Shanil Samarasinghe
Adelaide,SA
Summary
Talented financial leader well-versed in accounting principles and regulations. Motivated to keep company financial operations compliant, accurate and cost-effective. Ready to bring 9 plus years of experience and take on a challenging new role.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Associate
Ferguson Group Australia (SA)
10.2023 - Current
- Preparing quarterly revenue, expense and performance reports using Graycorp.
- Creating and verifying company invoices.
- Processing payments to vendors and assisting with other accounts payable and receivables tasks.
- Managing payroll data entry and processing for 60 plus employees to comply with predetermined company guidelines.
- Preparing monthly reconciliation of bank accounts and taking corrective actions on deviations.
- Generating financial and operational reports to assist management with business strategy.
- Maintaining accurate and complete documentation to facilitate accounting and filing functions.
- Preparing working papers, reports and supporting documentation for audit findings.
- Maintaining journal entries to track and analyze credit and debit transactions.
Assistant Accountant
Cerbis Ceramics (SA) Pty Ltd
04.2021 - 10.2023
- Reconciled accounts with the general ledger
- Generated and reviewed ledger reports for creditor payments
- Managed accounts payable and receivable including the day to day processing of invoices, cheques, deposits and payment advices
- Completed daily bank, credit card and month end reconciliations and journals
- Prepared periodic payment runs
- Generated and managed interstate & overseas purchase orders
- Creditor and Debtor reconciliation
- Managed inventory controls, including fixed assets
- Contributed to end of month duties
- Recovered outstanding debts as required
Banking Control Officer
Peregrine Corporation Pty Ltd (OTR)
02.2020 - 04.2021
- Production and analysis of financial controls
- Reconciled and code bank account entries from source data
- Performed large dataset analysis to provide thematic insights, identify financial discrepancy root causes and reveal risk levels, simultaneously developing comprehensive remediation plans.
- Managed daily financial functions in collaboration with accounting and payroll personnel.
- Collected, arranged, and input information into database system.
- Observed packing operations to verify conformance to specifications.
Senior Operations Coordinator
Alpha Corporate Property Services
02.2015 - 11.2019
- Inventory Management - ensuring optimal levels of stock via monthly stocktakes and directing the flow of goods into, through and out of the companies storage facilities
- Procurement and purchasing - liaising and maintaining strong connections with vendors, comparing and evaluating offers and negotiating contracts, pricing and shipment
- Assisted with payroll processing of 250 employees and accounts payable and receivable activities using MYOB
- Managed credit and Bank account reconciliation for accurate reporting
- Coordinated weekly meetings for internal and external groups, including teleconferences and video conferences, interacting with all levels of management
- Conducted monthly toolbox talks to ensure all workers were participating in safety activities
- Overseeing all administrative and support functions within the organisation
- Assisted all operational heads with weekly rostering of frontline staff
- Supported the HR manager with new staff training/inductions & documentation
- Identified and resolved unauthorized, unsafe, or ineffective practices.
Accounting Clerk
Arun Accounting & Taxation Services
08.2011 - 11.2011
- Applied mathematical skills to calculate totals, check figures and correct problems with physical and digital files
- Coordinated timely payments from vendors, clients and account holders
- Compiled budget documents and monitored costs to maintain control systems
- Balanced reports and batch summaries to submit for approval
- Processed both outgoing and incoming payments and invoices
Education
Master of Business Administration - International Business Management
Charles Sturt University
Melbourne, VIC2011
Bachelor of Business - Accounting
Charles Sturt University
Melbourne, VIC2010
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication & Consultation skills
- Quality Assurance
- Leadership Skills
- Teamwork
- Workflow planning
- Strong problem-solving aptitude
- Operations safety-oriented
- Decision making & Problem-solving
- Facilities maintenance
- Work Under pressure
- Commercial site supervision
- Good multitasker
REFERENCES
Available upon request
Timeline
Finance Associate
Ferguson Group Australia (SA)
10.2023 - Current
Assistant Accountant
Cerbis Ceramics (SA) Pty Ltd
04.2021 - 10.2023
Banking Control Officer
Peregrine Corporation Pty Ltd (OTR)
02.2020 - 04.2021
Senior Operations Coordinator
Alpha Corporate Property Services
02.2015 - 11.2019
Accounting Clerk
Arun Accounting & Taxation Services
08.2011 - 11.2011
Master of Business Administration - International Business Management
Charles Sturt University
Bachelor of Business - Accounting
Charles Sturt University
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