Nirosha Vadivel

Nirosha is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and is also an associate member of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and graduated from the University of Sri Jayawardanapura. She has enormous exposure in local and overseas audits as well as consultancy assignments. She currently serves as an Audit Partner, Audit and Assurance of the Firm.

Prior to joining BDO, she served at KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton & Co, Sri Lanka for a period of 5 years and then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Botswana and served for another period of 5 years where she specialized in providing assurance and advisory services to entities in various industries including insurance industry. Altogether she carries more than 15 years of professional experience and of which more than 12 years are post qualification experience. Nirosha has gained experience in multiethnic and multicultural environments. She is specialized in general financial accounting, audit, management advisory assignments, internal audit, internal control, risk and Anti Money Laundering process etc. She has also extensive experience in assessing risk and assisting clients with improving risk management process in companies. During her career with audit and assurance sector, she has gained experience in auditing various sectors such as insurance, healthcare, pension funds, retail, imports and exports, manufacturing, construction, Not for profit and Governmental, leisure sectors etc.

Nirosha has undergone various technical trainings in Sri Lanka, Bangkok and Botswana on audit, internal audit methodologies, risk framework and local fund management framework and is a facilitator in conducting training sessions on accounting and internal and external audit methodologies. She serves as a technical marker as well as a shadow coordinator for annual reports awards conducted by CA Sri Lanka. Further, she serves as the partner in charge for Training and Development and System of Quality Management functions of the firm.

Areas of Expertise

• Statutory Audits
• Management Advisory and Support Services
• Internal Control & Corporate Governance
• Anti Money Laundering process and System of Quality Management process
• Training and development

Qualifications and Certifications

• B.Sc Accounting (Special)
• ACA
• ACMA
• ACPA