Chamantha Udagama Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

• Working closely with the Financial Controller and Senior Management Accountant to understand the business needs and provide timely financial solutions/assistance to help them achieve the team goals.• Maintaining compliance across the business unit with Tetra Tech Group financial and commercial policies and standards.• Providing a full range of trusted business partner support to the ODs of the business unit, providing high quality financial information, providing robust challenge and analysis of all commercial activities.• Completion of Balance Sheet reconciliations for review with Financial Controller.• Assisting in the improvement process of the balance sheet reconciliation process, working with the business partners and Financial Controller.• Creating and monitoring of year on year, “Flux” analysis.• Assisting the Senior Management Accountant with the Intercompany process, overheads, prepayments and journals.• Assisting the Finance Controller, Finance director and Senior Management Accountant with adhoc reports and special projects.• Ensuring that the Financial Controller are aware of any significant financial issues on a timely basis. • Assisting with the improvement of business processes following the implementation of a new ERP system within the business unit.• Ensuring financial reporting of the allocated cost centres are accurate and in accordance with the group timetable.• Ensuring that Group Financial and operational controls are operating correctly.• Preparation and analysis of month end office management accounts for Consulting Central Cost centres. • Analysis of costs versus budgets for supporting functions.• Providing robust explanations for any significant trends/variations to target or forecast for supporting function.•Assisting non-finance personnel resolve issues/queries on operation of RPS systems and other areas of the business.

City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Overseeing accounts payable processes for the organisation, ensuring invoices are appropriately authorised, coded, processed, and ready to be paid.• Reconciling supplier statements with the ledger, liaising with the supplier to rectify any discrepancies.• Processing staff expense claims and company credit card returns, ensuring expenditure is in line with the relevant policy, with appropriate receipts, and claims are authorised and coded accurately.• Processing payments of invoices and expenses in bi-monthly payment runs and issuing remittances to support.• Processing grant payments to families and member organisations, keeping relevant trackers up to date. • Maintaining financial records, coordinating with the external auditors and providing any information required to complete the year-end audit.• Creating and maintaining supplier accounts on the finance system.• Collaborating with other departments to ensure accurate coding and authorisation of expenditure.• Liaising directly with external providers to confirm bank details and raise queries.• Liaison with trustees, staff, and external partners, ensuring effective communication and relationship management.• Ensuring smooth running of the finance administration including direct debit, memberships bank, e-filing of invoices.• Maintaining team mailboxes and handling general queries by phone and email. • Ensuring the smooth delivery of the 3-year energy project supporting the wider team members to cascade information and opportunities across our stakeholder groups.• Website administration and setting up online events and support registration, delivery, and evaluation of webinars.• Providing administrative support to ensure the smooth running of the workshops, from promotion and registration through to delivery and evaluation.• Providing administrative assistance across the Practice and Service Development team, e.g. file management, posting out of resources, and responding to member requests.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Gained knowledge and experience in running an entire shift in the kitchen from opening, breakfast, lunch, closing and overnight.• Provided a friendly and helpful service to ensure a positive customer experience, operated tills, processed transactions and handled payments.• Certifications - Health and Safety (EOTF), Hygiene & Food Safety (EOTF), Fries (EOTF), Grilled Products (EOTF), Fried Products (EOTF), Main Menu Assembly (EOTF), Stock & Prep (EOTF), Hospitality and building a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace.• Recognised as the “Employee of the Month” for the month of October 2023.

Sri Lanka

Unilever Sri Lanka is the 1st choice employer for graduates for 12 consecutive years. The company has been ranked as the Most Valuable, Strongest Brand, and Most Respected Entity.•Proved excellent payment management by introducing a Purchase Order (PO) tracker for the HR department for analysis, reconciliation, credit control, and following up on payments and budgets.• Analysed costs in line with the Covid safety budget from testing to employee welfare, handled all the payments related to Covid safety and conducted cost prediction for the future.• Reporting and analysing compliance data for supply chain reward and talent.• Assisted in driving and finalisation of the annual workforce employee appraisal cycle.• Planned and deployed the Horana factory corporate social responsibility plan internally and externally along with factory workforce engagement with the support of Unilever brands to boost brand equity/goodwill.• Ensured smooth operations and safety of the factory through end-to-end management of Covid response and mitigation strategy by coordinating with the factory leadership team.• Organised and drove the vaccination campaigns for 800 plus combined WC, BC, and 3rd Party employees at the factory to reach a vaccination percentage of 94% coordinating with the union.• Digitalised the workforce employee Covid-19 records to facilitate smooth decision-making for faster Covid response (Power BI dashboard and HR area audit tracker).• Assisted HR business partnering by driving workforce training and capability development calendar along with the employee upskilling agenda.•Worked on the standard operating procedure (SOP) refreshers at the factory coordinating with multiple teams at the factory to ensure the current standard operating procedures are updated to the current trends.• Drove the annual scholarship awards and Women´s Day celebrations for the year 2021.• Assisted global and local audits of the supply chain.

Msc In Accounting And Finance, Accounting And Finance, Distinction

Activities and Societies: • Working Committee Member (UWE Sri Lankan Lions Students Society) - Assisted in initiating a musical band.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Special In Human Resources Mangement, First Class

Activities and Societies: Badminton Captain For 2019, Badminton colors for 2018, Best Freshman in Badminton for 2017

Maat (Uk), Accounting And Finance

Applied Skills Level

Status- (11 out of 13 exams completed) Completed exams - Business and Technology, Management Accounting, Financial Accounting, Corporate.

Diploma In Information Technology With E-Commerce (International)

Certificate In Second National Language (Tamil)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Member of Young Entrepreneurs Sri Lanka Club and Buddhist Students Movement

Education record

Level 1: Essentials, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce

I have just finished Level 1: Essentials! Looking forward to continuing my Digital Commerce journey.