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Ranjith Jayawardena

MBA (Sri.J.) PIM, FCMA (UK), CGMA (USA), CA finalist, CBA (CA), SAT (SL)

**/*, ******** *******, ****** Road, Nugegoda Sri Lanka 14.01.1964 Married adzxdi@r.postjobfree.com (94-773****** / (94-112****** CAPABILITIES FRAMEWORK

A detailed orientated Accountant of Business and Information Systems within large, complex and corporate industries with experience in program and project governance, including scope management, vigorous controls, and comprehensive testing and implementation regimes. CAREER OBJECTIVE

I am committed to the protection of corporate business and finance information and therefore I would be content to explore opportunities centered on my qualifications, experience and skills and desire to maximize my versatility and adaptability to a diverse setting that provides me with continual challenges and opportunities as a Finance Personnel.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• FCMA (UK) : Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK

• CGMA (USA): Member of Chartered Global Management Accountants, USA

• Finalist: Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA)

• CBA: Certified Business Accountant – Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA)

• SAT (SL)Senior Member of Association of Accounting Technician of Sri Lanka

• IAB (UK): International Association of Book-Keepers, UK ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• M B A: Obtained a Master Degree from Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) – University of Sri Jayewardenepura

• Executive Diploma in Employment Relations

• Diploma in English from Open University of Sri Lanka CAREER SNAPSHOT

ETF Board (Employees’ Trust Fund Board)

• Décember 2016 to date – Deputy General Manager (Enfoncement) /Assistant General Manager

(Enforcement)– ETF Board – 6 years

Involved in investigation of contribution defaulters and apply Board recovery process.

• Investigation Skills

• Technical Skills

• Strong Negotiation Skills

• Risk and Compliance

• Financial Systems

• Taxation

• Process Improvements

• Conflict Management

Skills

• Finance /Accounting

• Case Management

• Project Management

• Countermeasures

• Advisory Engagements

• Investment Analysis

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National Child Protection Authority

• July 2016 to December 2016 – Head of Finance (Finance Director) – National Child Protection Authority.

– 6 Months

Ministry of Health – GFATM (HSS) Project

• January 2016 – July 2016: Project Finance Head – GFATM-HSS (Geneva funded project) – 6 Months A Project Under Ministry of Health (Global Fight Against, Aids, TB and Malaria) Coca Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited

Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd is a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola SABCO Ltd. (South African Bottler) a multinational company. The core business of the organization is bottling Coca-Cola owned brands under the authority of “The Coca-Cola Company”. Presently, the organization produce sparkling beverages (carbonated) and still beverages (non-carbonated). They bottle 11 Coke brands in 5 different package sizes and maintain 29 stock keeping units in terms of finished goods.

• Sep 2008 – Dec 2015: Manager Accounts Receivables & Credit Control – 7 years

• Feb 1997 – Oct 2008: Asst. Manager Financial Accounting & Reporting – 12 years

• Sep 1992 – Jan 1997: Executive Assistant Accounts – 5 years

• Sep 1991 – Aug 1992: Accounts assistant – 1 year CAREER ACHIEVEMENT

Award of ‘Coca Cola - Most Recognised Employee for the year 2012’. This award was received for the outstanding contribution towards achieving in turning around the company’s credit sales system. It has helped to save over Rs. 100 million from bad debts.

PROFILE

Currently working as a Deputy General Manager (Enforcement) at ETF Board comes under Ministry of Finance. Managing Nineteen regional offices and over five hundred of staff members reporting through nineteen Regional Managers.

Worked as a Finance Director (CFO) – A six months experience at National Child Protection Authority and holding the responsibility of accounting and financial functions of the Authority which comes under Ministry of Women and Child Affairs.

Obtained six a month’s project accounting experience at Ministry of Health involved in project the Global Fight against Aids, TB and Malaria (GFATM). It includes Involvement in maintaining, controlling and disbursement of project funds received from Global Fund in Geneva. My experience counts 24 years’ services at Coca Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited, a Multinational Company which is formally known as Pure Beverages Company Limited. This experience includes 7 years as Head of Accounts Receivable & Credit Control. Further I was appointed to Coca Cola Grater Management Team (GMT) and worked 7 years.

I count Seven and half year accounting experience at “Janatha Estates Development Boards” (JEDB) too. 3

• Manager Accounts Receivables & Credit Control (7 years) I have turnaround the Coca Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited’s credit sales system by converting credit distributors to cash. 100% Credit customer base changed to 95% of cash customers in General Trade. Also managed to maintain zero bad debts status for few years and the annual saving is over Rs. 100 million.

Accounts Receivable Department under my leadership obtained Green Audit status for few consecutive years.

• Manager / Asst. Manager / Executive – Financial & Management Accounting (17 years) o Played key roles in Financial Accounting, Treasury, Taxation, Inter Company Accounting, Consolidated Accounting, Accounts Payables and General Ledger over twelve years. o Five-year experience in Management Accounting and reporting. This includes preparation of Annual Business Plan, Cash Flow forecast, variance analysis, COE analysis, Cost Center reporting, CAPEX Control, Inventory Control.

o I possess vast experience in working with fully integrated SAP ERP Environment and acted as super user in FI module and provision of management information for decision-making purposes. o Active involvement in system migration from JD Edwards to SAP. Had also exposure to different accounting systems like, IBM System 36, SCALA, BASIS, JD Edwards, SAP, AS400. o Participated in negotiation with various Government officers like Sri Lanka customs, Provincial council, and other tax consultants

o Managed the Company Treasury function with involvement of monitoring planning of Cash flows, dealing with suppliers & buyers as and when required. Negotiating with Banks to increase the current trade lines or to add new facilities.

o Ability to work in application packages like excel, word, power points etc. o Experience & passion of working in pressurized situations and maintain high working capacity. o Strong entrepreneurial & negotiation skills and business acumen. o High level of integrity, commitment, drive, diplomacy & adaptability. o Practical approach to Problem solving.

o Strong team player, excelling in leading others & associates. o In depth experience in handling financial accounting and reporting matters. o Strong personal relations & communication skills o Commitment to reaching excellence & Service mentality. 4

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

1) Coca Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Limited and Pure Beverages Company Limited. (Total of 24 years in accounting including 17 years managerial experience) Manager – Accounts Receivables and Credit Control. From 2008 to 2015 (7 years) Details of Job:

• Managing and controlling market credits of Distributors, Key accounts, Modern Trade.

• Coordinate with sales and other cross functional teams to ensure volume growth.

• Maintain healthy customer relationship and provide best service to customers.

• Maintain a strong credit policy which reviewed on regular intervals to align the changing market condition.

• Review age analysis and take appropriate actions for long outstanding.

• Visiting distributors, reviewing and monitoring their credit worthiness.

• Taking effective and preventive action on risky customer transactions. Financial Accounting – 12 years’ experience

General ledger

• Finalization of monthly financial accounts and AFS

• Supervision of maintaining ledger accounts its reconciliations.

• Ensure the accounts are prepared in line with Sri Lanka Accounting Standards and other statutory requirements.

• Monitoring the compliance of SAP monthly closing procedure.

• Adherence to company policies procedures and SOPs. Review of monthly accounts

• Review the draft monthly accounts in line with the deadlines and submit for management review.

• Review and approval of Journal Vouchers.

• Review SAP monthly compliance procedure.

• Review monthly cost centre variance reports and obtain explanation from cost centre managers

• Review customer and supplier accounts reconciliations Year End closure

• Organise year close procedure.

• Co-ordinate with stake holders and obtain necessary information for YE closure process,

• Ensure adherence to company, statutory and audit deadlines.

• Preparation and review of yearend accounts reporting packs.

• Review yearend accrual process to ensure all relevant transaction are accounted. Treasury

• Negotiate with Bankers for exchange and interest rates.

• Involved in making decisions in relation to management of short & long-term fund requirements of the company.

• Monitor exchange rate and interest rate fluctuation

• Inter Bank funds transfer to obtain maximum benefit from interest rate fluctuation.

• Arrange foreign invoice payments by studying the forex movements.

• Get in to forward exchange rate agreement with the consent of Regional Treasury. 5

Intercompany accounting

• Review supervision and maintaining ledger accounts.

• Review and approval of Journal Vouchers and Intercompany reconciliations.

• Ensure adherence to SAP monthly intercompany closing procedure Management Accounting – 5 years’ experience

Monthly Accounts

• Review and analysing monthly Rolling estimates for its variances with actual and historical data.

• Cost centre expense review and obtain explanation for variances from cost centre Managers.

• Review and approve monthly management reports to be submit to the Management.

• Compliance of regional office reporting requirements. Annual Business Plan

• Organise, coordinate with stake holders for the preparation of BP and obtain primary data.

• Review preparation of BP with reasonability of assumptions and comparison with historical data.

• Review reporting packages and presentation of BP.

• Perform on ratio analysis and ensure BP is free of miscalculation and errors and omissions. Project Evaluation

• Done pre project evaluations on various scenarios and make recommendation to the management

• Review preparation of evaluation, calculation and assumption and other relevant data and its reliability.

• Review project reports and compare with project evaluation to ensure the data is relevant and accuracy.

• Post implementation review on the projects and submit management reports on post implementation. 2) Janatha Estates Development Board – 7 years

Worked in the Finance Division of Janatha Estates Development Board and obtained the basic accounting experience in following areas:

• Product costing

• Variance analysis

• Handling of cash

• Payroll processing

• Labour allocation

• General Journal posting

• Customer Service accounting

• Project evaluation

3) Airport and Aviation Services Company Limited – 3 Months Worked in Airport and Aviation Services Company for brief period of time and obtained experience in cash handling in different foreign currencies,

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OTHER DETAILS

Other involvement in CCBSL

i. Treasurer of the Coca Cola Sports Club.

ii. President of Coke Toastmaster club.

iii. Active Member in all organising committees and gave the leadership to its success. iv. Treasurer of the Coca Cola death Donation Society. REFEREES

(1) Mr. Adhil Jawzi

Senior HR Business Partner

Dialog Axiata PLC

Union Place

Colombo 2.

Tel: +94-77-733****

E-mail: adzxdi@r.postjobfree.com

(2) Mr. A Tharick Razick

Group Director Finance - Debug Group of Companies

Residence:

No 26, Station Road,

Colombo 6.

Tel: +94-777-******

E-mail : adzxdi@r.postjobfree.com

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