Nuwan Ranasinghage
Dubai
Summary
A highly motivated, self-confident and organized natural leader with ability to communicate effectively at all levels to influence change based upon factual evidence. Highly productive in fast paced environment while keeping a positive attitude in any situations of stress and conflict. Have a wide range of skills and experience and personal characteristics to provide the flexible approach.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Franchise Manager
Mercure Hotel Suites & Apartments FZCO
12.2022 - Current
- Developing marketing strategies to promote the company’s products or services in local markets
- Knowing the Hotel Franchise Agreement and lease contracts in detail.
- Studies market trends to maximise profits and identify opportunities.
- Assesses financials for legal compliance
- Review financial reports to find ways to reduce costs.
- Review and manage operating budgets, capital budgets and marketing plans.
- Coordinating with Management in the company to ensure that all operations are running smoothly
- Developing training programs for employees and managers
- Recruiting prospective staff based on their business experience and personal characteristics
- Managing ongoing operations by overseeing staff members, making operational decisions, and maintaining relationships with customers
- Performing on-site property inspection and spot deficiencies in cleanliness, service levels, and property condition
- Developing, leading and executing purchasing strategies
- Crafting negotiation strategies and closing deals with optimal terms
Finance Manager
Mercure Hotel Suites & Apartments
02.2019 - 12.2022
- Enhancing safety of organization funds
- Maximizing returns from investments
- Providing business support
- Leading, mentoring, and monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency in process operations
- Monitoring day-to-day general accounting transactions including payroll, payables, and stores, and ensuring that all financial transactions are accounted for in accordance with accepted standards
- Reviewing bank reconciliation statements, monthly payroll, monthly closing J.V(s), monthly profit and loss report, and general ledger reconciliation report
- Coordinating and supervising internal and external auditors and resolving their queries
- Training colleagues in the accounts department on their jobs
- Ensuring a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and victimization
- Treating complaints of harassment and discrimination promptly and confidentially
- Treating customers and colleagues from all cultural groups with respect and sensitivity.
Credit Manager
Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
07.2015 - 02.2019
- Ensuring all transfers to city ledger through night auditor/income auditor agree with the correct account
- Handling major accounts such as Government and Siemens with special care and invoicing
- Verifying the accuracy of balances of accounts receivable
- Issuing timely reminders and collection letters
- Verifying the daily credit limit exceeds for in-house guest balances and following up with the front office manager for such cases
- Handling all credit requests from in-house guests
- Communicating with the bank regarding all credit card-related matters
- Observing the credit policies and SOPs of the management
- Systematically following up on the collection of outstanding accounts in a manner that will yield the best timely results while maintaining good relations with customers
- Investigating disputed charges and following up on queries raised by debtors
- Investigating customers' creditworthiness and recommending credit approval or disapproval to the management
- Maintaining separate updated sequential listings of approved credit account holders and non-approved applications and circulating these listings to concerned departments
- Updating the Assistant Director of Finance related to major issues in credit
- Supervising colleagues within the department, ensuring that the correct standards and methods of service are practiced as stated in the department operations manual and credit policy
- Verifying and approving the GC report
- Monitoring AR Ledger and Aging report on a daily basis
- Evaluating all transactions related to AR
- Maintaining and verifying the credit limit of each AR account
- Identifying training needs and planning training programs for employees
- Training all involved employees such as front office, reservation F&B cashiers to ensure continued adherence to established credit procedures
- Assisting in the training of subordinates as part of the effort to build an efficient team and take an active interest in their individual development and welfare
- Checking the aging analysis, tour operator rates/invoices/voucher, and conducting monthly credit meetings
- Analyzing trends in accounts receivable balances or significant changes in payment patterns and recapping major collection problems for monthly credit meetings
- Recommending the writing-off of uncollectible accounts
- Preparing month-end reports
- Conducting staff yearly performance appraisals
- Preparing month-end reports and ensuring all ledgers tally.
Accounts Payable Officer
Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
11.2013 - 07.2015
- Posting journal entries and allocating expenses and revenues in the accounting computer software
- Verifying payment accounts, entered information into systems to ensure printed checks and contact with customers
- Assisting in the maintenance and completion of general ledgers
- Responsible for timely payments of dealer invoices
- Confirming that the remittance documents are signed and stamped by the accounts manager before dispatching them to the vendors
- Ensuring that payments against invoices are done as per the organization's contracts and policies
- Confirming the terms of payment with the vendor and making arrangements for payment of bills
- Reconciling vendor statements and researching variances.
Cost Control Clerk
Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
05.2013 - 11.2013
- Reviewing the daily intake of products into the hotel and ensuring accurate pricing and quantity of goods received
- Helping control the stores by ensuring accuracy of inventory and stock control inventory and stocktaking of various stores
- Alerting the Cost Controller of slow-moving goods and goods nearing expiry dates to reduce waste and alter product purchasing to accommodate
- Recipe costing of new menus and suggesting sale prices
- Updating existing recipe costing with current purchase prices
- Verifying spoilage reports and approving beverage issues from outlets
- Performing yield tests of meat, fish, and juices
- Checking all Food & Beverage checks with KOTs and making quarterly, half-yearly, and yearly Food & Beverage revenues and cost analysis
- Conducting a market survey of food products, especially fruits and vegetables
- Advising all concerned and raising alarms when expenses and costs are high and not in line with revenues generated
- Acting in accordance with fire, health, and safety regulations and following the correct procedures when required.
Purchasing Officer
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa
10.2010 - 04.2013
- Completing all administrative procedures concerning allocated requests and orders
- Selecting best price quotations and ensuring the best quality for all received orders upon order allocation confirmation
- Querying and clarifying any concerns regarding received purchase requests data with the initiating department
- Coordinating with buyers on all matters concerning allocated requests, best practices to process (quotes), and complete (delivery) within a logical time period
- Checking and ensuring that all approved and authorized purchase orders are timely forwarded to the concerned vendors
- Reviewing and updating all personally entered price quotations, supplier's data, and dates
- Interacting with vendors for new products available in the market to serve as possible alternatives for used products, informing concerned parties, requesting samples for onward testing purposes, and providing proof that the product is of the same quality but at a better price
- Obtaining competitive quotations for hotel requirements and ensuring that the best product is sourced and purchased, using group-nominated suppliers where applicable
- Ensuring locally nominated supplier information is kept current
- Managing the database of active local contracts with suppliers
- Adhering to quality procedures and standards and overseeing purchasing administration such that all Hilton Worldwide policies and standards are upheld
- Maintaining a record of commitments for all budgets and ensuring that the relevant senior managers are constantly informed of updates
- Ensuring a comprehensive system for allocating and reconciling purchase orders
- Monitoring all areas of purchasing, including contracts, leases, and nominations
- Preparing month-end accounts reports accurately and timely
- Executing tasks/requests as instructed by hotel management.
Receiving Officer
Habtoor Grand Resort & Spa
12.2007 - 11.2008
- Efficiently following the orders of the supervising authority and reporting to the same
- Counting, weighing, and sorting all inbound goods and authenticating the receipt of the same in accordance with the shipping note
- Inspecting the received goods, making note of any damages and discrepancies, and immediately reporting the same
- Making sure that all goods are received under HACCP standards
- Keeping a record of all received goods
- Proposing suggestions to the Purchasing Manager regarding the documentation, storage, and procurement of goods
- Coordinating with the Storekeepers and other workers of the organization for the smooth receiving of goods
- Completing all legal formalities, procedures, and paperwork for receiving the goods.
Assistant Store Keeper
Habtoor Grand Resort & Spa
12.2007 - 11.2008
- Maintaining the availability of all store items
- Making purchase requests and forwarding them to purchasing for LPO
- Ordering all store items from the respective suppliers
- Receiving all deliveries coming from the suppliers
- Checking the temperature and expiry of all deliveries
- Checking that all items are in good condition and of good quality
- Issuing all approved requisitions to their respective departments
- Posting all requisitions and invoices in the system
- Conducting end-of-the-month inventory
- Reporting and documenting inventory
- Updating all par stock for consumption.
Education
General Certificate OL -
Bandaranayke National Collage
Veyangoda, Srilanka09.1996
MBA - MBA (in Progress)
Oxford College of Business
100 Thurstan Rd, Colombo 00700, Sri LankaSkills
- Leadership
- Strategic thinking
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Analysis
- Attention to detail
- Organization and time management
- Ability to work independently
- Coaching and mentoring
- Adaptability
Accomplishments
- Model employee April 2007 at Habtoor Grand Resort & Spa
- Ambassador of the month November 2013 at Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
- Certified PIC( level 3) by Dubai Municipality Food Control Department.
Languages
English
Hindi
Sinhalese
Crosstrainings
- Cashier in Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa
- Purchasing Clerk in Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/27/80
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Sri Lankan
- Marital Status: Married
- Visa Status: Employment
References
Up on request
Training
- Basic Food Hygiene Training Program conducted by Johnson Diversely
- Basic Food Hygiene Level 2 Training Program conducted by Dubai Municipality Food Control Department.
- Customer care skills training Program on 2008 at Habtoor Grand Resort &Spa
- Attended fire safety training Program in 2007, 2009 at Habtoor Grand Resort.
Timeline
Assistant Franchise Manager
Mercure Hotel Suites & Apartments FZCO
12.2022 - Current
Finance Manager
Mercure Hotel Suites & Apartments
02.2019 - 12.2022
Credit Manager
Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
07.2015 - 02.2019
Accounts Payable Officer
Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
11.2013 - 07.2015
Cost Control Clerk
Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa
05.2013 - 11.2013
Purchasing Officer
Habtoor Grand Beach Resort & Spa
10.2010 - 04.2013
Receiving Officer
Habtoor Grand Resort & Spa
12.2007 - 11.2008
Assistant Store Keeper
Habtoor Grand Resort & Spa
12.2007 - 11.2008
General Certificate OL -
Bandaranayke National Collage
MBA - MBA (in Progress)
Oxford College of Business
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