Ashani Munasinghe, Cpa, Mpac Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Australia

- Ensure the accuracy of financial records in NetSuite, including maintaining the general ledger and finalizing the month-end financial reporting process.- Create financial statements in line with applicable accounting standards and conduct analysis for senior management.- Produce periodic and quarterly financial reports from NetSuite.- Compile monthly financial reports and conduct reviews of profit and loss statements, perform balance sheet reconciliations and analyse variances. - Support the preparation of annual and monthly budgets and evaluate variances.- Manage the invoice approval process using Stampli, ensuring invoices are processed promptly and accurately.- Oversee the Accounts Payable team located in various regions to ensure the accurate coding of supplier invoices, while ensuring compliance with company policies.- Prepare and reconcile monthly accruals, ensuring expenses and liabilities are recorded accurately.- Monitor and report on capital expenditures (Capex), ensuring proper classification and recording.- Post depreciation entries in accordance with company policies and accounting standards.- Prepare and review tax reconciliations for UK companies, ensuring compliance with local tax regulations.- Reconcile bank statements, credit cards, and intercompany transactions.- Coordinate with external auditors and resolve financial discrepancies as they arise.- Manage filing deadlines and assist in closing all procedures to ensure compliance with procedural and reporting standards.- Identify and implement opportunities to streamline and automate accounting processes, reducing manual effort and enhancing efficiency.- Collaborate with key stakeholders, including CFOs, company founders, and other departments, to provide financial insights and support decision-making.

Australia

- Maintain precise financial records in the accounting system, including the general ledger and completing the month-end financial reporting process.- Develop general-purpose financial statements in accordance with applicable accounting standards and perform analysis for senior management.- Generate periodic and quarterly sales reports.- Prepare monthly financial reports and weekly cash flow forecasts.- Assist in the preparation of annual and monthly budgets and analyse variances.- Process payroll, leave, superannuation, and PAYG. Reconcile superannuation, BAS, payroll tax, and PAYG for monthly/quarterly payments and process journals.- Reconcile bank statements, credit cards, and intercompany recharges.- Handle accounts receivable tasks, including debt collection, debtor reporting, sending out statements, raising credit notes, and assisting customers with account queries, along with setting up new accounts.- Perform accounts payable tasks, including maintaining the accounts payable supplier database and entering supplier invoices.- Work with external auditors and address financial irregularities as they arise.- Manage filing deadlines and assist in closing all procedures to ensure compliance with procedural and reporting standards.- Ensure compliance with tax regulations and prepare tax returns.- Monitor and analyse financial performance to identify trends and variances.- Collaborate with other departments to provide financial insights and support decision-making.- Implement and maintain internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure accurate financial reporting.- Stay updated on changes in accounting standards and regulations to ensure compliance.

Melbourne, Australia

- Maintain accurate client financial records in the MYOB, Xero accounting systems and maintenance of General Ledger and update necessary journal entries.- Reconciliation of bank statements, credit cards and assisting with the month-end financial reporting process.- Recording payroll, leave, superannuation, PAYG in accounting systems of clients. Superannuation, payroll tax and PAYG reconciliation for monthly/quarterly payments and processing of journals for clients.- Preparation of monthly management reports and monthly financial reports including cash flow of clients.- Accounts payable tasks consisting of maintaining accounts payable supplier database, entering supplier invoices and filing.

Melbourne, Australia

- Maintain accurate financial records in the MYOB accounting system and maintenance of General Ledger and journal entries.- Reconciliation of bank statements, credit cards and petty cash and assisting with month end process, including preparation and processing of journals.- Managing the payroll function of the company using MYOB.- Accounts Receivable tasks including debt collection, debtor reporting, sending out statements, processing phone payments, raising credit notes and assisting customers with account queries along with setting up of new accounts and credit checks.

Sri Lanka

- Prepare and maintain accounting records, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.- Generate management accounts as required.- Develop and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting and other tax requirements.- Record keeping in accounting systems to generate monthly reports for all the organisations.- Managing the payroll function of the company using Quickbooks.- Liaising with external auditors and dealing with financial irregularities as they arise.- Administer cost control management.- Maintain office equipment inventory register.- Correspond and liaison with all suppliers and organization's bankers.- Filing of Annual Returns and all other statutory documents.- Maintain accounting records in the QuickBooks accounting software.

Sri Lanka

- Preparing financial statements, including monthly accounts.- Meets accounting financial objectives by forecasting requirements. - Preparing annual/monthly budgets, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances.- Entering timesheets and processing payroll.- Liaising with external auditors and dealing with any financial irregularities as they arise.- Preparing Tax, VAT and NBT computations.- Managing operating cash flow & disbursements.- Confirms financial status by monitoring revenue and expenses.- Evaluating financial data and preparing daily reconciliations.- Maintaining daily ledgers in Xero accounting system and preparing ad-hoc management reports.- Liaising with the third parties such as banks, tax authorities, etc.

Sri Lanka

- Possess overall responsibility for the completion of assurance engagements.- Discussing with the senior management of the company about the business, industry, and its changes and other influencing factors while establishing/ understanding the scope of the engagement & coordination with the audit managers at KPMG.- Obtaining an understanding of the business as a whole and the industry in which the client operates, in order to understand the internal control system, accounting systems and their effectiveness and appropriateness.- Identifying areas of auditing and accounting significance, evaluating the financial statements and planning the initial audit approach.- Providing guidance and consultation to group staff on the performance of their duties, and review of their work.- Preparation of income tax computation as per the country income tax regulations.- Observations of physical inventory verifications.- Coordinating timelines, staff requirements, reporting requirements, to audit teams and superiors.- Preparation/review of financial statements, auditors’ reports and other reports in accordance with relevant standards and legislation.- Evaluating audit differences, assessing overall audit conclusions and drafting required audit opinion based on conclusions reached.- Supervision of audit teams to ensure smooth delivery of assurance and related services with the highest quality.

Education record

Master Of Professional Accounting (Cpa Australia Extension), Accounting And Finance

(Part-time)

Graduate Certificate Of Professional Accounting, Accounting And Finance

Professional Level, Chartered Accounting

Secondary Education