Vijithan Alagaratnam
Seven hills,NSW
Summary
Detail-oriented Finance Business Partner, with experience in Budgeting , Forecasting,Analysis ,organizing, problem-solving, and project management. Proficient in microsoft excel, ready to apply knowledge and abilities to take on new professional challenges with an established company.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Commercial and Operations analyst-Human Nutrition
Graincorp Nutrition and energy
03.2022 - Current
- Efficiently prepared and Delivered Monthly P&L reports, completer with insight full commentaries to stakeholders with tight deadlines
- Facilitated monthly management meetings with business unit managers, focusing on both financial and non-financial metrics to enhance decision-making processes
- Lead the preparation of Quarterly Forecast and Annual Budget for Oilseeds crush operations, ensuring timely, accurate and driver forecast financial planning
- Maintaining the Capex forecast and budget including the asset register and support the capital delivery managers to track the spent and decision making on business-critical capex plans and deliveries
- Responsible for the weekly inventory funding reports and summiting on time to get appropriate funding for oilseeds and Tallow inventory
- Managing the Balance sheet and weekly cashflow forecast for Oilseed and Tallow business
- Being a trusted partner and helping the commercial and operations team on their day-to-day business and queries.
Commercial Accountant-Grains supply chain
GrainCorp Operations Ltd
10.2018 - 02.2022
- Quarterly Forecast and Annual Budget preparation for Supply chain, maintenance and Op’s support team and support the business to set up realistic budget and forecast
- Monthly management report and variance analysis with commentary and delivering to operations team and help them to understand the monthly performance and business drivers of the result
- Monthly calculations of supply chain rebates in the network and accruing for the month
- Challenged the monthly result with the trend and helped the operation team to understand the underlying opportunity and risk of the result
- Weekly Operations and Maintenance Dashboard preparations and distribution to the stake holders with commentary on key drivers of the weekly result
- Daily Labour report preparation and distributing to the stakeholders to manage the labour cost effectively
- Monthly preparations of revenue and COGS accrual journals and posting
- Balance sheet reconciliations and posting adjustment or re-class journals
- Actively participating in ad hoc projects and process improvements initiatives including automation of dashboards.
Financial Accountant-Grains
GrainCorp Ltd
03.2015 - 09.2018
- Performed intercompany reconciliations for multiple entities and recorded balance sheet and sales elimination entries.
- Conducted analysis of Bulk Exports P&L to ensure cost-revenue alignment
- Ensured accurate reconciliation of GL, balance sheet accounts including prepayments and accruals
- Performed monthly bank and broker account reconciliations for multiple currencies, ensuring accurate financial reporting.
- Prepared daily cash flow forecast and reported to treasury on funding requirements
- Managed the monthly reconciliation process for various Future Grain reports ensuring accurate posting with SAP.
- Streamlined the reconciliation of open position mark to market derivatives through systematic comparison with broker statements.
- Prepared CAS reports for Half Yearly and Final Audit, effectively addressing all audit queries.
- Contributed to the creation of financial statements for yearend reports
- Oversaw Singapore entity and compiled Financial Statements for Yearend report and Audit.
Senior Accounts Payable -Shared Services
GrainCorp Ltd
08.2010 - 02.2015
- Balance sheet reconciliation of control accounts with sub ledger accounts
- Preparing and uploading monthly journals for Telstra, Corporate recharges & recruitment recharges
- Preparing and posting Cost Centre and General Ledger reclassification journals
- Preparing open items reports for vendors monthly and clearing outdated transactions
- Creating proposals, reconciling and running weekly payment for different business units
- Matching, coding and entering AUD & Non-AUD vendor invoices
- Liaising with vendors and operational staffs and resolve their queries in timely manner.
Reconciliation Officer -Contract
SG Fleet Australia Pty Ltd
01.2010 - 06.2010
- Daily reconciliation of bank accounts and passing journal entries
- Monthly reconciliation of corporate credit card accounts and recording relevant journal entries
- Assisting the preparation of cash flow statements and report to the management on working capital
- Analysing the actual income and margin against forecast and the reasons for variance
- Liaising with customers, suppliers and external parties to provide timely and accurate information.
Accounts Assistant
CPS Color Pty Ltd - Sydney
10.2006 - 12.2009
- Responsible for daily cash management and update management on working capital requirement
- Operation of ANZ online banking and daily bank reconciliation
- Managing AP and AR functions, review and reconciliation including follow up with discrepancies
- Monthly reconciling intra-group transactions and confirming balances with overseas suppliers
- Reconciling general ledger accounts monthly and posting adjusting journal entries
- Maintaining the company petty cash float and supporting documents
- Responsible for preparing and filing BAS and ensuring compliance with ATO.
Production Executive
Brandix Textiles Pty Ltd - Sri Lanka
05.2002 - 09.2005
- As a Production Executive I was responsible for coordinating and supervising the production lines and maintaining the records of Production.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Textile Engineering
University of Moratuwa
SrilankaSkills
- Advanced computer proficiency
- MS Office-Excel
- Word
- Outlook
- PowerPoint
- Power BI
- SAP
- JD Edwards Accounting Software
- MYOB accounting – Version 15
- SYSPRO ERP
- TM1 Reporting
- Future Grain
- Agtec
- Analytical and problem-solving ability
- Influencing skills
- Teamwork
- Task prioritizing
- Budgeting and Forecasting skills
- Process improvement
- Debt collection
- Reporting skills
- Data Analysis
- Cost-reduction strategies
- Adaptability and Flexibility
Keyskillsandachievements
- Advanced computer proficiency in: MS Office-Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, JEDOX, Power BI.
- Accounting and Reporting software proficiency: SAP, JD Edwards Accounting Software, MYOB accounting – Version 15, SYSPRO ERP, TM1 Reporting, Future Grain, Agtec.
- Good analytical and problem-solving ability and helps in resolving financial issues arising in the operational and process levels.
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills enable to build and nurture relationships, Team Player and provide drive and energy within the team.
- Excellent time management and task prioritising skills and willing to take additional responsibility when required.
- Key member for improving the monthly reporting pack for Oilseeds Operations with relevant metrics and insightful data and integrated tm1 into the monthly reports, Quartey forecast and budget packs.
- Worked with Business Analysist team to automate the Daily Labour and Maintenance spend dashboard successfully.
- Escalated and resolved the billing discrepancy in road revenue billing where some freight rates are missing in the TM report.
- Supported the Operations and maintenance team to set up realistic budget and forecast with correct phasing of spent in ECA business.
- Contributed to various process improvements in intercompany reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, bank reconciliations and foreign currency TB conversion in the previous role.
- Team member of Real Estate module implementation and reconciliation of prepayments of rent and rates with system posting into GL accounts.
- Investigated, inadvertently allocated debtors settlement and suggested corrective steps, to identify long outstanding overdue (totalling more than AUD I million) and proceed with successful collection.
Residence
138 Lucretia Road, Seven hills, 2147
Academicandprofessionalqualification
- CPA Membership - 2015
- Conversion of Commerce Degree-Open University of Australia.
- Certified Global Management Accountants, UK (CGMA)-Operational Level.
- Bachelor of Science of Engineering at University of Morata, (BSc) Sri Lanka
Other Information
Cricket, tennis and travelling., Team building, strong interpersonal skills, sound leadership skills, and numerical analytical abilities, Member of the Board of Prefects. Member of School under 19 cricket team
References
Available upon request
Languages
English
Professional
Tamil
Professional
Timeline
Commercial and Operations analyst-Human Nutrition
Graincorp Nutrition and energy
03.2022 - Current
Commercial Accountant-Grains supply chain
GrainCorp Operations Ltd
10.2018 - 02.2022
Financial Accountant-Grains
GrainCorp Ltd
03.2015 - 09.2018
Senior Accounts Payable -Shared Services
GrainCorp Ltd
08.2010 - 02.2015
Reconciliation Officer -Contract
SG Fleet Australia Pty Ltd
01.2010 - 06.2010
Accounts Assistant
CPS Color Pty Ltd - Sydney
10.2006 - 12.2009
Production Executive
Brandix Textiles Pty Ltd - Sri Lanka
05.2002 - 09.2005
Bachelor of Science - Textile Engineering
University of Moratuwa
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