Nirash Amarasinghe Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities: • Act as the financials functional architect Workday. Provide expertise in multiple functional areas, including General Ledger, Account Posting Rule, Custom Validation (System controls), Business Process, Commitment and Obligation Ledger, Procurement, Foreign Currency Revaluation, and Business Asset Management, AP, AR, Configurable Security and Data Integration during project implementation. • Drive technical leadership and best practices for Workday across governance, architecture and methodologies. • Utilise Workday Report Writer setup comprehensive financial reporting, cost centre analysis, monthly & quarterly business reviews to support strategic initiatives to deliver optimised framework for the business with focus on Event, Product and Margin impact.• Solve complex Workday inter-system cross-functional issues and configuring the system to meet the business requirements and design specifications.• Provide strategic advice on Workday functional areas for the senior management, Tennis Australia (TA) & Member Association (MA) business partners and other stakeholders.• Keep the business updated with latest Workday financial product functionality releases and provide ongoing recommendations for system upgrades.• Strategic implementation of Workday Object driven Master Data Management (MDM) strategy for Adaptive Insights including financial consolidation, planning on budgeting, forecasting, driver-based data modelling and reporting.• Develop, configure, and maintain driver base Broadcast, Sponsor, Payroll, Capex and Workforce Planning models. Develop reports and dashboards using Adaptive and Office Connect for the TA and MA Boards and the Executive Leadership teams.• Drive and own TA & MA budgeting and forecasting process through Adaptive Insights, including planning cycle development, parameter setting and allocation, coordination of system budget entry with end users, consolidation, reconciliation, training and support.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities• Drive and own the annual budgeting and forecasting processes, recommend appropriate strategies and related interventions to ensure support the business with a key focus around profitability and growth.• Build detailed business case models, analyse financial implications to the existing business, drive the integration of the new business opportunity into our existing business processes for the Senior Leadership Team.• Review the business performance and produce insightful commentary on Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, forecast cash flow results, analyse movements in underlying business drivers.• End-to-end project management, effectively apply appropriate project management tools and methodology, business process mapping and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning and COGNOS TM1 Business Intelligence solutions. • Implement regular reporting of Metrics/KPI’s, financial reporting, cost centre analysis, monthly & quarterly business reviews to support strategic initiatives to deliver optimised framework for the business with focus on customer, product and margin impact.• Assist with the financial evaluation of major tenders, financial modelling, evaluate economic trends, conduct market research.• Liaise with Sales Managers then develop and support strategic initiatives to deliver effective promotional offers and frameworks.• Working collaboratively across departments to develop customer retention programs, product lifecycle strategies and advancing their analytical maturity with respect to customer lifecycle management.• Scenario modelling and customer profitability impacts assessments resulting from changes in customer behaviour and market dynamics.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities• Deliver comprehensive reporting and analysis of the highest quality in relation to sales, marketing, inventory & finance to support Sales and Operation Process (S&OP).• Supporting commercial decision-making processes by providing insightful data analysis, identification of wider business opportunities and assist long term strategy development.• Supporting the delivery of business objectives through the provision of robust financial modelling including margin analysis, operating cost management, brand profitability, category profitability, forecast accuracy, cash flow analysis, Capex and Opex, etc.• Develop & implement reporting process enabling the analysis of actual sales and gross profit movements against benchmarked budget.• Design and develop Business Intelligence solutions system for the Sales Team using COGNOS BI reporting platform in conjunction with sales at work (CRM) to track customer sales performance.• Liaise with front line managers to refine, evaluate and develop new TM1 solutions. This supports short & long-term business plan objectives for the business and highlights operational performance issues to senior management. • Liaising with Category Team to develop Gross Margin Return on Investment (GMROI) KPI reporting structure. This enables review and refinement of Product category range profitability.• Conduct impact analysis on contract pricing of customers, product revenue, & gross profit providing recommendations to support price adjustments and profit returns. • Develop supplier conformance reporting dashboard to illustrate DIFOT, FOB Price analysis, documentation and new product performance.• Undertake a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis on company promotional activities.• Developed comprehensive reporting metrics to the DC network to optimise Transport & Logistics efficiency and administration.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities • Build credibility of the Transport function so that the broader business recognises the Transport function as an integral part of the business unit’s ability to achieve business targets.• Implemented comprehensive end-to-end line item level PO management and container monitoring system to deliver greater visibility and stability across the business.• Conduct rates negotiations with international and domestic freight.• Provided strategic direction to organisation for port split and consolidate shipping process to ship containers directly to interstate warehouses to reduce transfer cost.• Successfully monitored and analysed inbound & outbound shipments, including working with carriers and 4 distribution centres.• Managed the consolidation of international shipping between China and Taiwan. • Implemented all supply chain changes necessary for FOB program shipments to regional DC’s with our offshore factories including the management of Bunnings compliance with our domestic team.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities• Raising international purchase orders for accessories, fabrics, finished goods• Set-up contracts & maintained process orders against overseas manufacturing• Updating Shipment Register and filing of contracts, order confirmations• Prepare shipping documentation for Imports and Exports and co-ordinate delivery of containers• Liaise with manufactures, finance, customs’ agents, freight forwarders and shipping lines• Preparation of all shipping documentation predominantly under Letter of Credits (LC’s)• Arrange for amendments to LC’s as required• Liaise with banks to negotiate favourable exchange rates for overseas T/T payments• Provide advice to the business regarding cost effective movement of freight/rates• Check/authorise all freight charges and disbursement invoices and customs clearances• Communicate local internal divisions and manufacturing departments on the progress of shipments from China• Calculation of product landed costing of purchases, arranging invoices for payments and telegraphic transfers• Efficiently utilised Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system to dispatch orders for customers• Annual reviews and negotiation of international and domestic freight rates

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities• Placement of purchase orders on overseas manufacturers• Booking space with forwarding agent/shipping line

Melbourne, Australia

ResponsibilitiesPreparation of tutoring material and correction of assignments and examination papers.

Bachelor Of Commerce - Bcom, Marketing And Finance

Dimploma, Marketing