Roshan Madawala Liyanage, Chief Accountant

Roshan Madawala Liyanage

Chief Accountant

Orientals Enterprises

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Business Finance
Experience
18 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months

Chief Accountant at Orientals Enterprises
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since June 2011

• Handle full spectrum of financial and cost accounting role including AR, AP (Over 150 accounts), GL, forecasting, budgeting
• Responsible for day to day finance and accounts operations.
• Perform full set of accounts and ensure timely closing of accounts (quarterly and annually).
• Perform project cost forecasts/budgets, cost tracking, monitoring and controls.
• Responsible for timely monthly consolidated financial statements, payments, cash-flow
management reporting for submission to Head Office.
• Review & approve payment vouchers & journal entries.
• Perform cash flow forecasting, budgeting and working closely with the operations and project
teams in analyzing margins, variances and cost analysis.
• Issue project cost reports for review and approval of project managers and general manager.
• Develop and maintain internal control and effective accounting system and policies for the set up.
• Support general manager in ensuring that intercompany cost allocations are in line with management.
• Agreements and transfer pricing policy.
• Establish and maintain systems for cost-sensitivity analysis and early-warning of cost-overruns.

Senior Accountant at Commodore Qatar Contracting Co.
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2008 to May 2011

• Primary responsibility was to prepare financial statements and supporting schedules according to
monthly close schedule.
• Facilitate and complete monthly close procedures.
• Analyze revenues, commissions and expenses to ensure they are recorded appropriately on a
monthly basis.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations.
• Assist with analyzing financial statements on a monthly basis and report on variances.
• Assist with financial audits.
• Assist with preparing tax returns and corporate reporting requirements.
• Assist in documentation and monitoring of internal controls.
• Other projects as assigned.

Audit Supervisor at KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton Co. L.L.C
  • Other
  • July 2005 to February 2008

• Draft reports in accordance to statutory rules, accounting standards and firm policy
• Analyze and obtain an understanding of the client business and documented
• Plan, review the results of the audit test
• Preparation of the financial statements as part of the audit in a prescribe forms, including consolidation accounts for groups
• Draft audit reports, memorandum to the audit partner on audit issues
• Guide clients of their regulatory obligations, assist and support in meeting the same
• Preparation of financial statement as part of management assignment for overseas reporting
• Preparation of various report for overseas reporting
• Guide clients on various tax issues
• Review and analyze internal control, weakness and report to the management
• Evaluating the existing internal control environment and designing, testing, evaluating and implementing the internal control systems
• Sectors: Manufacturing & trading, hotels, telecommunication, banking, Insurance, food & beverage

Education

Bachelor's degree, Business Finance
  • at UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO
  • November 2005

Specialties & Skills

Effective oral communicator
Simplification
Strategic Insight
Identify key issues
Investigation
MS Office
EZ Ware

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

Institute of Public Accountants
  • Member
  • November 2008
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka
  • Finalist
  • April 2007

Training and Certifications

Accounts Trainee (Training)
Training Institute:
KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton & Co.L.L.C
Date Attended:
July 2003

Hobbies

  • Charity Work
    Treasurer for "Sivdana Charity Fund" which is initiated to support needy people in Sri Lanka. We built a school library in a rural village, donated medical equipment's to a village hospital and currently preparing for donation of spectacles to elderly people. website is www. sivdanacharity.com
  • Photography
    Interesting in nature, wildlife and landscape photography. spending more time on studying professional photography. Likes Canon DSLR.