Financial Accountant
Resume:
Career Objective
To be a dynamic professional, working in challenging environments that would enable me to enhance and utilize my skills and innate abilities, leading to self-development and career progression in the fields of the same while facilitating organizational goals.
Work Experience
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC Sri Lanka)
PricewaterhouseCoopers (trading as PwC) is a global professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom. I was attached to the Assurance division of PricewaterhouseCoopers Sri Lanka office. Period : 27th May 2014 to 5th July 2017.
Designation : Senior Audit Associate.
Reporting Line : Engagement Manager/ Engagement Partner. Duties and responsibilities:
- Served as the in-charge auditor of audit/review engagements which included planning, execution and completion of audit/review assignments according to PwC audit methodology, international and local accounting/auditing standards (IFRS, ISA, SLFRS & SLAuS) while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive client information.
- Performed financial statements audits and evaluated internal controls of Companies in various industries.
- Examined and analyzed transactions, accounting entries, bank statements, inventories, expenditures, tax returns and other accounting and financial records, documents and systems of the entities to ensure financial recording accuracy and compliance with established accounting standards, procedures and internal controls.
- Ensured compliance with established internal control procedures by examining records, reports, operating practices, and documentation.
- Analyzed and monitored general ledger accounts maintained by Companies to identify inaccuracies and anomalies.
- Performed analytical procedures on expected or unexpected variances in account balances or classes of transactions and tested documentation supporting account balances or classes of transactions.
- Prepared detailed reports on audit findings and made recommendations to improve individual or establishment's accounting and management practices.
- Prepared complete sets of financial statements of Companies according to Sri Lanka Accounting Standards (SLFRS).
- Managed and directed the audit team in completing the audits timely and effectively.
- Working in multiple ERP systems and accounting environments to extract necessary data and analyze financial information. (i.e. SAP, Navision, QuickBooks, MS Office, Accpac, and Lotus notes etc.). Industry exposure – Senior Associate/In charge of audit. 01. Manufacturing sector. 05. Hotel and leisure sector. 02. Finance Sector. 06. Non – Profit Organization. 03. Service organizations. 07. Construction.
04. Energy and power. 08. Pharmaceutical sector.
WebxPay (Pvt) Ltd
WEBXPAY is an innovative online platform that facilitates e-commerce and helps to manage online buying and selling through any electronic device for small and medium scale enterprises. Period : 10th July 2017 to 13th July 2018.
Designation : Accountant.
Reporting Line : Finance Manager/CEO.
Telephone
**************@*****.***.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/manoj-perera-75b407a6/. Duties and responsibilities:
- Evaluated business processes, to discover areas for improvement, and to develop and implement solutions by redesigning the business process manual.
- Prepared ad-hoc reports relating to revenue, cost and variances/trend analysis and shared ideas and findings in monthly board meeting.
- Supervised invoicing process, receipts and handled Accounts Payable and Receivables. completed financial reports on a regular basis and provided information for internal decision making.
- Involved in product costing, monthly budget preparation and revenue, cost forecasting.
- Managed company ledgers via Sage, monthly reviewed of chart of accounts, month end journal entries, bank reconciliations and performed monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
- Processed overheads expenses and verified monthly profit and loss account and cash flow statement.
- Coordinated with external auditors. (Deloitte Sri Lanka)
- Handled al statutory regulations (VAT/NBT/PAYEE/STAMP DUTY/INCOME TAX) and dealing with the tax firm relating to tax matters. (Amarasekara & Company Sri Lanka)
- Managed payroll.
- Negotiated with banks when required.
MAS Holdings (Pvt) Ltd.
MAS Holdings is one of Sri Lanka’s largest apparel manufacturers and is noted for its emphasis on ethical and sustainable work environments. MAS Holdings has 53 manufacturing facilities in 15 countries employing over 93,000 people globally The company’s fabric cluster caters to MAS’ internal production requirements as well as external clients. MAS Fabrics prints fabric and produces elastics, lace, hook and eye tape, bows, motifs and warp knit fabric and has manufacturing and sales centers in ten countries.
Period : 16th July 2018 to present.
Designation : Financial Accountant.
Reporting Line : Finance Manager/ Head of Finance. Duties and responsibilities:
- Preparation of monthly, interim and annual financial statements for the company and providing financial and non- financial information for Group reporting via business intelligence system.
- Coordinating and supervising treasury function to ensuring working capital requirements of the company.
- Involving for the preparation of annual budgets of the company.
- Maintain all GL Accounts in SAP inclusive of updating provisions/accruals/prepayments and undertaking monthly reconciliations.
- Daily verifying all the payments to ensure accuracy, completeness of the payments and posting them to correct expense GLs.
- Monthly review bank reconciliation, Intercompany reconciliation and balance sheet reconciliation.
- Overseeing the GR/IR process and monitoring overdue payments.
- Facilitate all the debit note reimbursement recoveries on a-timely basis to ensure on time recoveries.
- Maintaining monthly recurring and non-recurring entries in SAP.
- Overseeing interim and annual audits by liaising with external and internal auditors. (PwC Sri Lanka)
- Handling all tax related matters inclusive of VAT, income tax, ESC and SVAT.
- Preparation of board papers for BOD and ad hoc reports to the management.
- Coordinating with the finance team in undertaking inventory verifications and fixed asset verifications.
- Liaise with internal and external parties to resolve financial matters.
- Performing control self-assessment to ensure operation effectiveness of the internal controls Educational Qualifications
Professional Qualifications
- Successfully completed the Chartered Accountancy qualification conducted by Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (Membership no ACA: 7160).
- Successfully completed the Accounting Technicians qualification conducted by Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (Membership no MAAT – M-11072).
- Successfully completed the Business English higher certification course conducted by the Language Assessment of University of Cambridge.
Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Business Management Accountancy (Special) Degree, Second Class Upper Division (GPA- 3.67)
(University of Kelaniya – Sri Lanka).
- GCE Advanced Level (SL), 2010 August - Royal Collage Panadura. Passed with 2A & 1B (Accounting. Economics, Business studies), District Rank – 81st. Computer literacy & other qualifications
Hands on experience in following systems, in operation and evaluation.
- ERP systems - Microsoft Dynamics Navision, SAP System, Sage and JDE system.
- Advanced diploma in Computerized Accounting – (Accpac + QuickBooks + M.Y.O.B + Tally + Sage + Peachtree.
- Microsoft Office packages - MS Excel, MS Word, MS Power point.
- Participated for “Advanced Excel for data Analysis” work shop that conducted by AAT SL.
- Diploma in English - Royal Institute of Sri Lanka. Extra-Curricular Activities
Individual
- Participated in the three-week training program (DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP QUALITIES & POSITIVE THINKING), held by the Ministry of Higher Education.
- President of Sinhala Literature Club 2006-2007.
- President of Buddhist Club. 2005-2007.
- Prefect of the Dharma School. 2005-2007.
- School prefect in 2005-2007.
- President of Commerce Society (2009).
- Worked as Census officer of 14th Census of Population and Housing of Sri Lanka Conduct by the Department of Census and Statistics of Sri Lanka.
Team spirit
- Treasurer of Accountancy Student Association University of Kelaniya in 2014.
- Former Captain of School volleyball team (2004, 2008).
- Member of school cricket team (2003 – 2007).
- Member of school western band (2004 – 2007).
- Was a scout in school (2001 – 2007).
Personal Information
Date of Birth : 23rd November 1991.
Age : 27 years.
Marital Status : Married.
Gender : Male.
Nationality : Sri Lankan.
Passport : N8115147.
Non-Related Referees
Ms. Saandra Senanayake. Mr. Dinendra Dasanayake.
Head of finance, Associate Director,
Webxpay (Pvt) Ltd, PricewaterhourseCoopers,
No. 7-3/1, Orchard Building, No. 100, Brabrooke Place, Galle Road, Colombo 06. Colombo 02.
Tel: +94-768-***-*** Tel: +94-779-***-***
E-mail: *******.**********@*******.*** E-mail: ********.*.**********@**.***.*** I hereby confirm that the above information is true & correct according to the best of my knowledge. Manoj Perera 08/18/2019
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