Milantha Ekanayake Email & Phone Number

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

My current role at Icon Water as the Program Controls Officer is a crucial position in the organization due to nature of the responsibilities and breadth of the duties I have to perform. Some of the key responsibilities are;✔ Regulate the execution of investment decision document reviews, project stage gate and health check reviews for appropriate project members.✔ Develop, implement and maintain data & reporting to produce program controls reports consumed by the ACT Government, Board of Directors & Icon Water Executives.✔ Manage the quality of project/ program data through effective liaising with Project Managers and other subject matter experts.✔ Proactively provide feedback to Project Managers to ensure adjustments are made on a timely basis with minimal disruption to the projects & programs.✔ Review and report on project resource assignments, utilization, expenditures/ financials, shortages, competencies and requirements.✔ Direct Project Managers to develop fully resourced project estimates and schedules, as well as, providing consultation to produce timely and accurate reports.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Was responsible for carrying out the duties of Manager Program Controls while he's on parental leave for a month and a half.The duties included:✔ Manage and lead the Program Controls team with month-end financial activities.✔ Facilitating Project/ Program Management decision making for the Investment Review Committee responsible for 0.8B worth planned capital works.✔ Govern and quality-gate the project stage gate proposals prior to submission for approvals✔ Assisting the General Managers and (ICT/ Engineering) Delivery Branch Managers for data-driven decision making.✔ Overseeing the program controls reporting produced for the ACT Government, Icon Water Board of Directors and Executives.✔ Advising Portfolio & Strategic Planning teams for long-term decision making

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Key responsibilities of coordinating enterprise-wide Program Control Management activities, including;✔ Support the development and monitoring of projects, programs and portfolio reports and validateagainst business requirements.✔ Proactively provide feedback to Project Managers to ensure adjustments are made on a timely basis with minimal disruption to the project.✔ Manage the quality of data through effective liaising with Project Managers and other subjectmatter experts.✔ Review and report on resource assignments, utilization, costs, shortages, competencies andrequirements.✔ Coordinate and participate in document reviews, project stage gate and health check reviewswith appropriate team members.✔ Assist PMs to develop fully resourced project estimates and schedules, as well as the ability to produce timely and accurate reports.✔ Build and maintain relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and support the Program Controls Manager to ensure successful implementation of business improvementinitiatives.✔ Proactively identify problems and opportunities for continuous improvement. Participate in theimplementation of initiatives and help embed continuous improvement into Business-As-Usual activities.✔ Develop Power BI reporting for various business initiatives.✔ Maintain the Program Controls SharePoint sites and PMIS Administration.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

👉🏻 Project Domains: Information Security & Governance / Business & Audit Requirements Implementations (IT Systems, Policies & Procedures)👉🏻 Key Responsibilities; • Aiding senior management in making data-driven decision-making • Assisting auditing committees, and management to perform audits • Data gathering, analysis and reporting (Auditing/ Business Processes/ Performance/ Incidents/ Business Analysis) • Planning, Designing, Developing and Assisting project implementations for internal business units (Finance/ HR/ Learning/ Projects/ Revenue/ CRM etc.) • Assisting business stakeholders to implement IT-based systems following set industry standards (DevSecOps/ GDPR/ ICOFR etc.) • Conducting periodic KPI checks and mitigate the shortfalls • Process enhancements (RPA, Power Apps, Dashboarding, Process Automations)👉🏻 Highlights • Recognized as a top performer in the Organization for FY2021 • Promoted to Senior Business Analyst position based on the performance and delivery of multiple successful projects including Cloud ERP modules (Finance/ Revenue/ PPM), Performance Management/ Process Improvements with RPA, Automation etc. • Successfully concluded the audit cycles (internal and external) closing identified deficiencies • Conducted more than 30+ compliance and KPI-based reviews and activities till June 2022 • Assisted multiple internal business units to implement systems and standards in accordance with the senior management direction

Colombo

👉🏻 Project Nature: Information Security & Governance / Audit Requirements Implementations (Policies & Procedures, Process Improvements)👉🏻 Key Responsibilities; • Planning & performing compliance reviews including audit activities • Aiding senior business stakeholders to comply with audit standards • Assisting business stakeholders to implement IT systems related to information security • Conducting risk assessments and reporting identified vulnerabilities/ threats • Data analytics and perform high critical reviews (manual & tool based) • Data gathering, analysis and reporting (Audit/ Business/ Performance/ Incidents/ Business Analysis) • Planning, Designing, Developing and Assisting project implementations for internal business units (Finance/ HR/ Learning/ Projects/ Revenue/ CRM etc.)👉🏻 Highlights • Recognized as a top performer in the Organization for FY1920 • Successfully closed the audit cycles (internal & external) closing identified deficiencies • Conducted more than 60+ compliance and KPI based reviews and activities in during the Financial year

Colombo

Engaged with SOx (Sarbanes–Oxley) compliance assurance reviews, testing to facilitate smooth audit cycles throughout each financial year. SOx compliance tasks which includes; DBA and Privileged users review across different application and infrastructure platforms; System operations reviews such as backup reviews, concurrent jobs reviews, system logging and tracking reviews; change reconciliation analysis; etc. Also responsible for liaising with multi-disciplinary teams to complete security project requirement targets and assuring overall company compliance. Addition to that, performing ad-hoc forensic analysis based on abnormal system behaviors, transactions and preparing consolidated reports to management and governance bodies. Furthermore, playing a stretch role of process improvement analytic functions such as improving existing internal processes, reducing bottlenecks, introducing new technologies & tools etc.

Colombo

✔️ Overall ResponsibilitiesEnsuring applications, processes and the services support for internal business operations are up-to industry standards as well as industry norms, and collaboratively work with internal and external auditors to make financial, core business modules are operating as expected and not deviated.✔️ Periodical ReviewsCarrying out predefined governance reviews on periodic basis (daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly) to ensure that the preventive and detective information security controls are in place and operational on the enterprise applications (ERPs, Cloud platforms, in-house applications, IT platforms etc.) ✔️ Audit Engagements (Internal and External)Supporting auditors to perform SOX 404 testing and help the company to realign, readjust IT systems/ business operations in accordance with industry standards and practices such as ISO 21000, GDPR etc.✔️ Control and monitoring Change Management for Enterprise Applications and IT Infrastructures.✔️ Liaising with internal teams on operations, procedures and practicesGuiding and helping the internal developments, business consulting, quality assurance, database administrative teams on the best practices which they should follow in order to maintain the operational consistency on information security controls.✔️ Reporting, Analytics and Dash-boardingCreating analytical reports to identify the trends, performance of the company and publish to management. (Tools: MS PowerBI, ServiceNow Analytics, Pivots etc.) Also facilitating effective and efficient decision making for higher management and internal teams by linking the existing data sources into one single platform and creating dashboards.✔️ Improving existing governance processesProactively changing the way of doing things to facilitate easy operations of Governance activities such as Business Process improvements using BPMNs, RPA, Automated scripting; Developing process/ procedure models to standardize operations.

Colombo

✔️ Overall Job responsibilities:Collaboratively worked with IT, Network, Systems, Security, Implementations and Application support teams to make sure the high-level project management operations were carried on and the targets, objectives of the respective projects were achieved on-time, on-scope, within-budget, and with expected quality.✔️ Business Analyst Perspective:Liaising between external customers, vendors, project personnel, team members and with higher management to communicate and handle the requirements from each-end and making sure the requirements were clearly communicated and implemented also are up-to desired expectations.✔️ Project Management Perspective:Communicating between project stakeholders (customers, implementation teams), initiating preliminary meetings and preparing project plans. Also following up the project management primary principles of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and reporting to higher management on progress.✔️ Analytics and Reporting:Collecting and extracting data and information from existing sources(applications, data dumps, reports, excels, XML) and analyzing, preparing analytical reports from them, on the requests of higher management to facilitate and help the efficient decision making on current and future directives of the company.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Milantha is one of the co-founders of UMiCODE Group and currently holds the appointed advisory position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) providing his consultancy to the overall operations and management of the company.UMiCODE Group is a Technology Services Management company, that caters to Global Enterprises assisting in terms of designing, developing, and launching their corporate systems and affiliated technical services. In addition to corporate application development, UMiCODE Group provides;☑️ Business Analysis☑️ 2D/ 3D Graphics & Animation Designing☑️ Web Application Design & Development☑️ Mobile App Development☑️ Video Creation & Editing☑️ Search Engine Optimization (SEO)☑️ Content Development☑️ Digital Marketing Consultancy☑️ Social Media Optimization (SMO): to their exclusive clientele across the globe.Furthermore, UMiCODE team powered by experienced business analysts, designers, developers, and QA engineers who can provide state-of-the-art customized software solutions based on clients’ requirements.

Kandy

On-Site training focused on management of new media and technology

Masters Of Information Security, Information Security

Bsc In It (Hons) (Spc. In Information Systems Engineering), Information Systems Engineering

Successfully completed the Degree with a second upper honors division pass.

English Language And Speaking, General

Education record

Activities and Societies: Member of schools swimming club, Debating Team, Air force cadet platoon, and held the positions as secretary.

Diploma In Computer Science, Information Technology, A+

Activities and Societies: Best Performer (2010 Batch)