SAP Security & Authorizations Consultant

Over 20 years ERP industry experience, he brings  wisdom into building relationships with partners, clients, customers and team members to achieve organizational goals in an effective, postive, value driven manner.
 
Visonary, communicator, integral team player, troubleshooter, problem-solver, single issue resolution point, are the attributed reference synonyms to his personality. He has a process-orientated approach in all efforts.
 
Interested to progress in a managerial position with forward thinking and reputable organizations

Managerial
1.      Creation, management and execution of project plan and detailed efforts using Microsoft Project including articulation all project activities, assignment of activities to resources with relevant due dates
2.      Monitoring and control over project activity, cost and performance

• Creation, maintenance and execution of trackers and task delegation process and tools
• Process analysis and audit on practices and procedures

                                              i.     Establish core effort process in determining Key Performance Indicators and Key Responsibilities Areas

• Maximise resource deployment by identifying, managing & developing resources to achieve desirable value add on deployed resources

3.      Keeping abreast of new legislation, government policy, best-practices for SAP projects, products and resources
4.      Ability to manage, assess and overview situations

• Address escalations from internal and external stakeholders
• Perform Root Cause Analysis on issues ranging from performance drop to disciple and grievance
• Use inherent job experience, knowledge and leverage off team members to address unexpected challenges

5.      Strong stakeholder management experience gained from over 20 projects within composite matrix organizations
6.      Flexibility in understanding wide range of high level business processes in relations to access control and security
7.      Worked in a variety of fields within IT area including telecommunications, postal services, transportations, engineering, medical, pharmaceuticals, retail, fire-fighting, and shipyard
8.      Excellent communication skills, ability to articulate scenarios, issues and provide solutions to business related authorizations and security processes


Competencies
1.      Strong in message formulation and communicating, either verbal and/or written with clients, customers, project team, internal team members, consultants and contractors.
2.      Attention to detail, and process orientated
3.      Technical Competencies
a.  Delivery Management
b.  Project Management
c.   Project planning through post go-live support (security and authorizations)
d.  Great deal of implementation experience  (19 individual roll-outs for security and authorizations)
e.  Security and Authorizations Consultant (Senior/Lead Role/Subject Matter Expert)
f.   BASIS Support and Implementation (Junior/Support Level 1)
g.   ABAP Programmer (Associate)
h.  Training conducted on ADM 940
i.    Managed niche market products that integrate with SAP backend
Experience by skill set
 
SAP skill set:
1.      ABAP: mobile industry, government (postal services), manufacturing, leisure & hospitality
2.      BASIS: manufacturing, telecommunications
3.      S&A Technical Implementation: manufacturing (steel, automotive, electronic, precision engineering, solvents and adhesives, hair care products) maritime, IT software solutions, transportations services
4.      S&A Training: manufacturing, IT software solutions,
5.      Project Management: broadcast service provider, Oil & Gas by product Barcoding solution, Security & Authorizations Solutions implementation (multi-phase)
6.      Managed over 200 plus consultants , 100 of them being SAP Consultants ranging from SAP E2 (junior) level to SAP E5 (Project Manager/Solution Architect) level
 
Managerial skill set:
1.      Ability to overview, monitor, track and advise teams of consultants on value services, ensuring cost to effort performance
2.      Ability to formulate detail plans, prioritize and schedule activities to meet management objectives
3.      Keep updated on most current client organizations management structure as changes in reporting mechanisms impact documentation, legal and procedural efforts
4.      Analyse KPIs and KRAs against consultant performance and handle under-performing consultants
5.       Contract negotiations, consultant rate estimation (rate card generation), for different geographies

 
Generic skill set:
1.      Flexibility in understanding wide range of high level business processes in relations to access control and security
2.      Experience as a lecturer
3.      Worked in a variety of environments outside of SAP within field of IT including pharmaceuticals, retail, fire-fighting, shipyard, etc.
4.      Excellent communication skills, ability to articulate scenarios, issues and provide solutions to SAP authorizations and security related processes
5.      Problem solving skills, and analytical thinking skills
6.      Networking, communication and account management skills