Pubudu Wickramarachchi

Experience

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  Aviva Broker UK

  Dec 2006 - Dec 2010

  Senior Accounts Associate

  • Managed a team of seven qualified accountants while working for AVIVA (UK).• Promoted through the ranks from junior-associate, associate, senior-associate and to lead the ‘early-bird’ team (AVIVA).• Managed and convene all the meetings with an agenda sent in advance and focus kept on the agenda, finalising the meetings with plan of actions and minutes distributed by next day.• Ensured all performance standards, KPIs, service level agreements achieved consistently, thereby bringing the reliability to the whole team. • Developed and maintained the failure mode effect analysis (FMEA) for reconciliation & processes quality. This was later taken as a part of maintaining ISO standards.• Interact with Internal & external auditors in completing audits and given fullest support to achieve standards of requirements.• Successfully managed the critical projects by identifying and analysing the issues. Quick liaising with onshore teams to ensure timely rectification of those issues and noting and implementing corrective and preventive actions.• Was a QSPOC (quality single point of contact) and handled productivity sheets, engagement models and other relevant activities.• Carried out process-reengineering with automation of complex routine reconciliations and eliminating non value adding activities to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the output.• Applied accounting principles and procedures to prepare journal entries to ensure that the AVIVA General ledger balances are updated accurately and in a timely manner.• Conducted financial investigations using all available systems and contacts to identify and resolve reconciliation discrepancies and irregularities in a timely manner.• Analysed the movement in the general ledger balances and preparing a report with explanations on these movements to be submitted to the relevant stakeholders on a monthly basis. عرض أقل

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  The Ninja Middle East FZCO

  Mar 2013 - Feb 2017

  Chief Accountant

  • Manage all financial accounting activities including financial reporting, financial controls, cash management, banking & audit.• Managing receivables and payable, follow-ups and corrective actions.• Finalization of monthly accounts and year-end accounts.• Liaison with auditors in Dubai and UK providing with various audit schedules.• Routine banking relationships (USA and UAE) and arranging working capital facilities at lower interest costs (UAE).• Cash flow forecasting and discussions with CEO and Marketing Director.• Product costing and analyzing profitability of each order.• Annual budget and variance analysis report each month.• Working with marketing team in pricing decisions.• Export documentation (LC, Avalisation, DA & DP) – submit clean documents to banks.• Working relationship with JAFZA (Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority) عرض أقل

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  Amreet Industries FZCO

  Mar 2017 - Nov 2018

  Chief Accountant
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  Interwell

  Nov 2018 - Mar 2020

  Reporting to : CFO Mena Region • Manage all financial accounting activities including financial reporting, financial controls, cash management, banking & audit in Middle east region (KSA,OMAN,EGYPT,QATAR,ABU DHABI,DUBAI).• Manage payables, follow-ups and corrective actions.• Actively Involve in the Finalisation of monthly accounts and year-end accounts process and completing the process with in the given deadline.• Analyse monthly and yearly variance analysis and provide the reason for the Norway Financial Controller group controller• Manage and Eliminate Intercompany differences• Actively control and Manage all suppliers in KSA , Qatar,Egypt,Oman,Abu Dhabi, Dubai. • Detail Analyse of monthly expenses in all region and identify unacceptable level of expenses and provide reports to CFO.• Decide the supplier payment list and arrange the payment based on the working capital.• Cash Flow forecasting and prepare reports to CFO.• Involve in Sales evaluation and variance analysis meetings. • Managing the Financial activities of the organisation in line with all other countries’ rules and regulations.• Monitoring and checking Final calculation of the salary of the all employees in all region before it goes to the CFO• Handling Vat process and WHT process عرض أقل

  • Finacial Controller/Account Consultant

    Nov 2018 - Mar 2020

  • Financial Controller

    Nov 2018 - Mar 2020
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  Al jaroodi Traders LLC

  Mar 2020 - now

  Finance Manager