Nitish Kumar
Manager PMO - Cost Controller (CAPEX/OPEX) || Nxtra by Airtel
Summary
Manager with over 7+ years of extensive experience in the Telecom & Data Centre industries. Adept in project and program management, project planning and coordination, budget tracking, risk identification and mitigation, and sourcing.
Looking for a position in a resourceful environment, in the field of Datacenter Infrastructure (Project Management), where I can get the opportunity to use my experience, academic, an practical skills and contribute to the professional development of the organization.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager PMO (Data Center Infra Build)
Nxtra by Airtel
06.2024 - Current
- Budget Preparation and Financial Management: Prepared budgets for Data Centre projects, including CAPEX projections. Monitored financial performance and ensured alignment with budgetary constraints.
- Project Planning and Scheduling: Prepared detailed project plans and managed schedules. Identified and highlighted risks with potential to impact delivery timelines, implementing mitigation strategies.
- Supply Chain Coordination and Partner Onboarding: Coordinated with supply chain for onboarding of partners. Supported the entire onboarding process to ensure seamless integration.
- Contractor Management and Compliance: Closely monitored contractors and ensured compliance with agreements. Managed adherence to regulatory and contractual obligations.
- Audit Management: Handled both internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with all regulations and standards.
Asst. Manage - PMO (EDGE & Data Center Projects)
Nxtra Data Ltd. (A Bharti Airtel Group Company)
9 2020 - 06.2024
- Capex Management of all the EDGE and Data Center Projects
- Forecasting the spend, reporting actual vs planned, benchmarking compared to the business plan etc
- Monitor and control the project schedules submitted by partners/Project managers, identify risks dependencies, critical activities
- Tracking & reporting till mitigation
- Prepare the management dashboard and review presentations for week/ monthly and quarterly reviews
- Monitor, maintain and drive plan vs actual against defined KPIs
- Engaging with cross functional teams to ensure their actions are tracked and close in timely manner
- Handling End to End ordering, Addition, disconnection, Billing, Payment of Colocation and Cross Connect to Third Party on monthly basis
- Manage the projects life cycle as per the defined parameters
- Support project managers on the ground to activities needing help from Central/corporate office
- Prioritized and align resource towards overall business goals & objectives
- Creation of project scope, request for proposals, and capital requests
- Recording and reporting key metrics to team members and management
- Validation of Network traffic charged to Business team on customer revenue for all product (ANG, TNG, MPLS, IPLC)
- Validation of customer LSI and ask group company team (Network team) for rate revision if applicable as per the signed agreement
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations and decisions.
Opex Executive- Product & development
Bharti Airtel Limited
08.2016 - 09.2020
- Validation of partner invoices in system (Circuit ID, Invoice amount, period, duplicate invoice, and Amount mismatch)
- Follow with related user if any details mismatch 'Wrong amount updated in Opex Inventory', Duplicate invoice booked in the system
- OPEX cost validation and get this rate renewal with partner side with effective discount along with SCM team
- Maintaining the OPEX tracker cost wise as per the requirement of Management
- Validation of On-net Network cost in E1 for all Products (ANG, TNG, MPLS Internet), and highlighted the wrongly charged by Network team to Business team
- Responsible to correct these all wrongly tagged E1s in system and ask Network Finance team to share the revise report as per the Order
- Responsible to validate & process the payment of Channel Partner payment (Revenue
- Commission %) as per the signed agreement
- Coordinate with SCM team for new partner registration
- (Partner code, Bank details, Partner Contact details)
- Engaging with cross functional teams (Business, SCM, Finance) to ensure their actions are tracked and close in timely manner
- MIS preparation to provide the dashboard to management on Daily/Monthly basis.
Assocaite - Reporting
Manpower group services India private limited
09.2014 - 07.2016
- Handling the payment of COLO, CC, Power, Internet, MPLS, Govt
- Statutory and Channel Partner payment of all vendors
- To maintain the record & MIS generation for to provide the details
- Engagement of internal stockholders for Opex dispute
- Third party payout management (B2B), Preparation vendor PO reports as per Business needs
- Monthly reporting about Opex to management.
Education
Graduate (B.SC) -
MAGADH UNIVERSITY
Senior Secondary (10+2) -
BSEB
Secondary (10th) -
BSEB
Skills
Project governance
Reporting and Business Analytics
Core Knowledge of ERP Oracle System
Monitoring and Governance
Promotes the attitude that "Nothing is impossible"
Seeks opportunities to contribute to the management of the department
Anticipates well and manages time effectively
Have a sense of urgency to obtain results
Flexible to different working environments
Can efficiently and competently meet the given objectives
Accomplishments
- Awarded by (Nxtra CEO) for Budget tracking mechanism of Running Green field Data Center projects.
- Awarded for Validation of initial all Data center Racks footprint vs customer billing during during covid 19 period. (11 Data Centers).
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1994
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Languages
Hindi
Maithili
Maithili
Timeline
Manager PMO (Data Center Infra Build)
Nxtra by Airtel
06.2024 - Current
Opex Executive- Product & development
Bharti Airtel Limited
08.2016 - 09.2020
Assocaite - Reporting
Manpower group services India private limited
09.2014 - 07.2016
Asst. Manage - PMO (EDGE & Data Center Projects)
Nxtra Data Ltd. (A Bharti Airtel Group Company)
9 2020 - 06.2024
Graduate (B.SC) -
MAGADH UNIVERSITY
Senior Secondary (10+2) -
BSEB
Secondary (10th) -
BSEB
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