Mahesha Kumudu

• Assist in preparing financial and statutory reports in an accurate and timely manner.
• Managing the organisation's fixed assets accounting policies through asset capitalisation along with capital works in progress (CAPWIP), maintenance of Fixed Asset Register with other balance sheet items and reconciliation with General Ledger for accurate maintenance of fixed assets records.
• Responsible for monthly financial close activities, including preparing journal entries and account reconciliations such as fixed assets reconciliations
• Assist in documentation of accounting standards which has an impact on organisation's accounting standards development and implementation in order for meeting its statutory and financial reporting requirements.
• Preparation and submission of various quarterly and annual surveys as requested by different organisations in a timely and accurate manner
• Assist in recording and reconciliation of leasing transactions in accordance with organisation's policies and AASB 16 - Leases
• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities, including coordination with cross-functional teams
• Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
• Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic.
• Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts.
• Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
• Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement.
• Carried out day-day-day duties accurately and efficiently.

• Closely monitored accounts to post timely payments and resolve billing discrepancies.
• Developed reports for senior management to outline expenditures, vendor spend and forecasting.
• Built strong relationships with vendors to enhance cost offerings and accomplish favored customer status.
• Input all relevant transactions and supervised properly within accounting system.
• Partnered with finance team to complete month-end accruals and account reconciliations.
• Observed strict confidentiality regulations to maintain data security.
• Positively interacted with all partners, employees and customers using exemplary communication and interpersonal talents.
• Run EFT and cheque payments on weekly and monthly basis.
• Reconciling intercompany transactions on monthly basis
• Provide general support to the Finance Department.

• Generate monthly debtor and creditor reports, comments on overdue balances & follow up with divisional managers.
• Daily customer invoice generation and ensure timely payment.
• Enter customer remittances into system and reconcile EFT transfers.
• Monthly intercompany accounts reconciliation.
• Monthly Balance Sheet reconciliation with commentaries.
• Assist in end of month reporting.
• Assist in BAS preparation.
• Assist in creditor invoice processing in a timely and accurate manner.
• Assist in reconciliation of creditor statements, follow-up overdue creditors and ensure timely payment.
• Assist in prepare and process payment runs.
• Perform any other ad-hoc duties requested by the management.

· Accounts payable process (ensure the three-way match, enter vendor invoices to the accounting system, raise payment checks, pass month end journals for accruals and other required entries)

· Post receipts and deposits to the accounting system.

· Perform monthly bank reconciliation.

· Monitor expenditures to ensure they lie within the estimated budget and notify relevant parties about their deviations.

· Prepare monthly, quarterly and yearly financial statements and liaise with audit requirements.

· Prepare customer outstanding statement with age analysis for monthly marketing review.

· Responsible for expense budget process for organization through coordinating budget inputs from divisional managers, preparation of variance analysis, providing expected cost levels and control mechanisms to divisional managers.

· Investigate and explain the variances as part of the month-end reporting process.

· Maintain a price checker model to ensure goods sold are cover direct and indirect cost associated with and yield a net positive contribution to the company.

· Ensures the completeness and accuracy of monthly chargeback actual including obtaining source documentation, reconciliation to expenses incurred and estimates.

· Develop and maintain product costing template for up to date measuring of accurate cost and to use as a yardstick for product pricing decisions.

· Process monthly P&L charges.

· Prepare Balance Sheet reconciliations with commentaries for monthly movements.

· Manage month-end activities, determining accruals and prepayments to be made.

· Populate monthly KPI reports, summarizing key performing indicators to the business partners.

· Calculate the monthly group accrual and post charges to cost centers across all business divisions.

· Review the monthly cost base, identify and process the necessary accruals, prepayments and adjustment journals for relevant business units.

· Prepare monthly expense analysis reports including commentary on key variances.

· Preparation of monthly work state report which analyses the aging and risk status of respective balance sheet accounts including commentary.

· Facilitate the external audit by providing audit trails, backups for journal entries and reconciliation reports.

· Maintain and update process documentations and cross train new recruits on the process.