HBSI awarded Gold Approved Employer Status by ACCA

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The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) recognises and rewards leading organisations that offer continual learning and professional development support to ACCA trainees. Having partnerships with many employers across the world, ACCA recently awarded Hayleys Business Solutions International Ltd (HBSI) with Gold approved Employer Status.

ACCA’s Approved Employer program has been designed to help employers derive maximum value from ACCA students, affiliates and members. It enables employers to benchmark their training and development practices against ACCA’s best practice training standards and to receive global recognition for the training and development opportunities they provide. HBSI is Hayleys Shared Services Centre that caters for F&A needs of the Hayleys diversified sectors. Additionally, it offers BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) services to onshore and offshore third party clients. They now join an elite group of employers around the world who will gain access to specialised services offered by ACCA for approved employers. Amongst these would be services designed to support the recruitment, development and retention of finance professionals that includes access to ACCA’s global conference series and research programs on managing human capital as well as other employer training products and services. HBSI Managing Director Ajith Dandeniya stated, “We are honoured to have been chosen as an ACCA Approved Employer. I believe this is a good development, consistent and progressive, bringing confidence together with increased responsibility to maintain the highest quality of development of our staff.” Commenting on the support ACCA will extend to HBSI, ACCA Sri Lanka Head Nilusha Ranasinghe said, “Our team is looking forward to working with HBSI in a number of areas including presentations and workshops for trainees; continuing professional development, networking and other events and support and help learning and development. This will serve the company well in the future as it continues to develop the capabilities of its finance staff.”