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Over the past 33 years, W.R. Rodrigo & Co., has been a trusted advisor for a large pool of clients across many sectors such as construction, hospitality, agriculture, real estate, manufacturing, fishery, information technology, and local trading. Correspondingly, W.R. Rodrigo & Co. is among leading professional service networks in Sri Lanka with the acquaintance. We help organizations and individuals create the value they’re looking for, by delivering quality assurance, tax, advisory services, and investments.
This large exposure has made us stronger. And given us a thorough understanding of the need of our clients and how to provide them a better solution with the optimum level of support in achieving their goals that evolves with the time.
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LEADERSHIP TEAM
RAJITHA RODRIGO: Managing Director, W.R. Rodrigo & Company
ACA, ACMA(UK), CGMA, CPA(AUS)
Passionate entrepreneur. Keen about stakeholders and building Sri Lankan industries. The fanatical driver of the Sri Lankan economy and innovation. Relationship builder. Charity enthusiast. Responsible citizen.
Rajitha is the Managing Director and CEO of W.R Rodrigo & Co., one of the strongest and oldest professional services organizations in Sri Lanka that is founded by his enthusiastic father Mr. Ranjith Rodrigo more than three decades ago. Having entrepreneurial spirit within him self, Rajitha always believed that industries evolve and new knowledge and new practices breed in. Therefore, prior being joined to his father’s organization, he served as a manager in EY Sri Lanka and EY Singapore, which has given him the tremendous industry exposure, practices, knowledge and expertise to elevate Sri Lankan small and medium enterprises. Working across different geographies, verticals and communities of EY, he had gained nearly a decade of experience in assurance and advisory services. He refined and crafted his skills in serving clients across various sectors in manufacturing, insurance, logistics, power and energy, health care and pharmaceuticals.
Rajitha being a knowledge pursuer, currently perform as the Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK and member of Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia.
He believes in this transformative age of industrial evolution, Sri Lankan industries, organizations-small, medium & large need to manage the advancement of their organizational culture and response to PESTEL (Political, Economical, Social, technological, Environmental & Legal) in more effective and efficient ways by letting technology and innovation be the spark for change. Keeping that motif in mind, he joined W.R. Rodrigo & Co., as the most strong-willed Managing director / CEO to push Sri Lankan SME’s and economy to another level.
With over a decade of professional experience, Rajitha has provided audit and business advisory services to both state-owned and private enterprises, exclusively in Sri Lanka. He has been involved in number of projects such as financing, corporate restructuring, merger and acquisition transactions, audit, and taxation. Today, he is well equipped to drive his father’s initiative to the next level through expanding the service offerings of W.R Rodrigo & Co., beyond tax consultancy, to meet various challenging and progressing client needs.
Charity enthusiasts never stop. Currently, Rajitha serves as a cabinet officer of District 306B1 of Lions Club International-the largest charity organization, to help communes in need. He believes various activities in life motivate him to explore more avenues to help, enrich Sri Lankan communities. Furthermore, Rajitha joined Business Network International (BNI), Sri Lanka, and became the regional director of the Gampaha district virtuously to find new avenues to share the expertise of W.R Rodrigo & Co., to witness the change he believed every day.
RANJITH RODRIGO
Ranjith Rodrigo founded W.R. Rodrigo & Co., on 19th September 1985 predominantly as a firm of tax consultants. Equipped with client serving experience of three decades, Ranjith is now a trusted senior tax consultant with specialties in sectors such as construction, local trading, real estate, agriculture, hospitality and fisheries. Ranjith Rodrigo is the owner of the Negombo Youth Football club and the president of Negombo Football league. Ranjith is a key figure in the foot balling landscape in Sri Lanka, and held the post of President of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka for the fiscal years 2013/14 and 2014/15. He was also a member of the Association Committee of FIFA and the Developing Committee of Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
He is now the chairman of finance and media committees and the deputy chairman of the International Relations Committee of the federation, and a member of audit and compliance committee of AFC and the vice president of the South Asian Football Federation.