Chaya is equipped with the experience and requisite competencies entailed for management, finance, and auditing careers due to distinct posts she has both, played and contributed to, in Sri Lankan and Australian entities for the past 25 years. Currently, she is spear-heading the Finance Division at Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka as the Director – Finance.
Having her career origin at M/s Ernst & Young in 1997 and then at Auditor General’s Department with a decade of auditing experience, she has inclusively worked among the Board of Investment, Central Bank, Bank of Ceylon, Public Enterprises Reform Commission, and numerous foreign funded projects of UNDP, ADB and World Bank. As for her experience overseas, she has held positions as Finance Director, Grants Officer -Finance and as a Group Accountant at entities in Melbourne and Canberra.
Chaya has worked as the Deputy Director – Finance of PUCSL from 2010 to 2012, followed by her position as the Director -Finance & Administration of the Insurance Regulatory Commission. She then succeeded to her next placement as the Deputy Director General -Finance & Commerce at Urban Development Authority. On top of that, she has worked as the Deputy Project Director -Finance & Administration at the 1st Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank project alongside her commitments as the Project Accountant at Port City Development Project. She has represented Board of Directors at Waters Edge Ltd, Urban Investment & Development Company (Pvt) Ltd, Ocean View Development Company (Pvt) Ltd and Lanka Rest House (Pvt) Ltd.
Academically, she claims the Bachelor of Commerce special degree from University of Colombo and a Master of Business Administration from Deakin University, Australia. Professionally, she proceeds as an active fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Sri Lanka.
