Chief Accountant
Classical Palace
Total years of experience :22 years, 10 Months
• Preparation of monthly and annual Financial Accounts in accordance to statutory reporting requirements
• Completing management of working capital closely monitoring the functions of Invoicing, Debt Recovery, Creditor Payments
• Completing weekly cash forecast and financial planning.
• Banking activities such as feasibility repots, projects’ cash flow and arrangement of project financing
• Ensuring all month end journals are posted in a timely and accurate way with appropriate supporting documents
• Checking and verifying monthly payroll with Wages Protection System (WPS)
• Preparing ad-hoc reports to Management
• Collaborating with Internal and External Stakeholders
• Managed and improved the company’s entire financial accounting, monitoring and reporting systems
• Ensured all month end journals are posted in a timely and accurate way with appropriate supporting documents
• Play a strategic role in managing the company’s finances, budgets and associated Business interests.
• Coordinated as appropriate with a range of internal and external stakeholders and responded to their needs accordingly
• Supervised and reviewed the work of financial Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Procurement
• Gave advice guidance and support on all financial matters to the company directors
• Supervising the entire Accounting and Audit functionalities in the Company and ensure all work commitments are honoured and deadlines are met.
• Producing Management Information Systems, preparing and participating in the Budget discussions.
• Being a member in the Steering Committee for implementation of FOCUS ERP SOLUTIONS, the whole responsibility relies on me to assure the smooth operation of the modules: Finance, Procurement, and Payroll.
• A complete management of working capital closely monitoring the functions of Invoicing, Debt Recovery, Creditor Payments and Inventory.
• Liaising with Internal and External Stakeholders
Preparing and analyzing monthly statement of Comprehensive Income, Financial
Position, Changes in Equity and Cash Flow. Producing detailed Management
Accounts for Managing Directors.
• Formulating Annual Budgets which embeds all inputs from heads of other
division and present to the Managing Directors.
• Involving with the functionalities connected to developing Cooperate Strategy.
• Managing the Finance team in order to ensure all work commitments are honored
and deadlines are met.
• Generating interim and year-end Statutory Accounts.
• Monitoring and reviewing all capital expenditure and report quarterly.
• Ensuring adequacy of insurance cover
• Supervising debtors, creditors, commissions and general ledgers.
• Implementation of control procedures as to minimize the risk on the critical
activities over Supply Chain and Systems Function.
• Liaising between Board of Directors and the Stakeholders who could imposed
high influence over the business.
• To perform any other duties assigned by Managing Directors in the interest of the
company.
Preparing and analyzing Monthly Project Financial Reports and forward to World
Vision -US office.
• Participating in developing a long term strategy and operational plans to
strengthen area development program and the project finance related areas.
• Implementation the policies and procedures of the World Vision field financial and
grant manuals.
• Providing technical support in formulating, interpreting and implementing the
donor requirements as well as the annual budget guidelines.
• Implementation of the audit recommendation. Advise team on ways to improve
the internal controls and accomplishment of the audit recommendations.
• Identifying and implementing cost saving mechanisms without compromising
quality of service.
• Reviewing budget variances and prepare explanation reports
• Reviewing financial status of Community Based Organizations (CBO's) and work
with CBO's in preparing high quality action plan.
• Participating in tender evaluation committee to finalize the tender. In addition
preparing agreements with selected contractor and forward to legal department along with work breakdown structure.
• Conducting monthly project meeting with beneficiaries to ensure quality of the
work based on Gantt chart.
• Assessing the finance function and internal control system for local partnering
organization.
Preparation of monthly Management Reports by completing numerous schedules
including prepayments, accruals and cost allocations.
• Implementing strategic plans, setting administrative budgets, and developing
improved processes to meet short term long term objectives.
• Detailed quarterly forecasts and variance analysis for finance manager and
factory manager
• Formulating annual budgets with inputs of heads of division and present to
finance manager
• Supervise monthly stock verification and update cost sheets.
• Managed sales ledger and reconciliation of the debtors' control
Professional Qualification
MSc (Applied Finance) -University of Sri Jayawardenapura
University Of Jaffna B.B.A (Special in Financial Management)