Manager (Audit & Advisory)
B. R. De Silva & Company
Total years of experience :6 years, 8 Months
My principal work was auditing financial statements of companies prepared in accordance with Sri Lanka Accounting Standards (SLFRSs and LKASs) based on Sri Lanka Auditing Standards (SLAuSs).
As an Audit Manager of the firm, some of my duties were;
Identifying and taking forward business opportunities for the long-term benefit of both B. R. De Silva & Company and the client was a new challenge of my work. For this purpose, I maintained the relationships with the client’s management to ensure clients are aware of a wide range of B. R. De Silva & Company’s service offerings. Further, I demonstrated broad business thinking and sound commercial judgment in generating plans to add value for clients. In addition to that, I advised clients on various tax matters relevant to Income Tax (IT), Value Added Tax (VAT), Economic Service Charge (ESC), Nation Building Tax (NBT), Withholding Tax (WHT) and Stamp Duty (SD) ensuring statutory compliance.
I continuously engaged in conducting training and I used to share my experience on some of technical topic for the betterment of the members in the group by doing group presentations.
And also, I dealt with multiple demands/tasks efficiently and positively responded to stretching/demanding tasks by maintaining ethical behavior.
- Preparation and finalization of audits of financial statements.
- Preparation of corporate tax computations as per the Inland Revenue Act and filing tax returns.
- Preparation of tax accruals and reconciliations relating to VAT, ESC, NBT and WHT ensuring statutory
compliance.
- Analyzing companies’ external and internal environments and identification of potential strategic business
risks and financial statement implications together with partner and manager.
- Reviewing the work performed by the audit team and deciding on the extent of substantive analytical
procedures and test of details to be performed.
- Communication with the client and audit team to ensure timely completion of the audit work and client
deliverables.
- Performing detailed audit procedures and analytical review procedures.
- Preparation of financial statements, auditor's reports and other reports in accordance with relevant
standards, legislations and advising clients on their regulatory obligations.
- Testing the organizations’ internal controls and identifying the internal control weaknesses.
- Reviewing and analyzing internal control weaknesses and report to the management.
- Co-ordination with the management of the client companies for smooth functioning and timely completion
of audits, reporting and resolving of audit and other issues arising thereof.
- Providing guidance to the audit team on performance of their duties and reviewing their work.
- Assisting managers for time and fee budgets preparation, fee negotiation with clients and monitoring of
actual against the budgets.
- Assisting managers to review the work performed by the audit team and continuous communication with
the partner and manager on the progress of the audit, various issues and providing technical assistance.
- Assisting managers for preparation of reports/presentations of different types e.g., Management reports to
the board of directors on evaluations carried out on the organizations’ process controls and risks involved
on those and recommendations to mitigate the risk of each process, Presentations covering the key
updates of the annual audits for reporting to the partner and board of directors.
Chathurika Darshani Kankanamge - Curriculum vitae
courses: - G.C.E (Advanced level) with 3 A’s – 2005 - G.C.E (Ordinary level) with 9 A’s