Manufacturing Cost Management Consultant

Job Summary

• The consultant should be able to own the Oracle Cloud Manufacturing & Cost Management track and drive various phases of the project such as Cloud Map, CRP, design, build, testing, cut-over and go-live support.
• Must display competency and should be able to configure the Oracle Cloud Manufacturing & Cost Management modules (Work Orders, Work Definitions, Item Structures / BOMs, Work Centers, Resources, Standard Costing, Actual Costing, Cost Scenarios, Cost Rollup, Overhead Absorption, Landed Cost Management, etc.).
• Candidate must be a problem solver with good analytical and communication skills, capable of translating complex manufacturing and costing business requirements into Oracle Cloud Manufacturing & Cost Management configurations.
• Candidate should work closely with offshore functional and technical teams to keep track of project deliverables, open issues, and milestone adherence across the Manufacturing & Cost Management workstream.
• Candidate must own deliverables like RTM (Requirement Traceability Matrix), To-Be design, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, DS030 (Configuration Document), AN100 (Design Document), and Manufacturing & Cost Management solution design specifications.
• Should work closely with manufacturing, finance, and other dependent departments and client-side roles such as Production Managers, Cost Accountants, Manufacturing Engineers, Plant Controllers, Bill of Materials Owners, and Resource Planners.
• Will be responsible for configuring Oracle Cloud Manufacturing parameters including Manufacturing Plants, Work Centers, Resources (Labour, Machine, Overhead), Work Definitions, Standard Operations, Item Structures (BOMs), Production Exceptions, Discrete and Process Manufacturing work order types, and Output Items (co-products and by-products) to support the client’s production execution model.
• Is responsible to work closely with the Project Manager on both Cognizant and Client sides, as well as with other functional consultants across Procurement, Inventory, Supply Chain Planning, Maintenance (EAM), Accounts Payable, and General Ledger workstreams for cross-module process alignment and cost accounting integration.
• Candidate must have proven experience in handling CEMLI objects and related documents, including Manufacturing & Cost Management-specific extensions such as custom cost component mapping, overhead rate rule overrides, and production reporting customisations.
• Is responsible to design integrations with legacy and third-party systems such as Oracle EBS WIP/BOM/Cost modules, MES (Manufacturing Execution Systems), shop-floor data collection terminals, laboratory information systems (LIMS), and Oracle Fusion General Ledger for cost accounting distributions using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC).
• Is responsible for validating manufacturing and cost master data migrated from legacy systems (Oracle EBS WIP, BOM, Cost Management) into Oracle Cloud, performing data reconciliation for Item Structures, Work Definitions, Cost Scenarios, Item Costs (material, resource, overhead), and opening WIP balances during FBDI-based data loads.
• Should be able to configure end-to-end Cost Management parameters including Cost Organisations, Cost Books, Cost Methods (Standard Cost, Actual Cost / FIFO / AVCO), Cost Scenarios, Cost Rollup, Resource Rates, Overhead Absorption rules, Landed Cost allocation methods, and period-end cost close procedures.
• Should be coordinating with the Procurement consultant for purchase price variance (PPV) and invoice price variance (IPV) accounting, the Inventory consultant for inventory valuation and material transactions costing, and the General Ledger consultant for cost accounting distributions, WIP accounting and period-close journal entries.
• Must be able to design Manufacturing & Cost Management-related OTBI reports and BI Publisher reports as per business requirements, covering areas such as standard vs. actual cost variance analysis, work order cost summary, resource utilisation, overhead absorption variances, landed cost allocation, inventory valuation by cost book, and period-close cost accounting distributions; validate them with users and iteratively test and deploy successfully.
• Is responsible to design and deliver manufacturing-facing and finance-facing documents such as Work Order Traveller, Production Pick List, Component Issue Slip, Work Order Completion Report, Cost Variance Report, and Period-End Cost Close Summary using Oracle Cloud document generation and BI Publisher.
• Candidate will be responsible to design and deliver the “Train the Trainer” plan and schedule for all Manufacturing & Cost Management module users, including Production Managers, Manufacturing Engineers, Cost Accountants, Plant Controllers, and Inventory Analysts.