Charles Alexander

Coffee Chain Reporting to General Manager
• Partner with senior management to strengthen financial governance, operational visibility, and strategic decision-making
across a multi-branch F&B retail operation.
• Lead ERP functional analysis and process automation initiatives in Odoo 18, improving reporting accuracy, internal control
effectiveness, and month-end close efficiency.
• Drive CAPEX planning and budget monitoring, ensuring capital expenditure aligns with return expectations and company
policy across branch expansion activities.
• Improved cash flow forecasting and liquidity management by introducing structured treasury monitoring procedures and
working capital controls.
• Produce monthly management accounts, variance analysis, and financial dashboards for board-level and senior
management decision support.
• Audited the absence of formal finance SOPs on joining; reviewed existing operational procedures, redesigned and
documented a structured SOP framework that minimises human judgement at critical control points, eliminates process
ambiguity, and ensures full procedural transparency across finance and administrative functions.
• Manage and mentor a finance team of 3, fostering accountability, process ownership, and continuous improvement culture.
• Identified and implemented tax planning strategies that delivered over USD 30, 000 in annual tax savings, ensuring full
compliance with Saudi Zakat and income tax regulations while optimising the companys overall tax position

Financial Reporting: Prepared monthly, quarterly, and annual statements in compliance with IFRS and GAAP standards.
Cost Management: Analyzed costs to identify opportunities for reduction and efficiency improvements.
Strategic Planning: Supported organizational goals through detailed financial modeling and insights.
Operational Oversight: Managed payroll and HR operations while ensuring strict adherence to internal controls

FMCG | European Investor Group | NORFUND Capital Project | Reporting to Finance Director
• Developed and executed financial strategies aligned with European investor group objectives, including NORFUND-funded
capital project financial monitoring, drawdown reporting, and cost-to-complete tracking.
• Administered contract and commercial documentation for the NORFUND capital project, coordinating cost control, progress
billing, and compliance with funder reporting requirements.
• Redesigned payroll workflows for 123 employees through semi-automation, significantly reducing processing time,
eliminating errors, and ensuring full statutory compliance.
• Strengthened internal control environment by formalising financial closing procedures, reconciliation controls, and audit
support documentation to international governance standards.
• Directed product costing and pricing strategies across FMCG product lines, ensuring P&L accountability and target margin
delivery.
• Managed dual finance and administration functions — including HR oversight, company secretarial maters, and office
administration — while maintaining financial reporting discipline.

• Supervise and oversee the general ledger activities and ensure that journal booking, posting and closing the books are done on a timely and accurate basis.
• Ensures that all Finance team members are supported to maintain excellence in service delivery and have opportunities for professional development
• Timely and accurate preparation of monthly and annual financial statements and reports in accordance with SWISS GAAP.
• Manages and oversees the budgeting process including effective planning, guidelines and assumptions.
• Budget development & manage - monthly forecasting, projection and variance analysis.

Achievements
• SAP working experience
• Fully automated supplier payments through SAP
• Utilized the existing facilities in SAP to increase the efficiency of Finance department.

• Develop streamline and enhance financial management and reporting processes.
• Check the feasibility of each business segment and use KPI to monitor the performance.
• Prepares financial reports for financial analysis, forecasting, cash-flows, and results analysis.
• Oversee the monthly payroll activities such as data inputs, generating payroll reports and payroll reconciliation.
• Product Costing
• Oversee treasury management and banking functions.
• CAPEX Management

Achievements
• Successfully completed a ERP system implementation.
• Reduced the vehicle rent expenses by 30%.
• Designed and completed a Fixed assets register for the whole company.
• Introduced the app based ordering system to drive through outlets to reduce customer waiting time

• Develop and maintain financial accounting systems for cash management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, credit control and petty cash.
• Liaise with auditors to ensure annual monitoring is carried out.
• Product costing for internal and external parties (BOI).
• Oversee the foreign transactions and keep healthy relationship with Bank.
• Actively manages Finance Team members, in accordance with the organization’s HR policies and processes, seeking specialist advice from HR Team as required.

Orit group manufactured apparel for Levis USA. had 3500 employees. Dummalasooriya plant had 450 employees. My duties and responsibilities were as follows.

• Collaborates with the other department managers to support overall department goals and objectives Ensure the timely reporting of all monthly financial information.
• Manage the Factory level purchasing & payments.
• Check the factory payroll & salary payments.
• Indicate the variances of production & Budget (including carder ratio & overtime) to the division heads
• Liaising with internal auditors and external auditors
• Prepare the KPIs for all direct reports.
• Provide training to new and existing staff as needed

This company fabricated the imported power generators and predominated in Sri Lankan power generator market. During my employment in this company, we implemented an ERP system. Responsibilities and duties were as follows.

• Preparing MIS reports and statutory accounts
• Liaising with auditors
• Handling the imports & imports related payments
• Handling all Tax matters (ESC, VAT, TT, Stamp Duty and Income tax.)
• Deciding & Designing MIS reports
• Liaising with software developing team
• Preparing Budgeted income statements and cash flows
• Preparing BOI biannual reports for Soar Electro Mechanical Manufactures (Pvt) Ltd

I joint the company as audit trainee and completed two years of practical experience in audit, taxation and accounting sectors. During the training I got the chance to join with following mentioned assignments
• Internal Audit - National Lotteries Board.
• Special Audit assigned by Prime Minister - Naoyada Lanka
• Physical Stock verification - Arpico Supermarket chain
• Statutory Audits - Antler group and many sole entrepreneurship
• IT/Finance Advisory service - Soar Technology Pvt Ltd and its group