Gayathri Devi Pathmarajah
Summary
Finance/Management professional with 16+ years of experience in finance, business management and financial analysis with fully compliant and accurate approach. Proven success in preparing detailed financial reports, posting journal entry, bookkeeping, analyzing data and maintaining errorless records for large scale company. Knowledge in account reconciliations, treasury functions, handling Bank Reconciliations and finding major errors in recording the transactions. This enabled the organization to identify many unrecorded receipts and generated revenue to the company. Experience in Excel by using specific functions like advanced formulas, vlookup, pivot table, conditional formatting. An excellent team player who can work on initiatives and proven ability to satisfy and exceed the expectations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Accountant / Bookkeeper
TOWER TRADERS (PVT) LIMITED
01.2024 - 12.2024
- Track sales, invoices, payments, receipts and charges and maintain accounting records
- Submit all the tax forms to the relevant department on periodic basis
- Maintain and monitor monthly account analysis and reconciliation for assigned general ledger accounts
- Prepare, review and upload monthly journal entries for month end-close
- Create balance sheet, income statement and other financial statements
Assistant Controller
SINGER ASIA LIMITED
11.2020 - 12.2023
- Overall responsibility for meeting group financial reporting deadlines
- Prepare of consolidated financial statements of Singer Asia group and present it on a monthly basis
- Review and implement financial planning tools such as budgets, variance analysis, forecasting
- Assist with the Internal audit team for the harmonization of accounting records
- Coordinate with the External audit team during the year end audit to complete the Annual report for the holding companies
- Simplified financial reporting by using pivot table/vlookup to gather details from large set of data
- Business valuation and share market analysis for strategic disposal
- Regular review of corporate cash flow to support strategic decision making
Accountant
SINGER ASIA LIMITED
10.2016 - 10.2020
- Prepare financial statements and reports, including balance sheets, income statements and cashflow statements of Singer Asia Holdings companies by using Hyperion Financial Management
- Prepare financial statements and reports, including balance sheets, income statements and cashflow statements of Subsidiary companies of Singer Asia Limited by using Quickbooks
- Post journal entries, reconcile bank statements and general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial records
- Manage accounts payable and accounts receivable functions including processing invoices, issuing payments and following up on overdue accounts
- Assist with budgeting and forecasting activities including monitoring variances and providing explanations for deviations
- Coordinate with banks for treasury functions by managing excess cashflows and cash deficits
- Responsible for the cash disbursements of the department
- Update all the financial records to Quickbooks and Hyperion financial Management system and generate all the relevant financial reports
- Coordinate with all the foreign banks from Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao and Sri Lanka
Audit Executive/Finance Executive
SINGER (SRI LANKA) PLC
02.2013 - 09.2016
- Analyze the proposals given by the Product Managers and finalize the prices of the products by coordinating with the Manager - Revenue and Margin
- Handle Bank Reconciliation of subsidiary and identify the errors in recording the transactions
- Coordinate with the relevant department to solve the errors
- Conduct internal audits, system reviews and risk management assignments of retail branches, financial services, manufacturing, warehousing, sales and service operations
- Inventory reconciliation by using 'Pivot table' function to analyze large set of data which comprises of retail shops and inventory counts of electronic and electrical goods
- Assist in internal financial controls and regular reviews on compliance
- Involve in the Internal Audit planning processes to understand the risk of the departments
- Communicate with the departments heads on accounting and operational issues
- Help them to plan and incorporate internal controls to solve the issues
Accounts Assistant
SINGER (SRI LANKA) PLC
04.2010 - 01.2013
- Prepare Management accounts and posting journal entries for reporting purposes
- Handle Bank Reconciliations of the 2 major bank accounts of the company
- Ledger accounts analysis for auditing and controlling purposes
- Handle accounts of one of the Duty Free Shops of the company
- Responsible for bookkeeping and day-to-day business and operations
- Prepare Profit and Loss account and Balance Sheet
- Handle Month end journals
- Coordinate with Tax Department for statutory payments
- Handle petty cash and maintaining petty cash vouchers and ledgers
Finance Management Trainee
SINGER (SRI LANKA) PLC
07.2008 - 03.2010
- Reconciliation of Branch inventories on monthly basis and follow up the discrepancies
- Submit all inventory adjustments for correction to the relevant departments by checking the AS400
- Involve in Annual Physical Inventory verification in warehouses
- Engage in system migration from AS400 to IFS ERP system and ensure smooth flow of data transformation of the inventories
Education
Bookkeeping Certification -
Intuit Academy
11.2024
Master of Business Administration - Business Administration
University Of West London
09.2015
CIMA - Management Accountancy
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
05.2014
Member - Accounting
The Association Of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka
01-2012
Advanced Diploma - Management Accountancy
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
01-2010
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- GAAP
- Budgeting, cash flow analysis, financial statement analysis
- Bank reconciliation
- Bookkeeping / journal entry reconciliation
- Risk Management / Internal Controls
- Cash Management / Treasury function
- Year-end audit with the external audit team
- MS Office applications (Excel, VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, advanced formulas, Word, PowerPoint)
- Google applications (Gmail, Sheets, Meet, Slides, Docs)
- Hyperion Financial Management
- Quickbooks
- IFS ERP
- AS400
- Tally
- Ex-member of Toastmasters International
Timeline
Accountant / Bookkeeper
TOWER TRADERS (PVT) LIMITED
01.2024 - 12.2024
Assistant Controller
SINGER ASIA LIMITED
11.2020 - 12.2023
Accountant
SINGER ASIA LIMITED
10.2016 - 10.2020
Audit Executive/Finance Executive
SINGER (SRI LANKA) PLC
02.2013 - 09.2016
Accounts Assistant
SINGER (SRI LANKA) PLC
04.2010 - 01.2013
Finance Management Trainee
SINGER (SRI LANKA) PLC
07.2008 - 03.2010
Bookkeeping Certification -
Intuit Academy
CIMA - Management Accountancy
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Master of Business Administration - Business Administration
University Of West London
Member - Accounting
The Association Of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka
Advanced Diploma - Management Accountancy
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
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