Financial & management Accountant

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Profile

A proven Financial & Management Accountant, my key skills are in supporting

the organisation, departments and managers through the provision of user

friendly, relevant and accurate information and advice which enables

informative decision making.

I draw upon my extensive financial, accounting and business experience to

support and assist the department and organisation to achieve corporate

wealth maximisation .Throughout each role in my career I have improved

processes, created effective reporting templates and supported managers by

working with them, educating them on financial concepts and making reports

and the reporting process easier and more relevant for all parties. I enjoy

analysing information, turning it into easy to understand reports, advising

business areas and doing what I can contribute to the organisation.

Skills & Attributes

Roles

. Financial Accountant

. Management Accountant

. Senior Accountant

. Systems Accountant(MS.NAV ERP)

Industries

. Manufacturing & Trading

. Wholesale & Retailing

. Telecommunication Service

Financial & Management Accounting Support

. Preparing Financial & Management Accounts

. Monitoring Accounts Payable, Receivable, Inventory & General Ledger

. Budgets & Cash flow Forecasts

. Support to Strategic Decision Making

. Taxation & Regulatory Compliance

. Monitor Costs & Revenues

. Fixed Assets Register

Investigate, Review & Advise

. Profitability - Customers & Products

. Variances & Product Cost Analysis

. Funding Distribution

. KPI Analysis

Improvement Processes & Practices

. Identify & Implement of Accounting Practices

. Automate Processes & process improvements

. Create User Friendly Templates / Reports

o Improve Reporting, Accuracy & Relevance

o For Financial & Non- Financial People

. Improve Reporting Practices & Documents

. Implementation and upgrading of ERP System

. Functional guidance to the systems development team; proactively

identifying and driving systems improvements; supporting training and

development

. Activity Based Costing (ABC)

Accounting Packages

. ERP Systems ( ACCPAC, MS.Dynamic NAV )

. HYPERION(HFM)

. MYOB, Quick Books

. MOVEX, Sybize Vision

PC Skills

. Advanced Microsoft Excel (v lookups, pivot tables), Word, PowerPoint,

Access, MS Outlook, Internet Explorer

Qualifications, Professional Development & Memberships

. CPA Professional level Qualification CPA

Certified Practising Accountant, Australia

. Master of Accounting Degree

University of Colombo

. Bachelor of Business Degree - Accounting

University of Colombo

. Part III Qualification of Chartered Accountants ICA

Institute of Chartered Accountants

. MS Dynamic Navision ERP (NAV) Functional Training Certificate- (MS NAV

2009)

Institute of ONAK ERP Training Academy,Colombo

Memberships

. CPA - Part Qualification - working towards CPA membership

. Fellow membership - Institute of Financial Accountants, UK (FIFA UK)

Key Achievements

. Imperative team member in the organization, who undertook the task to

build up the loss making company, in to a profit making business, with

a significant market share in the industry.

. Took led of the financial team and assisted auditors, when the Finance

Manager is on leave on time to time.

. Successfully introduced the Activity Based Costing System (ABC) to the

company.

. Significantly increased the cash flow of the company by reducing the

inventory levels, improving debtor collection and local &

international creditor payments arrangements.

. Effectively introduced and implemented the MS.Dynamic NAV ERP system

integrating all the modules and departments. Set up and maintained

the charts of accounts in line with the company requirements.

. Actively involved in preparation and monitoring of the Business Plan

of the Company.

. Successfully designed & implemented strong internal control systems

for the Company covering many critical areas. (Six Sigma)

. Introduced proper Tax planning structure; where Millions of monies

were saved to the Company.

. I was thanked by the CFO for my excellent organisational skills,

expertise knowledge in analysing issues from different perspectives

and providing suggestions and proposals for workable solutions to

problems.

. Builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication and

build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and

external stakeholders.

Work History

Huhtamaki Australia Pty Ltd, Mt. Waverley

March 2012 - Current

Accountant (Financial / Management)

(Reporting to the Finance Manager and then Finance Director)

Huhtamaki is a multinational packaging company with leadership in food and

food service packaging, with over $ 3 billion in sales, operating

in 35 countries, including New Zealand. In Australia, Huhtamaki has 2

operations located in Sydney and Melbourne and it is expertise in molded

fiber / flexible packaging and paper cup manufacturing.

. Preparing the monthly Management Accounts and consolidated reports for

Australia and New Zealand.

. Responsible for preparing the Annual Financial Statements.

. Uploading Financial Accounts to "Hyperion" (HFM) Group Reporting System.

. Preparing Budget and Monthly forecast and support management decisions

in reporting commentary behavior of significant variances. Analyses

revenue and expenditure trends and recommend appropriate budget levels;

ensure expenditure control.

. Analysis of monthly management accounts and commentary to explain

behaviour of revenue and costs structure.

. Balance Sheet reconciliations by entering journals to the system and

completing the month end reconciliation between General Ledger and

subsystems.

. Producing daily sales report and communicate with relevant team members.

. Performing daily sales margin variance analysis; ensure sales and

value addition is maintained properly.

. Arranging working capital requirements by producing weekly / monthly

cash flow forecast.

. Preparing weekly rolling cash flow forecast report.

. Monitoring the preparation of monthly bank reconciliation including AUD,

USD, credit card and petty cash.

. Computation & remit GST, PAYG & BAS.

. Assists in Audit procedure & document preparation.

. Reconciliation of intercompany transactions in monthly basis.

. Preparing Month-end reports. ( gross profit by products & by customer,

gross margin report and analysis)

. Identifying and implementing process improvements to automate manual

processes and provide information easily to the divisional Managers

enabling day today efficient decision making.

. Monitoring the processing of payrolls on a fortnightly and weekly

basis.

. Monitoring Accounts Payable and Receivable ledger, timely managing the

collections and debtor's ledger functions for month end accounts.

. Maintaining of Fixed Assets Register and account for additions, CAPEX,

disposals, & depreciations in the FAR module.

International Distillers Ltd & Group

Oct 2007 - Feb 2012

(Joint venture with IDV Ltd - UK)

Senior Accountant/ Systems Accountant(MS.NAV ERP) - Permanent

I D Limited & Group, formerly known as Gilbeys Ltd, was incorporated in

1980 as a Joint venture with IDV Ltd of United Kingdom. I D Limited & Group

today, the second largest food & beverage manufacturing & distribution

company in Sri Lanka, and has earned a reputation as the high quality

producer in the industry. At present its market share is 25% of local &

imported liquor beverages. Other subsidiary companies involve in retailing

& whole sale businesses. The company has 260 employees at present.

. Prepared monthly Management Accounts & Annual Financial Statements.

. Prepared accounting papers for board reports, uploaded Management

Accounts to the parent company through Hyperion Financial Model.

. Co-ordinated and advised the Head of Divisions and Managers to

overcome, day today operational issues, in order to formulate smooth

running of inter department's operational activities (IT, Production,

HR,Stores, Distribution and Sales etc

. In charge of ten numbers of staff members (Executives & Clerical &

Allied grades) worked under me and oversaw the activities carried out

by them on a regular basis.

. Prepared Annual Budget & set future objectives and strategies.

. Prepared the monthly cash flow forecast and arranged working capital

requirements of the company.

. Prepared monthly Detail Customer / Product profitability Analysis

report for decision making.

. Prepared product costing model for pricing decision making. Maintained

the production BOM.

. Calculated monthly standard cost vs. actual cost variance report.

. Involved in preparation and monitoring of the Business Plan of the

Company.

. Managed Forex and Transfer Pricing for the Company.

. Undertook the responsibility for Inventory management and improved

inventory management controls; monitored inventory levels & timely

reporting cost variations to the management.

. General Ledger reconciliation by entering journals to the system.

. Analysed & evaluated of project's feasibility.

. Identified and implemented continuous process improvements to the

Business.

. Interacted with internal and external auditors in completing audits.

. Oversaw the intercompany transactions on monthly basis.

. Computed & remitted sales based GST, Income Tax, PAYG & BAS to Tax

Authorities.

. Successfully introduced and implemented the Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP

system integrating all the modules and Departments.

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. Chart of Accounts

. General Ledger

. Receivable Account

. Payable Account

. Inventory

. Fixed Asset Register

. Production BOM

. System internal controls & security levels

. Accounts Schedule preparation

. Overlooked & upgraded MS Dynamic NAV ERP system according to the

organizational objectives & changing requirements of the operational

activities. Trained the juniors & Managers in order to get the maximum

benefit of the package.

. Monitored Accounts Payable and Receivable ledger.

. Monitored Fixed Assets Register and account for additions, disposals &

depreciations in the FAR module.

East India Retailing Company

Oct 2005 - Sep 2007

(Subsidiary of IDL)

Accountant - Permanent

Company is engaged in importing & trading food & beverage products in local

market and doing retail businesses through own outlets.

. Prepared finance components of monthly board reports

. Calculated products profitability for month end reporting.

. Responsible for Inventory Management by introducing good accounting

practices.

. Maintained the asset register and accounting for depreciation

expenses.

. Performed bank account reconciliations, balancing General Ledger and

enter Journals to the accounts.

. Monitored & controlled receivable & payable ledgers.

. Managed accounts payable, cash flow, taxation and statutory reporting

for the company.

Interests

. Cricket

. Basket Ball

. Staff training for continuous improvement

. Spending time with family and friends

Referees

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