Head of Accounts
Resume:
CURRICULUM VITE
SUSHANTHA.N. K. PERERA
FOR HEAD OF ACCOUNTS.
HETTIARACHCHIGE SUSHANTHA NANDA KUMARA PERERA.
B.Sc. (HRM) USJ, ICASL Finalist.
Address: New Salata, Doha, State of Qatar.
Tel: 009**-********(Qatar),
E-mail: adx6q9@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
Management position in Accounting / Finance / Auditing that utilises my educational & professional background, previous work experience, interpersonal skills, and leadership ability to their fullest potential.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Sex : Male.
Marital Status : Married.
Nationality : Sri Lankan.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Finalist of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Bachelor of Science Special Degree in Human Resources Management (HRM) with a second- class division at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka. (English Medium). COMPUTER LITERACY
• Accounting Packages –JD Edwards Oracle based ERP system, Oracle Software system, Net Suit ERP system, AX Dynamic, AlmanaAsoft ERP system, Pioneer, Peachtree, Tally, Focus, &Ideal etc.
• Microsoft Office– Ex-cell, Word Processing, Power- Point etc. SUMMERY OF WORK EXPERIENCE
JOB TITLE NAME OF
EMPLOYER
DURATION TOTAL YEAR
OF EXPERIENCE
Finance Manager
GARVEY Properties
(W.L.L)- Real Estate Co.
02/07/2018-
To
28/02/2023.
4 years & 8
months.
Accounts
Specialist
Qatar Museum
Authority-Qatar.
(Restaurants/ Retail/
Hospitality divisions)
27/12/2016 –
30/06/2018
1 year and 6
months
Finance Manager
Al Jazira Construction
and Group of Company.
(Construction/
Real estate/ Whole- sale
and distribution)
15/12/2013-
22/12/2016
3 years.
Accounts Head Al Jaber Electro
Mechanical Co.
(W.L.L)-Qatar-
Construction.
05/12/2010-
08/12/2013
3 years.
Senior Auditor Talal Abu-
Ghazaleh & Co.
(TAGCO)-Qatar
(Arabic Audit Firm)
01/03/2006-
10/11/2010
4 years & 9
months
Audit Supervisor. KPMG Ford,
Rhodes, Thornton
&Co-Sri Lanka
(Audit firm affiliated
with Wales-England)
02/01/2001-
30/01/2006
5 years
Audit Senior Haqque Martine &
Co-Sri Lanka
(Audit firm)
06/10/1998-
30/11/2000
2 years
PRESENT WORKING EXPERIENCE – COMMERCIAL SECTOR
Period - From 02
nd
July 2018 to 28
th
February 2023.
Position - Finance Manager.
Employer - GARVEY PROPERTIES (W.L.L)
P.O. Box: 45327, Doha-Qatar.
Garvey Properties (W.L.L) was incorporated in 2004 as a private owned company and leading Real Estate Company in Qatar. The company’s main business activities are real estate business and maintaining European Family Club to provide luxurious and entertainment facilities targeting especially European nationalities who live in Qatar. Worked as a Finance Manager reporting to the Managing Director.
* Monitoring Cash Flow forecast and managing the working capital of the Company to meet financial liabilities promptly and ensure the cash inflows to the business on time.
* Reviewing and Monitoring Preparing rent income and expenses budgets and perform comparison between actual results and budgeted figures on periodical manner.
* Monitoring all accounts staff workings and guided them with proper directions to ensure accurate business transaction process, recording, analyzing, summering and finalizing.
* Monitoring and reviewing bank reconciliation statements preparation periodically and ensure that all bank transaction are properly recognizing and recording to the accounting system on proper time including the cash transactions also.
* Ensure that all rent income receiving by cash are properly capturing and evidencing by raising the receipts vouchers and get the payee’ signature and properly accounting the system.
* Verifying and vouching all business transactions related documents prior to their initiation and after executing, reporting and approving them prior to Managing Director’s approval.
* Preparing budgeted Profit and Loss Account, Budgeted Balance sheet and various managerial reports.
* Monitoring all the monthly reports including monthly P/L, Balance sheet, cash flow statements to present for the Management approval.
* Worked with Top Management of the Company to perform “SWOT” analysis on all real estate business activities.
* Supporting to review all existing operational and financial process of the company to develop effective and sound internal controls system over them.
* Monitoring rent payables vendors and other suppliers handling by the Assistant Accountants and ensure that prompt payments to them and negotiate with suppliers to get concessionary payment plans and cash discounts on early payments etc.
* Review all the rent contracts with the customers and ensure that all rent income are properly calculated and recognized to the accounts on timely basis and perform variance analysis on rent income monthly and highlighted to the Management for significant variance observed.
* Monitoring all accounts receivables by verifying customers statements and reconciliation with company’s customers’ ledger accounts on monthly wise. If any deviation exists, try to resolve by analyzing the causes affected for such deviations.
* Ensure and follow up with rent receivables customers to collect all due rent receivables promptly and if any issues existing, trying to resolve and ensure the collectability of all dues.
* Monitoring and finalizing monthly maintenance expenses analysis and perform variance analysis reports and submitting the Management.
* Preparing various letters and documents for government department’ approval like municipality attestation request letters prior for renting the buildings.
* Dealing with the bank on arranging short term bank facilities, bank transfers and other transactions.
* Worked with the external auditors on annual audit engagements and ensure that completeness and accuracy over drafted financial statements prepared by Auditors until getting the finalized audited financial statements.
* Ensuring the dealing with insurance companies and other institutions.
* Preparing various managerial reports and “ad-hoc” reports requesting by the Top Management as the case may be.
PREVIOUS WORKING EXPERIENCE – GOVERNMENT SECTOR
Previous Employment (6) :
Period - From 27
th
December 2016 to 30
th
June 2018.
Position - ACCOUNTS SPECIALIST.
Employer - Qatar Museum Authority.
P.O. Box: 2777.
Doha- Qatar.
The Qatar Museums Authority (QM) is the lead body for museums in Qatar. Established in 2005 with the objectives of combining the resources of all museums in Qatar, providing a comprehensive organization for museum development and establishing an effective system for collecting, protecting, preserving and interpreting historic sites, monuments, and artifacts.
Worked as an Accounts Specialist reporting to the Director of Operation / Management.
* Monitoring and reviewing of terms and conditions of catering contracts, events etc.
* Ensure that all contracts have been duly signed and approved by relevant parties.
* Communicate with catering and event operation teams for all received documents on catering the foods on stipulated dates to the customers and many events.
* Cross check with the catering operation staffs on completion of special catering orders and cross check with all relevant documents on catered food stuff prior to sending the invoices to them. This is the same apply for some events management.
* Checked the invoices deeply to ensure that correct rates have been applied in invoices for supplied food stuff as per the agreed prices in line with the contracts agreed for catering and events. If any deviation there, cross check with the operation Head of the Catering Division and Event Manager.
* Manage process, reporting analysis of catering financial performances Including preparing cash flow casts, specific budgets on events and special catering orders.
* P/l and Balance sheet preparing.
* Budgeting, Forecasting, risk and opportunity tracking.
* Follow up collection from the receivables on catering and event management.
* Preparing monthly total revenue analysis covering the revenue from catering, restaurants, retail operation, and events management and ensure that proper invoicing has been completed and sent to the clients.
* Check and approve all the purchase orders sent to suppliers to place the food items for operation and check all material requests by the kitchen in-charge with POs raised. Further checking the rates in POs are the same as agreed with the suppliers and finally checked the suppliers’ invoices with POs raised.
(Three-way matching concept)
* Performed periodical inventory observation and ensure that proper reconciliation between book quantities and physically verified quantities and if any deviation exits, find the reasons and take corrective actions.
* Participated in the operation, finance and process control meeting with the Head of Commercial Division, Head of Catering Manager, Head of events and Sport Activities Management and other operational staff. Further, it is discussed about operational matters, financial performances, new opportunities, short- comings, challenges and corrective actions to be taken.
* Review the effectiveness and efficiency of existing internal controls etc.
* Dealing with the internal Auditors and external Auditors.
* Preparing and verifying the staff and operational staff salaries and ensuring the payment visa WPS System.
* Preparing and furnishing various kind of managerial reports on business operations.
* Many tasks and duties as the case may be.
WORKING EXPERIENCE – COMMERCIAL SECTOR
Previous Employment (5) :
Period - From 15
th
December,2013 to 22
nd
December 2016.
Position - FINANCE MANAGER.
Employer - Al Jazira Construction and Group of Company. P.O. Box: 40247.
Vegetable Market Intersection,
Salwa road, Doha.
Worked as a Finance Manager reporting to the Top Management. Administering the preparation & reporting of monthly financial results in strict compliance to Accounting Policies in accordance with reporting deadlines. Ensuring compliance with statutory authorities, audit requirements and maintaining integrity of accounting system & processes.
Designing & implementing systems, policies & procedures to facilitate internal financial & process controls & cost management.
Supervising accurate filing of returns for timely completion of assessment and filing of returns for Income Tax.
Performing review of new projects and suggested project amendment/reforecast. Forecasting the working capital requirement and ensuring effective allocation of cash resources by supervising activities related to placement of funds with optimal returns. Steering significant improvements in accuracy and timeliness of cash management and reporting.
Conceptualised & designed accounting system encompassing preparation of Petty Cash Book, Prime Entry Books, Cash Book, General Ledger, Journal Ledger, Inventory Records & maintenance of Fixed Asset Register
Creating well-designed budget and financial analysis including forecasts, year-end close review and variance analysis to measure and evaluate the financial success of the organization Facilitated completion of external Audit by external auditors. Reviewing financial statements such as Trial Balance, Profit & Loss A/c, and Age-Wise Accounts Payables, Receivables Statements and Balance Sheet and rendering monthly management reports.
Monitored the entire team and recruited new staff for the company. Prepared and forwarded recommendation notes with ratio analyses on the financial viability of new hotels business to senior management
Verifying the monthly bank reconciliation prepared and checking all LC Correspondents from any LC opening point to the end.
Verifying and monitoring monthly inventory reconciliation. Monitoring all the accounting records and procedures related to the building constructing division.
Verifying and approving all payment vouchers, receipts vouchers and journal vouchers. Guided project manager for best use of project coding consisting of PFS, KPI and its implication/financial impact
WORKING EXPERIENCE – COMMERCIAL SECTOR
Previous Employment (4) :
Period - From 05
th
December 2010, 8
th
December 2013.
Position - Accounts Head.
Employer - Al Jaber Electromechanical Co. (W.L.L)
P.O. Box: 9536.
Doha-Qatar.
Al Jaber Electromechanical Co. (W.L.L) is a company registered in the state of Qatar as a limited liability company and engaged in the field of Constructions and electromechanical works. Worked as an Accounts Head reporting to the Finance Manager.
•Maintaining and monitoring all project related accounts including current accounts, retention accounts, advances accounts, working progress accounts and income accounts.
•Lead the accounting team in moving from legacy accounting systems to ERP accounting System and responsible for all aspects of implementation of the new systems.
•Verifying and approving all payment vouchers, receipts vouchers and journal vouchers in the ERP system and responsible for day today problems solving in ERP system and assist to assistant accountants.
•Handle fixed asset management.
•Handle closing of books on monthly, quarterly and yearly basis.
•Dealing with Internal Auditors and External Auditors.
• Monitoring and reviewing the accounts payables.
• Assist to Finance Manager for preparing and reviewing budgets, revenues, expenses, payroll entries, invoices and other accounting documents.
• Handling cash flow management with multiple bank accounts.
• Verifying the accuracy of LC related documents, Telegraphic transfers documents, advance payment guarantee applications and other various bank related documents prepared by assistant accountants prior to the Finance Manager ‘Approval. WORKING EXPERIENCE – AUDIT SECTOR
Previous Employment (3):
Period - From 01stMarch 2006 to 10thNovember10, 2010. Position - Senior Auditor.
Employer - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh & Co. (TAGCO),
P.O. Box 2620, Doha, State of Qatar.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh & Co. (TAGCO) is a Professional Arabic Organisation providing services Auditing, Taxation, and Consultancy, intellectual property legal services, Projects Appraisals and quality systems.
WORKING EXPERIENCE – AUDIT SECTOR
Previous Employment – (2)
Period - From 02ndJanuary 2001 to 30th January 2006. Position - Audit Supervisor.
Employer - KPMG Ford, Rhodes, Thornton & Co,
(Chartered Accountants)
32A, Sir Mohamed Macan Markar Mawatha,
P.O. Box: 186, Colombo -03, Sri Lanka.
KPMG, Ford, Rhodes, Thornton & Co. is a Professional Organisation providing services such as Auditing, Taxation, Legal Advisory, Information Risk Management, Corporate Finance, and Management Consultancy & Executive Recruitment.
Experience Record - Summary
DATES
CAPACITY REPORTING TO FROM TO
Tax Assistant Tax Manager / Partner 02 / 01 / 2001 30 / 10 / 2001 Audit Assistant Audit Manager / Partner 01 / 11 / 2001 30 / 10 / 2002 Audit Senior Audit Manager / Partner 01 /11 / 2002 31 / 12 / 2003 Audit Supervisor Audit Manager / Partner 01 / 01 / 2004 30 / 07 / 2004 Senior Internal
Auditor-Internal
Audit Division
Audit Manager / Partner
02 /08 / 2004 30 / 01 / 2006
WORKING EXPERIENCE – AUDIT SECTOR- SENIOR AUDITOR
Previous Employment – (1)
Period - From 06
th
October1998 to 30
th
November 2000.
Position - Senior Auditor.
Employer - Haqque Martine & Co.,
(Chartered Accountants)
No 457 2/1, Galle Road, Colombo-03, Sri Lanka.
ACTIVITIES AND SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
1 Completed Arabic Course at Qatar Foundation under the Hamad Bin Khalifa University. 2 Possessing the valid driving licence from Qatar (Driving Licence No: 274********). 3 Participated in Inter audit firms table tennis and badminton at KPMG, Ford, Rhodes, Thornton
&Co.
REFEREES
1) Mr. Philip Joh Lawrie 2) Mr. Saliya Wijekon, F.C.A. Chief Commercial Officer, Audit Manager,
Qatar Museums Authority, Grant Thornton-Al Eid & Co,
(Enterprise Group) (Public Accountants & Management Consultants), P.O.Box: 2777, Doha, Qatar P.O.Box: 6879, C Ring Rd, Tele : 974-******** Tele : 974-********/7
Mobile: 974-******** Mobile: 974-********
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