Gayan Serasinghe, Director Finance & Administration

Gayan Serasinghe

Director Finance & Administration

Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC

Location
Sri Lanka - Colombo 7
Education
High school or equivalent, Accounting and Audit
Experience
25 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 5 Months

Director Finance & Administration at Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide PLC
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 7
  • My current job since January 2016
Financial Controller at Securitas
  • Sweden
  • January 2005 to January 2015

Monthly financial reporting-Profit & loss account/Balance Sheet/Cash flow in a multinational company.
* HFM reporting-Hyperion Financial Management reporting to

Senior Accountant at DamroGroup of Companies | Kandy road |Nittambuw
  • January 2002 to January 2005

Preparation of financial reports | monthly profit and loss | Cash flow | Balance sheet.
* Performed general accounting functions, including approving of journal entries, account analysis and
balancesheet reconciliations.
* Proposed and published metrics and KPIs to be incorporated into the monthly financial and
scorecards.
* Provided timely actual, forecast and budget data for IT and corporate management.
* Reviewed collection reports to determine the status of collections and the amounts of outstanding
balances.
* Worked with top management at the project level to ensure expense plans are achieved.
* Worked with other managers to develop annual expense plan goals.
* Maintained fixed asset module and calculate and record monthly depreciation expense.
* Reconstructed accounting records from clients' cheques and cash receipts.
* Assisted management with the finalization of the annual expense plans.
* Created presentation formats for monthly/quarterly reviews of expense charge-outs.
* Drafted complete annual audit reports including all footnote disclosures.
* Established procedures for custody and control of assets, records, loan collateral and securities to
ensure safekeeping.
* Performed periodic budgeting/modeling to project monthly cash requirements.

Audit Associate at Pricewaterhouse
  • Sri Lanka
  • to January 2003

Co |No.12, Rotunda Gardens

Accountant at Ranki Engineering (Pvt)Ltd
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2001 to January 2002

Product costing/Budgeting/forecasting.
* Monthly reconciliation of standard costing Vs. Actual.
* Preparation of Monthly Profit & Loss account.
* Cash flow/Fund flow statement.
* Balance sheet.
* Monthly MIS reporting.
* Closing accruals and journal entries in computerized system Tally 2.3
* Computation of Income Tax and filling of tax returns.
* GST/NSL tax calculations.
* Checking of Invoice and accounts receivables/debtors age analysis.
* Liaison with Auditors to finalize annual audit.

Head of Finance & Administration at Head of Trading & Market Surveillance
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2004 to January 2001
at Colombo Stock Exchange
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2004 to January 2001

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World Trade Centre, World Trade Centre
Echelon Squire, Echelon Squire
Colombo 1. Colombo 1.
Tel 112-356456 / 0773-469470 Tel:112-356456 / 0773-3172817

  • January 1998 to January 2001

Finalizing /Supervising Audits of Manufacturing | Hotels | Construction | Banking | Service sector.

Education

High school or equivalent, Accounting and Audit
  • at Associate Member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri
  • January 2004

courses: Member of Association of Accounting Technician of Sri Lanka. - 1994 * Diploma in IT | Advanced Excel and Power point presentations | IDM Sri Lanka. - 2012 PERSONAL PROFILE * Name in Full:

Bachelor's degree,
  • at University Of Colombo
  • January 2002

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Specialties & Skills

ACCOUNTANCY
ACCOUNTING
BUDGETING
BUSINESS PLANS
CASH FLOW
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
EQUILIBRIO
REPORTS
TAX PLANNING