Financial Analyst Senior
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RUSHILA CASINATHEN
Scarborough, ON M1B 2B9
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SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST
Senior financial leader with expertise in all facets of accounting, financial management, and financial analysis for high- profile, global corporations. Experienced manager with strong analysis skills for advising senior management on financial performance and operational decision-making. Instrumental in improving processes for financial monitoring, enhancing reporting, and implementing technology solutions. Proficiency in MS Office, Oracle, BAAN, ERP, Great Plains, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, SAP, Khalix, Cognos, Mainframe, Biceps, WMS, IMS, IW and Workday.
Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles (CGAAP & USGAAP)
Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX)
Standards
Financial Reporting
Financial Modeling
International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS)-Inc. IFRS9,15 &
16
Financial and IFRS process
Analysis
Financial Audit Management
Company Pension accounting
and Analysis
Global Corporate
Financial Management
Financial Planning and
Forecast
Financial Instrument
and Hedge
P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E
Consultant Feb. ’21– Current
Canadian Standard Association, Toronto Feb. ’17 – July. ’20 Financial Analyst, Global Reporting & Analysis
Analyzed and assisted global reporting manager to prepare monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements and cash flow in accordance with IFRS.
Prepared working papers, financial statements, financial notes, discussion analysis for management, and reporting package for board, senior management and internal and external auditors.
Analyzed and prepared implementation process and documentation for improvement to analysis for company bank covenant, intercompany transactions, fixed assets, Intangible assets, goodwill, Lease and foreign exchange valuation reports.
Communicated and coordinated with global management team to improve the month end and quarterly financial reporting package and complex financial reporting issues.
Liaise with external auditors on matters pertaining to the audited consolidated financial statements and other disclosure reports including shareholder’s equity. SHAWCOR, Toronto, ON July. ’09 – April. ’16
Senior Financial Analyst, Consolidation & Reporting
Prepared and analyzed monthly, quarterly and annual consolidated financial statements in accordance with IFRS for world’s largest integrated energy services company that generates $1.8 billion in annual sales.
Conducted IFRS implementation process, process documentation, improvement and analysis for company pension plan.
Prepare parts of the Management Discussion & Analysis Report and quarterly press release.
Liaise with external auditors on matters pertaining to the audited consolidated financial statements and other disclosure reports including shareholder’s equity.
Assisted to developed and completed the annual plans, quarterly financial forecasts and coordinated, analyzed, reviewed with consolidated annual, /quarterly financial reports versus forecast and plan while providing actionable commentary to senior management
RUSHILA CASINATHEN 416-***-**** *.**********@*********.**
Reviewed payroll including general ledger journal entries, prepared month end closing entries, reconciled GL accounts, and prepared financials reports from subsidiaries, managed balance sheets, and profit and loss (P&L) account analysis.
Prepared working papers, financial statements, press releases, discussion analysis for management, and reporting package for board, senior management and internal and external auditors.
Analyzed reasonability of foreign exchange gain/loss accounts and changes in cumulative translation account.
Communicated and coordinated with complex business acquisition and prepared Purchase Price Allocation. SHERRITT INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Toronto, ON May. ’08 – April. ’09 Senior Financial Analyst, Consolidation & reporting (contract)
Managed one staff member in the preparation of monthly and quarterly consolidated financial reports and provided updates and recommendations to senior management for global leader in mining, processing and refining of nickel and cobalt with annual sales of $800 million.
Assisted in the preparation of audit working papers to support financial statement analysis and the IFRS team with accounting transaction treatments.
Prepared consolidated cash flow working papers and continuity schedules for senior management and external auditors.
Led process to develop cash flow working paper reconciliation process that resulted in improved financial statement management by the IFRS team.
TRAVELEX, Toronto, ON Sept. ’07 – April. ’08
Senior Financial Analyst, Global Business Payments (contract)
Managed a team of two staff and conducted analyses and prepared routine regional and global P&L reports, key performance indicator (KPI) reports, balance sheet, cash flow, capex, annual budget, financial planning and forecasting for leading global foreign exchange company generating annual revenue of £721 million.
Created a new KPI model.
ASSOCIATED BRANDS, Toronto, ON Jun, ’07-Aug, ’07
Senior Financial Analyst (contract)
Prepared routine financial reports and implemented process for freight and commission reconciliation and recording, resulting in corporate savings of $270K. CELESTICA INC., Toronto, ON Jul, ’05 – May, ’07
Senior Financial Analyst, Corporate Planning & Control (contract)
Analyzed and prepared consolidated weekly periodical management summary reports to support annual financial planning and forecasting for global provider of technology, automation, and engineering services and products.
Managed consolidated monthly and quarterly operational and capital expenditures, planning, and forecasting for four global Celestica’s sites.
Implemented process for U.S. payroll reconciliation and transaction documentation in accordance with accounting standards (SOX).
Assisted with system implementation for SAP and Khalix. EDS CANADA INC., Toronto, ON Jan, ’05 – Jun,’05
Project Accountant (contract)
Analyzed, reconciled and updated payroll funding, third party remittance and banking from September 2003 to March 2005.
Implemented the process for payroll reconciliations and created an access query (SQL & Oracle database) to improve accuracy and productivity.
RUSHILA CASINATHEN 416-***-**** *.**********@*********.** PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING ONTARIO, Toronto, ON Oct, ’04 – Dec, ’04 Financial Analyst (contract)
Analyzed, reconciled and updated accounts receivable, bank and credit card payments.
Developed process to improve analysis of account receivables and bank reconciliations resulting in increased cash flow of$250K for 2004.
CANADIAN TIRE CORPORATION LTD., Toronto, ON Jan, ’02 – Jul, ’04 Financial Analyst
Conducted analyses and prepared monthly, quarterly and financial reports for senior management and internal and external auditors.
Conducted variance analysis for standard custom duty and freight resulting in annual savings of $1 million.
Designed financial modeling for improved reporting. LOBLAW’S COMPANIES, Etobicoke, ON Dec, ’89 – Dec, ’01 Financial Analyst, 1996 – 2001
Senior Analyst, 1994 – 1996
Retail Accountant, 1992 – 1994
Intermediate Analyst, Accounts Payable, 1989 – 1992 E D U C ATION
IFRS courses cconducted by CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTANTS CANADA CERTIFIED GENERAL ACCOUNTANTS OF ONTARIO - Pace Level (2004) Master of Arts, Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Bachelor of Arts, Accounting (Honors), University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Bachelor of Philosophy, Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
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