC v5.3 RAR tool by running SOD reports in Transaction and Authorization level.

Supported BI S_RS_Auth info. objects in PFCG.

Secured SAP* user by changing the parameter in RZ11.

 

SAP Security Administrator

Anthro Corp, Tualatin, OR                        

March’07- Jan ’09

 

Responsibilities:

·         Created users, maintained User Master Data, established security policies and Procedures.

·         Managed security operations on SAP clients (SAP R/3, and CRM).

·         Ran reports in Virsa Compliance Calibrator from different functional areas to ensure all roles were compliant.

·         Supported Internal security audits in the production system every month.

·         Created Firefighter User, designed and assigned Firefighter roles, Firefighter logs activities, Critical operation Alerts and etc.

·         Worked on SAP Check Indicator Defaults, Field values, and maintained check indicators for Transaction codes using (SU24) for authorization objects.

·         Created & managed the scheduling of batch jobs working with T-Codes SU53 and SUIM for giving user access.

 

Education: B.S.: University of California, Davis. Graduated 2008