Dhiren Mapagunaratne

• Coordinating with sponsors and the organizing committee.
• Establishing connections and relationships with business partners.
• Managed the company's financial accounts.
• Coordinated with relevant sports ministry federations to ensure that we complied with the rules and regulations.
• Managed budgets and negotiated contracts.

• Employed full-time as a trainee at a money brokering firm which dealt with inter-bank forex trading, call money, term money and fixed income securities.
  • Involved in constantly coordinating the ongoing rates with our clients (Banks) about money market and capital market financial instruments.
  • I was tasked to perform brokerage calculations for the company.
  • Coordinate with the back office with regards to trade confirmations.
  • Tasked to make forecasts about currency fluctuations following certain economic indicators.

• I was involved in comprehending raw data which I then analyzed and simplified into charts that were to be reported to my reporting manager. For instance, I had to calculate the number of days that the company would be able to carry out its operations with its current available fuel capacity for that particular week as well as the next weeks forecasted number of days.
• Reporting this data was vital at a time of an economic crisis that we were facing because the company needed to plan out how much of production it's able to undertake in order to export its finished goods to its clients overseas.
• This also enhanced my familiarization with Microsoft excel since I had to deal with numbers and calculations majority of the time.
• Reported local and international news that could affect the company and came up with contingency planning methods, to my reporting manager.

• Pursued an internship at Bartleet IT for the sole purpose of understanding the concept of marketing the corporates product portfolio and primarily on how to enhance sales.
  • The head of department of marketing/ sales provided me with interesting tasks such as presentations and write ups. The presentations included formulating a product of my own and market it myself which primarily focused on how I strategically outstrip competition in the market.
  • Trained to promote and sell Bartleets products.
  • Gained skills and competence in marketing and persuasion techniques to convince potential clients to make purchases which enabled me to think out of the box.
  • Learned effective time management with regards to completing tasks within a stipulated time-frame.
  • My communication skills were enhanced.
  • Learned effective multitasking through this experience.