Senior Executive - Finance - Linea Aqua Pelawatte

Linea Aqua is a swimwear manufacturer, established as a joint venture between MAS Holdings and Speedo International in 2001. Linea Aqua operates across Sri Lanka and Vietnam, and in addition to swimwear, also offers activewear solutions to select customers, providing a comprehensive service across performance and lifestyle categories. Along with servicing its joint venture partner, Speedo, the company also services premier international brands such as In Private, Aerie, and Land’s End, and is the go-to manufacturer for high-performance swimwear worn by Olympic athletes.

We are looking for an individual responsible to maintain systems and processes for one plant and Business Divisions separately based on the group and company requirement.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive 100% system and process discipline of Aqua C&S and Seamless plants, warehouses and sub-contracting facilities by way of continuous System & Process Audits throughout the year, whilst ensuring all exceptions and deviations to the set processes are escalated at Senior management level with potential improvement options. Necessary corrective actions are taken immediately for the deviations, analyse and generating actionable insights via related SAP and other integrated system reports.
• System & Process Audits to be conducted at each physical location mentioned above quarterly to cover below areas/scope
• Introduce new key controls whilst strengthening current controls in place via development of new SOPs, prioritizing business risk areas in the end-to-end business process by way of analysing the financial statements in a timely and accurate manner to minimize the negative impact on business operations. Also, to implementation of Key Controls/ Processes to cover all value stream areas from Front End, Support Services, Manufacturing Operations.
• Finalizing the sales and Earnings for each financial period [Monthly and yearly] and ensuring the targeted/budgeted sales are achieved/followed to it’s set periods and making sure the same is accounted for through the system to recognize the accurate financials and guide the plants accordingly.
• Ensure zero IP related violations/concerns are escalated by the Customer and no products of Aqua division are pilfered by any internal or outside party by enabling periodic Brand Protection audits at all plant, hub and 3rd party manufacturing locations.
• Support the business by generating periodic [Weekly, Monthly] exception reports based on various SAP and other data sources, analyze the same and share the exceptions with senior management for key decision making.
• Ensure physical existence of all Material Inventories (RM/WIP/FG) of the C&S and Seamless & other warehouses (Based on the agreed targets as of a given day) by conducting Bi-annual Inventory Counts and regular cycle counts/audits for all local, overseas plants, FG & RM Hubs and 3rd party sub-contracting locations.
• Ensure 100% achievement of Group Governance requirements set by Group Risk & Controlling Team and Group Finance.
• Performing Business Scenario Testing related to all SAP Implementation projects [as instructed by Manager] covering expansions, acquisitions, mergers, and new business models across C&S and Seamless business ensuring compliance to set system and process discipline to ensure achieve business objectives.

Skill and Qualifications:

• Degree in Finance or Equivalent qualification
• Good Knowledge of SAP system and Excel 
• Analytical and Sound Auditing Skill.
• Additional requirement
• Understanding of the Business and overall MAS Business environment
• Excellent Interpersonal, Communication and Presentation skills