Qualified Chartered Management Accountant with six years of proven experience, adept at delivering accurate financial insights, comprehensive financial analysis, and process optimization. Skilled in financial reporting, budgeting, reconciliations, and data analysis, with a strong ability to support strategic business decisions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Accountant
Deluxe Holiday Homes LLC
Dubai
08.2021 - Current
Reconcile bank accounts and ledgers under cash and cash equivalents monthly, identifying and resolving discrepancies to maintain financial accuracy.
Review and finalize monthly landlord-related expenses, and accurately process monthly rental payouts to landlords.
Prepare ad hoc management reports, along with financial analyses and projections of income and expenses.
Prepare and present monthly income statements to the finance manager, ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
Manage various payment platforms, analyzing payments, processing refunds when necessary, and resolving payment-related disputes raised by guests by coordinating with financial institutions.
Monitor and maintain company systems, such as the Payment Management System (PMS) and landlord portal, ensuring regular updates and generating operational reports as needed.
Reconcile company bookings and payments received from platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com, ensuring accurate alignment with financial records.
Train non-finance staff in the use of payment gateways and financial applications, providing ongoing technical support and guidance to enhance team capabilities.
Represent the finance team in ERP system enhancements, recommending process improvements, and mentoring colleagues on system updates and new features.
Conduct inspections and audits of finance-related discrepancies in company systems, delivering detailed reports and actionable insights to senior management.
Accountant
Fenvi Enterprises (PVT) LTD
Colombo
03.2020 - 02.2021
Ensured the timely and accurate recording of all financial transactions in compliance with accounting standards and principles.
Assisted in month-end closing and the preparation of monthly financial statements.
Conducted monthly financial performance analysis for the company and individual projects.
Reconciled bank statements, investigated discrepancies and resolved.
Prepared and monitored monthly cash flow budgets, conducting variance analysis against actual performance.
Prepared and submitted quarterly VAT returns in compliance with tax regulations.
Managed and handled cash floats and cheque transactions efficiently.
Assisted in payroll preparation, ensuring accurate project status data and commission calculations for project referrals.
Oversaw freelancer payments, including project analysis to determine appropriate pay rates and approving payments upon project completion.
Managed customer and project outstanding balances, ensuring timely collections while maintaining strong relationships with customers and stakeholders.
Conducted pre-project appraisals to assess project feasibility, including cost and time estimation, and projected overall profitability.
Lecturer (Part time)
Global Higher Education Centre
Puttalam
09.2017 - 02.2021
Management Accounting and Finance (MAF) - AAT
Accounts Executive
Innovative Corporate Solutions Pvt Ltd (Shared Service Center)
Colombo
09.2018 - 02.2020
Preparing and presenting monthly financial statements for three subsidiaries.
Analysis of the performances of the subsidiaries using various financial measures such financial ratios and discussing the financial position and performance of these companies.
Preparing monthly bank reconciliations for the parent company and subsidiaries.
VAT and National Building Tax calculations and filling, submitting the tax returns on a quarterly basis, and liaise with the tax authority when required.
Maintained supplier (payable) balances through SAP, ensured the timely payments of invoices and doing monthly supplier reconciliation to cross verify the correct balances with the manual records.
Participating in monthly internal audits on selected areas and collecting information to measure the performance of each internal departments and discussed the ways to improve the internal efficiency of the departments.
Monthly aging analysis of account receivables, investigating the long outstanding and discussed with sales department to recover them.
For the parent company conducting the inventory counts of selected medical stocks on special requests and finding and analyzing the discrepancies.
Checking and verifying the price of the medical stocks in the ERP system on a routine basis.
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance
University of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK (ACMA) -
CIMA
United Kingdom
Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) -
CIMA
United Kingdom
Member of Certified Practising Accountant Australia -
CPA
Australia
AAT (SL) Qualified -
Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Skills
Financial Reporting & Analysis
Proficient in accounting software and ERP systems including SAP B1, QuickBooks and Tally