Kalpani Abeysekara
Sharjah
Summary
Analytical finance professional possessing solid knowledge of basic and advanced accounting and financial principles and practices. Bringing over 5 years of comprehensive experience recording and crunching numbers to help choose and manage company investments and budgeting and strategizing tasks. Was successful in projects by directly saving costs over $ 60k and other quantitative/qualitative achievements via SLOB & Transport Management.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Executive - Costing (Reporting to CEO)
MAS Holdings
02.2022 - 11.2024
- Participate in budget preparation /OAR analysis/Implementation of ABC costing
- Seasonally revalidating the overhead costs & stimulate the production teams on improving efficiency to increase the profitability
- Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies by analyzing the customer profitability at pre-order level and working out post order variances
- Monitor the price trends in cost of sales and provide forecasts
- Analyze the fixed/variable costs, overhead costs and cost drivers of new products and provide profitability records to management in finalizing the prices of new products
- Engaged in projects to optimize effective RM utilization/SLOB reduction/determining effective chemical process/Transportation management
- Carryout month end-transactions and support finance team
Financial Supply Chain Analyst
Penguin Sportswear (Pvt) Ltd
07.2018 - 01.2022
- Prepare monthly forecast & fund requirement by analyzing the production requirement/required supplier lead times/ feasibility in releasing company funds communicate to the treasury and top management
- Monitor the utilization and distribution of RM and control the obsolete inventory and manage holding cost
- Validate and authorize the Purchase orders prioritizing the urgency & mitigating the chances for inventory over-stock
- Assist in reduction of stock holding and interest costs by WRT reallocations, implementing mechanisms to reduce WRT% & defining & meeting the EOQ for key suppliers
- Visualizing the upcoming fabric and trim inventory forecasts, plan for the utilization of available obsolete stock in the weekly supply-chain meeting for management decision making
- Leading the interpersonal skill development and speech master program for young employees and training new recruits
Trainee Accounts Executive
Watawala Tea Ceylon (Pvt) Ltd
07.2017 - 01.2018
- Handling receivables in Foreign sales and monthly journal entries
- Maintaining Staff Salary Journal
- Bank Reconciliations/Petty cash handling
Education
Professional Qualification - Management Accounting
Chartered Institute For Management Accounting
United Kingdom11-2019
BBA - Accounting And Finance
University of Peradeniya
Sri Lanka12-2017
Skills
- Financial analysis
- Management and cost accounting
- Account reconciliation
- Cash flow management
- Forecasting and financial reporting
- Working capital management
- Bank reconciliation
Technical Skills
Advanced Excel
Power BI
SAP Software
IFS Software
Quickbooks Accounting Package
Timeline
Executive - Costing (Reporting to CEO)
MAS Holdings
02.2022 - 11.2024
Financial Supply Chain Analyst
Penguin Sportswear (Pvt) Ltd
07.2018 - 01.2022
Trainee Accounts Executive
Watawala Tea Ceylon (Pvt) Ltd
07.2017 - 01.2018
Professional Qualification - Management Accounting
Chartered Institute For Management Accounting
BBA - Accounting And Finance
University of Peradeniya
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