Nilantha Dissanayake, Director Finance

Nilantha Dissanayake

Director Finance

Sri Lanka Aquaculture Development Authority

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Master's degree, CIMA
Experience
21 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 2 Months

Director Finance at Sri Lanka Aquaculture Development Authority
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 1
  • My current job since September 2017

• Responsible for whole finance function of the Authority.
• Managing over 25 Finance staff at Head office and looking after finance activities of nearly 30 centers around the country.
• Responsible for Taxation, securing cash flow, dealing with

Finance Manager at Dubai Blocks LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Ras Al Khaimah
  • My current job since January 2015

• Budgeting and forecasting the monthly and yearly revenue.
• Cash Flow forecasting and manage daily, monthly cash flow.
• Liaise with Bankers and negotiate for better facilities and terms, loan financing and re-scheduling
• Liaise with Auditors.
• Preparation of monthly Management Accounting as well as Yearly Final Account.
• Monitor monthly sales, production progress and report any deviation and suggest corrective actions.
• Monitor and manage stores and logistic activities.
• Evaluate and Improve Internal control system.
• Preparation of monthly MIS reports to the board of directors.
• Training the Finance Department, Stores and Logistics Staff
• Project Profitability analysis.
• Product costing and price setting.
• Customer Evaluation, Credit limits controlling.

Senior Finance Manager at Sri Lanka Savings Bank Ltd
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 8
  • September 2016 to September 2017

• Planning and Budgeting at Strategic level including Corporate / Action plan.
• Meet regulatory requirements and reports to Central Bank as well as to the Ministries.
• Oversee Finance and Planning Department of the Bank.
• Monitor Finance function of the whole Bank.
• Design, Implement and improve Internal Controls.
• Take part in various Strategic and Management level Committees (ALCO, Executive Credit Committee, Management Committee, Audit Committee etc).
• Prepare and publish monthly, quarterly and Annual Accounts of the Bank.
• Liaise with Auditors, Central Bank, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Public Enterprises.
• Manage and Tax liability of the Bank.

Finance & Admin Manager at Emaar International
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2014 to January 2015

Apart from Finance Manager’s roll following new duties has assigned.
• Administration Department - looked after all administration, Office Management, VISA related matters.
• Estimation / Costing Department - was able to develop new costing module to ease the costing system and derive more accurate costing. Offer attractive project costing by considering sunk cost, incremental cost and overall contribution.
• Supervised CAD Designing team.
• Sales Department - was able to motivate some of underperforming sales executives and introduce flexible approached to project pricing hence increase the number of project singed during the time.
• Purchase Department - Handled all major purchase decisions, monitored of material prices and minimizing the purchase cost.

Finance Manager at Emaar International
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • March 2009 to December 2013
Management Accountant at M/s Aarsleff Salcon JV
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 6
  • September 2008 to March 2009
Accountant - M/s Per Aarsleff A/S at Colombo Sewerage Rehabilitation Project
  • Sri Lanka
  • May 2005 to August 2008
Assistant Accountant -M at AE Logistics
  • Sri Lanka
  • February 2004 to May 2005
Assistant Accountant at M/s Galaxy Group (Garments) Ltd
  • Sri Lanka
  • October 2003 to February 2004
Accounts Assistant (Air Line Credit Controller) at Scanwell Freight Express (Colombo)
  • Sri Lanka
  • September 1998 to April 1999

Education

Master's degree, CIMA
  • at Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of United
  • November 2015

Member of CIMA UK

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Mahatma Gandhi University
  • June 2012

1st Class Degree

Master's degree, CMA
  • at Institute of Certified Management Accountant - AUS
  • May 2011

CMA Member

Bachelor's degree, B.Com
  • at University of Colombo
  • March 2003

Four (04) year full time Degree

Diploma, Computer Based Accounting
  • at University of Colombo
  • March 2002
Diploma, Business English held by Department of English
  • at University of Colombo
  • September 2000

Specialties & Skills

Teamwork
Internal Controls
Final Accounts
Analysis
Budgeting
ACCOUNTING
ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
BILLING
FINANCE
INVOICES

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Certified Management Accountant - Member of CMA (AUS): Institute of Certified
  • Member
Governing Committee member of ICMA - Australia (UAE) Chapter
  • member
  • January 2013

Hobbies

  • Photography
    Was a Deputy Chairman of the Sri Lanka Student Photography federation