ACCA Sri Lanka elects new President

ACCA's annual general meeting (AGM) was held on September 24 at the Cinnamon Grand Colombo. The new president for this year Nisreen Rehmanjee was elected.

Rehmanjee has over 15 years experience in taxation dealing with both national and international taxation. This includes a career spanning 10 years with KPMG, the last four of which were served as Tax Director.

Presently, she heads the tax function of the John Keells Group as Vice President and Tax Group Head.

She is also a recipient of the Chairman's award for outstanding performance within the John Keells Group in 2008/09.

"I'm truly honoured to be appointed as the president of ACCA - Sri Lanka for 2010/11 and to have such an excellent committee appointed alongside me.

"I believe, the ACCA qualification and the access to the vast pool of information and knowledge that I have as a member has been the differentiator that has allowed me to achieve what I have today.

"I encourage our members and students to also make maximum use of this knowledge base, I believe that it has more value when shared and look forward to working with other professional bodies/institutes in Sri Lanka for the betterment of the finance professional at large," Rehamanjee said.

Horana Plantation PLC Managing Director/CEO Rajiv Cassie Chitty was elected as Vice President and other members of the committee for this year are Commercial Bank CFO Nandika Buddhipala, HNB Bank's Dilshan Rodrigo, Amlin Consultant Partner Dhanushka Samarasinghe, Financial Consultant B H S Jayawardena, Retired Banker Cyril Mundy, Head of Finance Group Reporting and Performance Management PT Agro Harapan Lestari Kumudini Gunatilleke, Amba Research Associate Vice President Arshad Thameen, Amba Research Senior Vice President Chanakya Dissanayake, Lanka Asset Management Company Managing Director Channa de Silva, Hubert Anthony and Sons Finance Director Suranimala Anthony, Infomate CEO Jehan Perinpanyagam and World Bank Financial Management Specialist Supul Wijesinghe.