1. CURRICULUM VITAE
• To hold a challenging position, in the field of finance and management and grow with
the organization whilst serving the society, utilizing my professional, academic and
personal skills.
• Self Starter with Positive Attitude & Excellent Interpersonal Communication Skills.
• Highly Self Motivated and Innovative.
• Dynamic and Energetic Team Player Injects Energy & Motivation to the team.
• ‘I Can ’’ I Will’ Spirit - built through Dedication, Commitment, Integrity and Correct
Strategy.
• B.sc Accountancy (Special) Degree at University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
• Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (FCA).
• Associate Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka
(ACMA).
• Certification on Treasury & Foreign Exchange Operation conducted by Central Bank
of Sri Lanka.
Capacity Organization Industry Period
From To
Deputy
Manager-
Finance
CITI BANK N.A Banking &
Financial.
12th
December
2011
To date.
Group
Accountant-
Corporate
Reporting.
Trelleborg Group
of Companies
( Swedish
Multinational
Group)
Manufacturing &
Export of Solid &
Light industrial
tires.
01st
February
2009
11th
December
2011.
Sajith Menaka Hettiarachchi. FCA, ACMA, BSc.
# 61,Rathnayake Mawatha, Battaramulla.
T.P No: 0773-661784
E –MAIL: sajithusj@gmail.com
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
EXPERIENCE PROFILE - SUMMARY
PROFESIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
CAREER OBJECTIVE
2. Accountant IBM World Trade
Corporation.
Information
Technology
Service.
13th
November
2006
21st
January
2009
Audit
Supervisor/Audit
Senior
KPMG Ford
Rhodes Thornton
& Co.
Audit Assurance
& Tax.
01st
July 2003 11th
November
2006
Deputy Manager Finance - CITI BANK N.A.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial Accounting & Treasury Related duties.
• Solely responsible for preparing and reporting all statutory returns to Bank
Supervision Department of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (weekly, monthly,
quarterly, bi-annually and annually) including Bank’s Balance Sheet, Income
statement etc.
• Preparation and submission of Capital adequacy ratio returns (Basel –II) on a
quarterly basis.
• Responsible for accuracy and timely publishing of quarterly and annual
financials of the Bank in line with SLFRS/LKAS.
• Significant role played during month-end submission for US GAAP of
country financials within 2 working days.
• Planning for disaster recovery and crisis management strategies for Financial
Control unit at real crisis or disaster situation faced by the entity.
• Monitor whether main Treasury functions are liaise with the Citi bank Global
market risk guidelines & Central bank guidelines.
• Advice to Bank Treasury to maintain the entire reserve requirement with
Central bank on fortnight basis, unless otherwise bank will get penalized.
• Significant role played during the Annual statutory Audit & other bank
internal audits.
• Handling adhoc information requests and queries by internal and external
stakeholders
• Handle system maintenance as and when internal stakeholders requested.
• Based on Tax savings, advice Bank Treasury to maintain Investment Fund
Account (IFA) as per Central Bank guidelines.
Taxation.
• Involved in Tax administrative matters such as Tax appeals & filling of
tax returns & arrange relevant correspondence such as sec 107 (2b) for filling of
tax returns.
• Liaise with Tax authorities for closure of assessments pertaining to
normal VAT, NBT/VAT on Financial Institutions, Corporate tax, and all other
taxes including employee related tax.
EXPERIENCE PROFILE - DETAIL
3. • Review the accuracy of Income Tax computation & Deferred Taxation
done by the Auditors.
Other Exposures
Overseas Trainings Attended
• Citi Accounting and Reporting – September, 2012 – Philippines.
• Citi Market Risk Training- October 2013- Singapore.
Group Accountant-Corporate Reporting; - Trelleborg Lanka Group of Companies.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Financial Accounting- (As in charge of Group of Companies).
• Review routine accounting functions done by the accounting team and
providing guidance to them on their duties of all 3 companies in compliance
with SLAS/ IFRS & other best accounting practices.
• Preparation of monthly accounts for individual companies & consolidated
financial statement accordingly accounting and corporate practices laid down by
the management & submission of them to the Sweden on time through on line
reporting package called ‘OSOFT’. (SAP BPC)
• Analysis and identify major variances in financial statements via trend
analysis and co relationship analysis & if any major variance, report to the
Director finance.
• Draft Audited Financial statements for individual & consolidated entity.
• Handle Annual Audit & dealing with Auditors regarding accounting
issues.
• Prepare monthly presentation for financial highlights for the Group
requirement & prepare for monthly presentation.
Management Accounting & Controlling.
• Involved in preparation of Annual budgets for the all companies.
• Analyze & evaluate the cost effective products mix which minimize
transformation cost & total cost of production.
• Analyze & evaluate standard costing & price & efficiency variance
pertaining to direct material, labour, variable overhead, fixed overhead.
• Evaluate the CAPEX budget for different internal investments with
different clip levels, if such project is going to exceed the approved budget limit,
follow up with the relevant department Heads & try to be within the clip level.
• Prepare estimated working capital status & Operating cash flow &
monitor & maintain required working capital levels & EBIT for individual
entities.
• Analyze the reasons for variance between Actual vs. Budget.
Taxation.
• Involved in Tax administrative matters such as Tax appeals & filling of
tax returns & arrange relevant correspondence such as sec 107 (2b) for filling of
tax returns.
• Liaise with Tax authorities for closure of assessments pertaining to VAT,
Corporate tax, and all other taxes including employee related tax.
4. • Involved in VAT matters such as deferred VAT, suspended VAT &
review monthly VAT returns.
• Review the accuracy of Income Tax computation done by the Auditors.
IT Involvement.
• Involved in ERP REMAP (MOVEX) project as Super User for Finance
& Planning department.
• As the super user (project lead) coordinate with different non finance
teams & achieved common goals of the entity.
• Have done system configuration in finance & planning modules such as
GL, Sales & AR, AP, Inventory, Fixed Assets and Cash Management in
MOVEX.
• Further involved in some development in on line reporting Package called
‘OSOFT’ which is later on switched to ‘SAP’.
People Management.
• Handle 8 members in accounting team including Accountants, Accounts
Executives & Accounts Assistants to achieve finance & planning deadlines.
• Deal with all other departments & facilitate the accounting staff to get all
necessary information to their routine works.
Accountant- IBM World Trade Corporation
Duties and Responsibilities:
Accounting, Finance and Treasury.
• Review routine accounting functions done by the accounting team and
providing guidance to other members of the accounting staff on their duties.
• Preparation of monthly accounts accordingly accounting and corporate
practices laid down by the management and submission them to IBM Australia
on time for consolidation purpose.
• Evaluate prospective investments to be placed by company and preparation of
Investment Memo summarizing all investments options, rates ,period,
recommendation and rational for the recommendation and submission for
Country CFO’s approval.
Taxation.
• Computation of quarterly income tax liability on self assessment basis and
monitor whether these payments are made on due dates to overcome tax default
situation.
• Liaise with Tax authorities for closure of assessments pertaining to VAT,
Corporate tax, and all other taxes including employee related tax.
• Act as a country tester for SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) testing for both direct and
indirect taxes.
Business Controls (Internal Controls).
COMPUTER LITERACY
5. • Having exposure in Enhanced Accounting package called ‘MOVEX’ at
Trelleborg & ‘SUN’ at IBM.
• Studied as subjects and poses hands- on experience in accounting packages like
“ACCPAC” and “SAGE” at the University level.
• Followed “MYOB” accounting package conducted by Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Sri Lanka.
• Had participated all Island Karate display at school time.
• Achieved A/L best results of the school & got District rank of 2.
• Worked as an active member of commerce society of school.
• Actively participated in Accounting and finance society in University.
• Had participated “TSUNAMI” relief project in previous employment.
Name with Initials : S.M.Hettiarachchi
Date of Birth : 02nd July 1981
Age : 33 years
Gender : Male
Nationality : Sri Lankan
Civil Status : Married
School attended : Rahula College, Matara.
Mailed Address : No.61, Ratnayake Mawatha, Battaramulla.
Telephone : 0773-661784 (Mobile)
E-Mail : sajithusj@gmail.com/sajith.menaka.hettiarachchi@citi.com
Mr.Rasika Pushapakumara Mr. Nawaz Nafeez
Manager- Finance Financial Controller
John Kells Holdings PLC. Ansel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.
Colombo-02 Biyagama.
T.P 0717-990286 T.P 0773-815392
I do hereby declare that the above information furnished by me is true and correct to the best
of my knowledge.
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Signature
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S.M. Hettiarachchi Date
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