Manikantan R

• Lead PMO Operations for Banking, Insurance and Mining Clients within Business Consulting and Technology Consulting Service Lines.
• Spearhead the Learning & Development, Governance and Workforce Enablement initiatives for the Competency.
• Established dedicated process trainer on End-To-End Project Business Life Cycle and mentor New Hires on key Business Strategies ensuring sustainable learning throughout the tenure of the team members.
• Trusted Engagement Financial Advisor for key accounts encompassing Global Engagement Revenue of $100mn.
• Leading and managing team of 18 professionals from diverse backgrounds and skill sets, fostering a culture of collaboration, growth and excellence.
• Lead the Competency's Bengaluru location with key focus on optimum utilization, compliance with organization's key guidelines and align the location to overall competency's Business Development strategies.

Accomplishments:

• Implementation of Process optimization project, achieving key milestones on time and under budget, resulting in 18.5% increase in annual profitability.
• Hold several accolades from APAC, EMEIA and Americas' Client Service teams for resilient Communication and Stakeholder Management.

• Led PMO operations for portfolio of Biotech and Pharmaceutical Clients for Audit Partners and Managing Directors.
• Design and develop custom Pricing Models at the commencement of engagement, factoring the recommended resource mix, revenue and costs to optimize profitability.
• Continually monitor the financial metrics such as revenue, cost and margin on the engagements, flag the fluctuations in comparison to budgets and mitigate the potential risks to derive targeted margin.
• Led a diverse team of Project Coordinators enabling active discussions on Project Status, Priorities and developing high performing teams to achieve project goals.
• Initiate roll forward and Business Development communications to Americas' Audit Leadership to penetrate EFA business into larger capacity.

Accomplishments:

• Innovated and transformed Emerging Growth Clients in EFA business and converted them into potential wins

• Played a pivotal role in the SAP Mercury Engagement Life-Cycle Implementation across the India Global Delivery Centres and the United States.
• Entrusted with the role of Change Management Coordinator & supported the Global Delivery Services (GDS) Program Mercury Change Management for Client Servers.
• Facilitated the Mercury Business Cycle End-User trainings for Client Servers – PPMDs and Senior Managers across various locations in the United States.
• Instituted process for identifying and training the Subject Matter Resources (SMRs) to sustain Mercury Business Life-Cycle learnings in different Service Lines.
• Actively coordinate and support the post Mercury solution deployment activities from the GDS centres and provide recommendations for the overall process improvements.

Accomplishments:

• Identified as the Pilot Resource by the GDS leadership to participate in the Mercury ‘Train-The-Trainer’ program in the United States.

• End-to-End Project Lifecycle Management of Time & Materials and Fixed Fee projects
• Update budgets and manage revenue forecast
• Project Updates & Revenue Accruals for all projects in Europe region
• Bill Rate set-up, SOW validation and Resource Management
• Billing and finalization of invoices of all projects in Europe region
• Financial Reporting for Senior Leadership

Accomplishments:

• Raised several process improvement ideas to facilitate efficiency and costing

• End-to-End Project Lifecycle Management of consulting projects including Funding, Revenue Recognition, and Invoicing
• Manage Procurement, Time entries, Costing, Payment, Revenue & Invoicing
• Revenue recognition and financial reporting
• Collaborate with GL, AR and AP teams to facilitate post project closure activities
• Project Funding & Revenue recognition for SaaS (Software as a Service) Cloud Consulting deals

Accomplishments:

• Received various On-shore recognitions for Exceptional Client Service