Dilshan Dissanayake

The role involved managing an entire Finance department for 18 employees in conjunction with the added responsibilities of Administration, HR, IT and Accounting departments. SAP and Business Warehouse tools were used for data extraction and report generation for submission to senior management on a monthly basis. The job entailed constant analysis of the market for lighting components together with the sales team and further setting targets for sales limits in comparison with the budgeted sales for the year.

Handling routine tasks for daily functioning of the business and month end reporting.
• Entire Accounting and Finance role in the Dubai branch - Involves board level reporting, regular management reports, logistics management and all daily accounting tasks.
• Reporting on Profit & Loss figures for Middle East on a monthly basis.
• Preparing a General Comparison report on a monthly basis for performance analysis to management.
• Manage entire receivables and payables for up to 200 clients.
• Working capital management to sustain daily operations of the company.
• Major involvement in the marketing function and motivating marketing staff in terms of their performance on a monthly basis.
• Responsible for sales analysis and assisting sales teams with numbers and targets to be met for the month.
• Responsible for the audit process and delivering high standard financial data at year end. Successfully completed the first audit under my responsibility.
• Managing entire functions of Human Resources, Administration and IT functions of the company.
• Monitoring of all projects undertaken by the company and ensuring the life cycle is managed.

Non reporting responsibilities:
• Maintain the entire IT system within Middle East Region with assistance from Europe (ATOS) IT teams.
• Responsible for maintaining all HR records of employees with the help of one assistant for the administration department.
• Handling on a daily basis the PRO function for the company and was involved in trade license renewals, employee visa renewals, legal tasks during forensic investigation in clearing fraudulent activity for the company, and routine PRO related functions.
• Involved in setting up corporate credit management for Tridonic as part of maintaining a safeguard with our customers hence reducing the possibilities of bad debt for the company.
• Setting up an appraisal framework for all employees in coordination with the Europe HR team.

• Role involved assisting in budgeting and marketing for new web site launch, setting up internal controls, observe and maintain client confidentiality.
• Prepare financial statements and maintain company funds for investments and future expansion.
• Assess effectiveness of marketing strategies and agreements with clients.

• Role involved preparation of monthly reconciliations, controlling bank balances for salary posting, posting journals to cost centres including intercompany cost transfers besides addressing cost related queries.
• Assessed effectiveness of controls, accuracy of financial records and efficiency of operations. Evaluated the internal control systems, identified variances and rectified the same.
• Preparation of mass allocation reports for final account preparations and assist Financial Control Team.
• Identified and improved all finance processes migrated from the UK Healthcare Team.
• Reviewing posted journal entries and bank reconciliation prepared by team members.

• Project Lead in transferring 60 plus finance process from the UK Healthcare team

• Worked in the UK for this project for 4 months