Project Accounting

SivaKumar S. ******@*****.***

Solution Architect – Oracle Project Accounting & Manufacturing +1-650-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished Solution Architect with 15+ years of experience implementing Oracle Projects Costing, Billing and Project Manufacturing for Global Organizations

Provides insight, guidance, and recommendations throughout the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining and leveraging a comprehensive understanding of how current processes influences business operations across the enterprise.

Industry expert in Hitech, Manufacturing and Engineering & Construction industries, with in-depth knowledge of processes and best practices.

Able to anticipate and resolve the tactical issues involved in planning and implementing major initiatives while ensuring the delivery of strategic business results.

Oracle EBS Experience

Project Accounting (Costing & Billing) and Project Manufacturing - 15+ Years

10.7, 11i, R12 and Fusion Cloud - 15+ Years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UL – Solution Architect Apr 2020 – Oct 2020

FLSmidth – Solution Architect May 2017 – Mar 2020

Infosys – Principal Consultant Oct 2013 – Oct 2016

Silverspring Networks – Senior Business Analyst Feb 2010 – Oct 2013

Project Partners – Principal Consultant Aug 2004 – Feb 2010

Quest America – Functional Lead Dec 1997 – Aug 2004

EXPERIENCE DETAILS

Underwriter Laboratories, Denmark

Project Costing and Project Billing R12 rollout for three newly acquired companies

Lead rolling out of Project Costing and Project Billing for three newly acquired companies having global operations across 8 countries.

Realigning business processes across laboratories, clean energy and advisory services to meet the needs of different units and systems, by standardizing the processes across units.

Designed the interface process across the three systems, where leads are created in Sales Force, Projects in Oracle Projects and PSA in FinancialForce.

Lead the Project, Funding, Invoice and Revenue conversion and reconciled with Business.

FLSmidth, Denmark

Led the global business transformation for Denmark based engineering company, operating in more than 50 countries in different regions and across multiple business units (Capital, After Market, Spares and Service divisions)

Oracle Projects Costing, Billing and Project Manufacturing R12 Rollouts globaly:

Lead the rollout of Oracle Project Costing, Billing and Project Manufacturing for Canada and Mexico using the current R12 system.

Led workshop and CRP sessions in South Africa to understand the South Africa business and defined process differences for Material Handling business. Created a blue print for Material handling business

Performed feasibility analysis to replace Maximo system to Oracle Projects and Manufacturing in Egypt for their Operations and Maintenance business.

Enhanced the revenue recognition extension to include performance obligation based POC revenue recognition method.

For the UK business, evaluated two options - 1. Merging UK aftermarket orders with Denmark and Capital orders with Austria Vs 2. Implementing new version of Project Accounting in UK entity. Presented the comparison and benefits of each option.

Merged two US entities, which were in two different Operating Units and Legal Entities into one.

Led the functional testing of migrating on-premise Oracle application to cloud infrastructure. Coordinated with business leads and technology systems team to create the test cases, perform UAT and rollout.

Led the integration of new Oracle Procurement Cloud to the existing R12 Oracle Projects and Financial systems.

INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES

Led Oracle Project Accounting implementations by providing Solution Architecture and managing Implementation team.

Led the implementation of Oracle Cloud PPM for a Marketing Company, using simplified, best-practice processes, standardized across the business groups and countries.

Led the implementation of Oracle Projects Accounting and manufacturing for a leading ATM manufacturing company. As the company was transitioning into a Service Oriented business model, the solution had to be robust to handle Professional Services, Managed Services, Installation and Integration Services.

Designed a custom Billing solution to combine different services and bill based on the terms of the contract. Created standard business process across the different groups to use the best practices from Hi-tech industry to the maximum extent.

Worked closely with the sales team to submit a proposal to implement Oracle Projects for a global digital security company. Provided a winning solution option and estimate for a multi-year global implementation.

Presented solution architecture of an integrated services solution for a large networking company for better managing their combined services.

SILVERSPRING NETWORKS, CA

Led the Business Process Architecture and IT solution implementation of Oracle Project Accounting for Products & Services Group to support growth of the startup company

Worked closely with Project Management, Sales Operations, and Sales Forecast teams to understand the process dependencies and implemented solution to compare planned vs. actual and better forecast at regional, customer, project and product levels.

Finance was able to track costs and revenue at project/contract/customer levels and was able to report more accurate P&L.

Evaluated Oracle Resource Management for capacity planning of resources for the Services organization and presented the recommended approach.

Worked with Revenue Team on managing GAAP vs. Non-GAAP revenue with the current infra-structure and evaluated Revenue Recognition solutions for the future

PROJECT PARTNERS, CA

Led implementation of Oracle Project Accounting solutions to achieve business-critical initiatives and guaranteeing successful completion of project engagements.

Implemented Project Manfacturing for an engineering company. Reengineered business process and implemented solution changes to apply progress from the manufacturing to the project management. This helped the client to have more predictable and realistic forecasting and recognition.

Performed Cost Benefit analysis of implementing Oracle Resource Management tool for a Hi-Tech company the services and product groups. Provided different approach for their Services and products division where Service is more resource driven.

Led the Solution Architecture of project management information system (PMIS) for Construction arm of a Government for more efficient delivery of their portfolio of projects. Provided a Business Process centric model across functional areas to optimize and view the return on investment

Solution designed and tested excel based UIAPPS product for budgeting and forecasting in Oracle. The Excel based tool allowed the Project Managers to view KPIs across Financial and Scheduling data.

Led the implementation of Project costing and project management for one of the Mining Companies to manage their Capital Projects. Created a pilot program for two countries that had smaller operations and a majority of common practices to show proof of concept.

Implemented best in class” Professional Services Automation (PSA) for one of the major Credit Card companies to support the growth of its advisors group and address their business needs. Achieved the goal of satisfying four different business units’ diverse needs through detailed requirements process and implementation of a phased approach.

QUEST AMERICA, CA

Completed three full life cycle implementation of Financial and Project Accounting Systems for Professional Services, Consumer Packaged goods and Data Storage Management companies.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bangalore University, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics.

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