Bank and Finance

1. Chief Financial Officer- (Sri Lanka telecom)

Description about Company

Sri Lanka Telecom PLC is at the forefront Sri Lanka’s blue-chip company. The company
grows upon solid foundation with the government of Sri Lanka holding majority ownership
Sri Lanka telecom is the county’s unequivocal leader in telecommunication, providing a
range of modern services and facilities to a customer base which exceeds five and half
million people.

Qualifications

 The ideal candidate should be a member of ICASL/CIMA/ACCA preferably with a

postgraduate degree.
 A track record of financial management at the senior managerial level with over 10
years experience.
 Successful track record of Change management and Project management.
 Possess strong commercial acumen and a broad strategic perspective
 Be a resilient leader with excellent interpersonal skills.
 Have exposure to the rules and regulation of the stock Exchange.

Key Tasks

 Adhere to financial policies and procedures.

 Be responsible for the aspect of business plans and budgetary control function of the
company.
 Internal and External financial reporting
 Implementation of strategic financial and operational management information system
and effective treasury management of investment portfolios.
 Managing and coordinating with financial institution and providing strategies to
improve stakeholder value.
 General administration, management and coordination of functional department
within the finance division.
 2. Financial controller - (Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital)

Qualifications

ACA, ACCA or ACMA or Master in Financial management/ Management with 3 years’ post
qualifications experience

Key tasks

 The position requires a result oriented, self confident personality, who will be in
charge of the financial function of the Hospital and will be responsible for accounting,
budgeting/ financial planning, management and stores management.
 The respective candidate should be holding a post of a senior officer and the
experience in the health sector is more preferable.

Responsibilities

 Management of full spectrum of corporate, financial and accounting functions

including accounting, treasury, cash management, costing and tax functions, internal
control and statutory matters for the Hospital.
 To be responsible for the preparation of Annual Financial Budget ensuring provision
of sufficient resources and assets to attend organizational objectives.
 To supervise the preparation of monthly financial report including expenditures,
variances against budget, balance sheet etc
 Provide timely reports and advise the management on the status of the financial
position, operational results and the financial implications of various operational
decisions.
 To oversee, review and implement accounting and finance policies and procedures
and to ensure staff compliance as well as up to date of any new accounting and
reporting standards.

3. Chief internal Auditor –(Lankaputhra development Bank Ltd)

Lankaputhra Development Bank is a fully owned Bank in Sri Lanka, focused at rural
sector development of the country .We invite applications from confident of rising to
our expectation and meeting the fallowing basic requirements.
Qualifications

Applicants should be associates or fellows of ICASL

Skill profile

 Aptitude to deliver results in a target based, high pressure business environment.

 Highly skilled professional preferably from the financial sector with good
knowledge in business process, internal system and IT control and Risk management.
 Be self- motivated and command leadership and management qualities.
 Good communication and strong analytical skills
 Excellent report writing skills.

Experience

Applicants should have 10 years managerial experience of which 5 years of post-qualifying

experience as an auditor in a financial/mercantile/audit institution.

Those who with banking qualification/experience would be at a distinct advantage

4. Finance manager (Sri Lanka institute of tourism & hotel

management)

About the institute

SLITHM is the premier national institute in the country in providing the necessary training
for the development of human resource for the hospitality industry.

Qualification & experience

A member of the institute of Charted Accountant of Sri Lanka/ UK/ Charted institute of
management Accountants of UK/ Association of Charted Certified Accountants, UK

Or

A recognized University Degree in Finance and Business Administration in finance with a

minimum of 15 years experience at a managerial level.

Age Limit :

Should be not less than 25 years and not more than 50 years.
 5. Branch Manager (Central Finance Company PLC.)

About the company

Central Finance Company PLC. has always been at the vanguard of innovation with solutions
that have seen its customer base grow from strength to strength. Its sought after portfolio of
services includes leasing, higher purchases, deposits/savings & vehicle Hire.

Branch Manager

The ideal candidate would be a person with a sound educational background with a minimum
of 5 years managerial experience in Credit & Recoveries in the financial sector.

Tasks & duties:

 Smooth functioning of the branch

 Communicate effectively
 Provide the right motivation to employees
 Achieve mutually agreed targets & acquire significant clients.

IT & System management

1. Head of IT-(MSL Management System (Pvt) Ltd)

Operating in an extremely competitive market, our client is a market leader in the banking
sector, rapidly expanding with a large island wide branch network. The Bank, with ambitious
growth plans to further expand its operation now requires tireless, ambitious, conscientious
and commercially astute professionals to spearhead this challenge.

Key Requirements and Experience

 A first degree with 1 st class/2nd Upper from a recognized university and a post
graduate degree in the field of ICT from a recognized university.
 10 years experience after obtaining the above qualification with more than
3years at a senior managerial level in a recognized institution.
 Experience in handling large ICT projects.
 Age below 55 years as at the closing date of application.

Accountabilities are;
  Conceptualize, define, develop and implement an IT vision, strategies and
action plan to achieve corporate objectives of the bank.
 Manage and be responsible for overall function of the IT systems, personnel,
services and infrastructures.
 Formulate IT plans and related budgets and monitor its implementation.
 Initiate dialogue with ICT users and vendors to maintain system efficiency and
service standards of ICT.
 Evaluate new hardware and software technology and assess its applicability to
the requirements of the Bank.
 Report the performance and significant trends to the Corporate Management
and the Board of Directors for consideration and necessary action.
 Ensure IT adheres to all regulatory and legal requirement (The central bank’s
 Rules and principles)

2. Post of System Administration

Responsibilities:

 Oversee new system facilitation, system upgrades/ enhancements and internal/

External application upgrades
 Negotiate contracts with manufactures for software, hardware and consulting services
where necessary.

Requirements:

 Knowledge and experience in Computer Hardware maintenance, Windows and SQL

is essential.
 Qualification in maintaining a network would be an added advantage.
 The ideal candidate should have a good command English.
 Possess IT Diploma from recognized University/Institution or an equivalent
qualification.
 Knowledge on ERP system and Crystal Report would be an added advantage.
 Must be a motor vehicle driving license holder.
Personal Specification

 Age between 25-35

 Friendly Personality with good command of English and Sinhala languages.
 Excellent organizational and time management skills.
 Must be willing to travel to the project areas.

3. Software Engineers – (WSo2 Mobile)

Qualification

 Believe JavaScript can save the world

 Know how the web distributed system work
 Can debate equally well about native vs. html, taking either side
 Have cooked well with object orientation, but have also tasted functional
programming.
Are naturally curious, analytical minded, and willing to explore the unknown.

Sales and Marketing

1. Sales Representative – (Millers brewery limited )

The only 100% Sri Lankan owned BREWERY. Founded in 1963, Millers Brewery owns many
of Sri Lankan’s famous brands of Beer.

Job responsibilities

 Be responsible for the volume and value targets in the assigned market.
 Develop outlet level plans to achieve the targets and ensure proper coverage of the
market, to provide superior service to outlets.
 Be responsible for collections.
 Manage service standards in the outlets.

Qualification, Experience and Other requisites

 Overall 4 years in sales, as a sales representative.

 Should have a clear work records is a must.
 Experience in FMCG is a preferably in a large Local or Multinational organization.
 Passes in Math and English at G.C.E O\L is mandatory
 “A” passes in A\L will be advantage.
 Sound understanding of selling techniques.
  Should possess excellent communication skills.

2. Marketing Manager

Our client has existing animal Nutrition business in Nigeria and the potential to develop
substantial new business through an increased product portfolio from its new parent company
with interest in develop the business in new markets.

Responsibilities

 Define positioning of each product in Nigerian market.

 Work closely together with animal Feed Division in order to develop a balanced
portfolio of products.
 Manage profitability/Margins, define priorities and business plans together with
the General manger, and external consultants.
 Provide technical support, in conjunction with company Technical managers and
principals
 Manage product launches including communication materials together with
principals.

Job requirements/Skills

 Preferably educated in a relevant biological science to MSc level and

entrepreneurial self-starter, but team player.
 A broad animal Nutrition background and market knowledge.
 Identify and develop market opportunities.
 Commercial skills to manage supply chain, business to business sale and
profitability.
 Continuous improvement.
 Strong interpersonal relationship skill to develop long term relationship with
customers and principals.

3. Area sales Executives

A world-renowned superior brand of home appliances, needs a team of high caliber, efficient,
dedicated, self motivated and result-oriented personnel.

Key Requirements
  Male, below 38 years of age.
 Pleasing personality with self-motivation to achieve targets.
 Posses a valid driving/riding license.
 Fluency in all three language (Sinhala, Tamil, English)
 Computer literacy is essential

Experience

 Minimum 2 Years of experience in selling home appliance, consumer electronics,

electrical or hardware trade.
 Experience in similar capacity will be an added advantage.
 Academic qualification in sales and marketing will be a definite added advantage.

Marketing officer

Qualifications:

 Confident personality
 Sound educational background
 Great communication skills in Sinhala & English
 Ability to negotiate

Tasks & responsibilities

 Deliver superior customer service

 Maintain & build customer relationship
 Promote the company’s product portfolio.
Human Resource Management

Human Resource Manger ( Lankaputhra Development bank)

Qualification

A degree from a recognized university or a full professional qualification obtained from a

recognized Institute such as NIBM, IPM, etc in the discipline of Human Resource
Management or Personal management.

A qualified member of a recognized Professional body related to HR or Banking.

Preferably with a MBA from a recognized university.

Experience

 Over 08 years of which 05 years Managerial experience in a Bank/financial institute

or a Government or Private sector reputed institution.

Skills profile

 Thorough knowledge in overall HR and Administration practices.

 Strong leadership skills
 Effective problem solving skills.
 Well organized team player with good personal relationship skills.
 Have good communication and negotiation skills.
 Fully conversant with all aspects of labour laws.

General

 Age below 50 years at the date of closing of application to recruit on permanent basis.
 Applicants aged above 50 years will be considered to recruit on contract bsis.
Engineering

Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC, request application form qualified persons for the
following positions at their factory in Trincomalee.

Mechanical Engineer

Education qualification & experience

 BSc. Engineering (Mechanical) form a recognized University with 3 years working

Or
NDT/ HNDE (Mechanical) or equal ant qualifications with 10 years working experience
 Should have experience in demand in fast growing a recognized industrial organization
mainly in a production and maintenance.
 Willingness to work extended hours to meet demand in fast growing business.
 Age should be around 40 years.

Electrical Engineer

Education Qualification & Experience

 BSc. Engineering (Electrical form) a recognized University with 3 years working

experience or NDT/ HNDE (Mechanical) or equal ant qualifications with 10 years
working experience
 Should have experience in demand in fast growing a recognized industrial organization
mainly in a production and maintenance.
 Computer literacy is essential.
 Experience in trouble shooting of PLC based control system will be added advantages.
 Age should be around 40 years

Baurs & Company

About the company

Baur & co. (Pvt.) Ltd. Is a long established diversified trading and manufacturing company.
They recognize that their employees are our most important resource. They are committed to
their development and professional growth.

Vacancy
Maintenance manager

Requirement

 Bachelor of science degree in mechanical Engineering with 5 years experience or

national diploma in technology (Engineering) with 5 year experience.
 Knowledge in electronic and electrical engineering will be an advantage
 Excellent communication skills with proficiency in English and computer literacy
 Conversant with installation, operation and maintenance of machinery
 Age below 35 years

Chevron Company

1. Lead technical assistant

Responsibilities

 Pay an important role in providing technical support to build the reliability based
lubricant platform for customers, and help strengthen Chevron’s lubricant expert position
in Sri Lanka.
 Assist and implement initiatives by Lead Technical Manager in maintaining product
stewardship
 Conduct workshops, seminars, lube surveys in consultation with field sales staff
 Carry out inspections with regard to customer complains on product quality & integrity
 Coordination and full implementation of in-service oil monitoring
 Respond to customer inquiries – 1st contact for customer queries

Requirements

 Preferred candidate should be below 35 years

 Should possess a Bachelor’s Degree Science (chemistry major preferred) or Chemical
Engineering or Physics
 Relevant experience in the chemical industry
 Good knowledge of formulations – composition , applications and product
performance
 Should possess strong analytical skills with the ability to combine technical/ process
knowledge with business understanding to be able to articulate simple, practical
solutions for technical queries/ issues within standards.
Education
The British school in Colombo

The British school in Colombo seeks to appoint enthusiastic, experienced and detected teachers to the
following positions with effect from September.

Vacancy

Examinations officer

An experienced teacher and administrator required to organize and coordinate edexcel and Cambridge
IGCSE and A level examinations as well as internal school examinations.

Candidates are required

 To coordinate all student information

 To organize all public examinations (educe and Cambridge IGCSE and A Level)
 To be available for cover supervision

Teacher of Tamil language

A qualified and experienced Tamil teacher required to teach Tamil to senior school students.

Vacancy for teacher (International school)

PHYSICS

Science Graduate with physics as a subject for the Degree. 2-3 years experience in teaching London O/L
and A/L (Edexcel Syllabus).

ECONOMICS

Graduate with a business Management or Economics special Degree. Experienced in teaching Economics
for the London O/L and A/L (Edexcel syllabus).
Overall Analyzing

By analyzing the ‘Sunday times’ newspaper on 09th June, 16th June & 23rd June we identified that
different kind of vacancies were published. Basically we categorized those vacancies as follows:

 Bank and finance

 Sales and marketing
 Human resource management
 IT & system management
 Engineering
 Education & others

Most of the vacancies were published in the newspapers within the whole three weeks. Most of
the vacancies were focused on the commercial sector. For the most executive level vacancies
were required ,a recognized university degree or fully professional qualifications related to
relevant post. The age limit for the executive level vacancies should not be less than 25 years &
not more than 50 years.

But for the lower level vacancies, partly qualifying the professional courses were sufficient. The
age limit for the lower level vacancies should be not less than 19 years & not more than 23 years.
Also 1-3 years working experiences were required as additional qualification. Most of the
vacancies required secondary level education (GCE O/L & GCE A/L) as the educational
qualifications.

Most of the vacancies mentioned the tasks, duties, responsibilities & skills which are related to
the each vacancy.

In addition to the communication skills, leadership skills, team spirits were required as soft
skills. Salary doesn’t mention in any vacancy. Salary can be negotiable.

In some vacancies they are conduct general knowledge test, performance test & analytical skill
tests to select the most appropriate candidate. Most of the companies mentioned a brief
introduction about their company in most of the vacancies. HR manager was the person who
should responsible for the every vacancy which published in the news paper. All the candidates
should report to the HR manager of the relevant company.
BEST FIVE ADVERTISEMENTS IN EACH CATEGORY

1. Finance ( Etisalat Lanka (PVT) ltd)

We selected this vacancy because of this following reasons

 Used eye-catching and colourful design to attract the viewers.

 Graphical shapes, pictures and symbols which are unique to their company. So the
viewers can easily recognized the company without looking the advertisement.
 Use attractive phrases and terms to motivate the candidate to applying the post.
 Not only they used their advertisement for vacancy but also for the advertising
method.
 Added the advertisement in front page of the news paper
 Mentioned the short description about the etisalat company.
 Clearly mentioned the job profile and candidate profile.
2. IT and system management (WSO2 mobile)
 Published in a very summarized way
 Clearly mentioned the company mission “on to build a completely open source enterprise
mobile platform.”
 Use attractive phrases and terms to motivate the candidate to applying the post.
 Not only they used their advertisement for vacancy but also for the advertising method.
 Added the advertisement in front page of the news paper
 Used eye-catching and colourful design to attract the viewers.
 Graphical shapes, pictures and symbols which are unique to their company. So the
viewers can easily recognized the company without looking the advertisement.
3. Sales and Marketing- (Millers brewery limited)

 Clearly mentioned the job profile and candidate profile.

 Published in a very summarized way
 Graphical shapes, pictures and symbols which are unique to their company. So the
viewers can easily recognize the company without looking the advertisement.
 Use attractive phrases and terms to motivate the candidate to applying the post.

4. Human Resource Management ( Lankaputhra Development bank)

 Clearly mentioned the job profile and candidate profile.

 Clearly & briefly introduced about the bank.
 Have published half of page in the news paper.
 Candidates can confirm about the other benefits & other non monetary
allowances.
 Used bank’s logo and other relevant things & attractive attachments.

5. Engineering – (Tokyo Cement Company (Lanka) PLC)

 Use attractive phrases and terms to motivate the candidate to applying the post.
 Graphical shapes, pictures and symbols which are unique to their company. So the
viewers can easily recognize the company without looking the advertisement.
 Have published more than half of page in the news paper.

6. Education- (The British school in Colombo)

 Published in a very summarized way

 Clearly mentioned the job profile and candidate profile.
 Short and very attractive words had been used
 Use attractive phrases and terms to motivate the candidate to applying the post.