Accountant
Samsung C & T Corporation
Total years of experience :7 years, 8 Months
Samsung C&T Corporation, Engineering & Construction
(MEA Regional Head Office, United Arab Emirates)
* Effectively managing cash in Regional Head Office and project offices within UAE.
* Preparing daily cash reports and monthly cost analysis for Regional Head Office.
* Coordinating with overseas branches (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt and Algeria) and preparing monthly MEA consolidated cost analysis reports for management decision support.
* Preparing departmental budgets and annual budget for MEA Head Office and consolidating the MEA regional budget.
* Administrating purchase cards and corporate credit cards of MEA Head Office and other UAE project sites, coordinating with the bank and Master Card.
* Updating and maintaining general ledger, handling accounts payables, accounts receivables and reconciliation of those accounts.
* Posting accruals and pre-payments, clearing of memo accounts and also responsible for monthly closing of accounts.
* Monitoring MDG ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning for customer and vendor management) system which is for information management of vendors and customers.
* Arranging payments for monthly RHO staff expenses reimbursements, preparing cost summary reports for overseas business trip expenses.
* Managing visa, E-Dirham and Al Hussam invoices for RHO and site projects and furnishing visa summary for verification.
* Preparing ad hoc reports that analyze and provide information for management decision making such like regional and business unit performance report, cost forecasts, advance payments and cost transfers.
* Researching MEA economy and preparing market intelligence reports for project support and strategic management information.
* Actively involving in discussions relating to VAT implementation in the Middle East.
* Extensively involved in provision and interpretation of financial information for decision support, managing the month end processes, budgeting and forecasting
* Carried out various tasks in the areas of stream lining of procurement procedure, cost benefit analysis, performance analysis, investment appraisals, and identifying critical success factors, key performance indicators in order to improvements in the operations for the organization, leading to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the business.
* Handling various loans and current accounts of the company. Projection of the position of funds in each account for meeting loan obligations. Furnishing projected financial statements and other relevant financial data for loan procurement.
* Recommend the management decisions on the prices/charges to the customers by performing specific customer profitability analysis.
* Calculate commission receivable from the supplier for the procurement made on monthly basis and account for the commission receivable and reconcile figures in the month end.
* Carry out various type of ad hoc project work on various types of reports, cost reviews and analysis etc.
* Evaluate make or outsource decisions based on the factory profitability, capacity and customer deadlines and managing out source contracts.
* Carried out financial analysis of prospective customers to ascertain the creditworthiness of those clients for lease disbursements.
* Preparation of appraisal reports for approval of leasing facilities.
* Prepared sector wise leasing portfolio, age analysis of leasing stock and comparison analysis of branches within the bank. Significant variances are highlighted to the management.
* Developed and strengthen personal banking customer relationship through superior customer service to high net customers.
* Promoted the bank products catering to the exact requirement of the customer need while up selling and cross selling of multiple banking products. Provide information on new products.
* Active involvement in the recoveries and follow-up activities.
* Preparation of relevant legal documents of lease facilities.
* Liaising with other departments.
Steadily growing responsibilities include handling management audits/assignments of client companies.
Computer Proficiency
* Completed a Practical Training Program on Computerized Accounting which familiarize with certain popularly used accounting software in Sri Lanka featuring mainly ERPs such as Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Sage ACCPAC: Zillione Business Solutions
* International Certificate in Competence in Information Technology: International Curriculum & Assessment Agency (ICAA) - University of Southampton
* Secondary Information Technology Certificate of Competence: International Curriculum & Assessment Agency (ICAA), UK
* Have hands on experience on SkyBank Leasing, Lotus Notes and ability to adopt any new system
* Applications: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Access
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - ACMA The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA-UK)
* B.Sc. Business Administration (Special) Degree Second Class (Upper Division) Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (2006/2007)