Viswanath Chandran

About Viswanath Chandran

Oracle Certified Fusion Solution Architect with 19+ years of experience in enterprise finance and procurement transformation, including 12+ years in Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials & Procurement. I specialize in leading large, cross-functional teams to deliver complex, multi-country rollouts—from solution design and integrations to data migration, UAT, and post-go-live support. I’ve successfully managed large teams across regions and time zones, ensuring delivery excellence and knowledge transfer. Passionate about automation and innovation, I focus on reducing repetitive technical tasks by building reusable frameworks, accelerators, and AI-driven tools. This includes automating data migration, reconciliation, setup configuration, reporting, and even conversational access to ERP systems. Core strengths: Solution Architecture & Program Delivery (Financials & Procurement Cloud) Leading Large, Diverse Teams Across Geographies Automating ERP Cloud Processes (Data Loads, Configs, Reporting, Reconciliations) Integrations (OIC, SaaS↔PaaS), Cloud Reporting (OTBI, FRS, BI Publisher, SmartView) Generative AI & Chat-based ERP Experiences End-to-End Finance Process Expertise: Procure-to-Pay · Record-to-Report · Asset Lifecycle · Bank Reconciliation · Period Close Publications & Products: GenAI Chat App for Oracle ERP & APEX: Built an LLM-powered assistant for Oracle ERP & APEX that translates natural language into secure SQL queries, retrieves data, and responds in dashboards, PDFs, or Excel. Designed with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), policy guardrails, and role-based security, bringing ChatGPT-like automation to ERP data access. Fusion Cloud POD Configurator | “Soar to Cloud” Automation: Led a large team to build the POD Configurator—automating setup creation in Fusion Cloud by extracting configs from EBS and PeopleSoft. Collaborated with Oracle Product Development and EMEA/JAPAC teams on Soar to Cloud, Oracle’s automated on-premise-to-cloud upgrade suite. Also drove go-to-market planning and enablement. FBDI PreValidator (Accelerated Data Migration): Automated pre-validation of FBDI files against live master data, ensuring error-free migration. Reduced load failures and sped up project cutovers. Bank Statement Loader (Any Bank → Fusion Cloud): Designed a universal automation to ingest and reconcile bank statements in any format directly into Fusion Cloud—removing manual uploads and cutting reconciliation cycles.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Consultant

   Oracle

   Nov 2013 — Present · Bangalore, IN

Education

• Government College of Technology Coimbatore

  BE

  2002 — 2006

• St Josephs Hr Sec School - Ooty

  BE

  2000 — 2002

Skills

• Oracle HR
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Financial Analysis
• Pl/Sql
• Oa Framework
• Oracle
• Financial Accounting
• Fbdi
• Adfdi
• Consulting
• Xml Publisher
• Oracle Forms
• Oracle Fusion Cloud
• Smartview
• Fusion Reporting Studio
• Financial Statements
• Sql
• Otbi
• Workflow