The Value of CPA: Global Adventures

Join CPABC for an engaging webinar exploring the global mobility and versatility of the CPA designation. Hear from guest speakers Chamika Basnayake, CPA, CMA Financial Controller at Emterra Group, and Roderic Fletcher, CPA, Senior Manager at KPMG Canada.

Chamika, formerly a CIMA member before becoming a CPA in Canada, will share insights from his extensive career leading financial strategy and operational excellence across multinational and Canadian organizations. He will highlight how the CPA designation empowers finance leaders to strengthen governance, drive performance, and support long-term growth.

Roderic, a Canadian CPA with professional experience in both Canada and New Zealand, will showcase how the international recognition of CPA opens doors to diverse opportunities worldwide. Drawing on his work in audit quality, multinational engagements, and global inclusion initiatives, he will demonstrate how CPAs can take their skills across borders and thrive in global markets.

Together, Chamika and Roderic will illustrate the breadth of opportunities available to CPAs – whether through prior professional memberships or international experience — and how the CPA designation equips professionals to succeed in a globalized economy.

Speakers

Chamika Basnayake, CPA, CMA
Financial Controller
Emterra Group

Chamika Basnayake, CPA, CMA is a senior finance executive with 10+ years of experience leading financial strategy, performance management, and operational excellence across multinational and Canadian organizations. As the Financial Controller at Emterra Group, he oversees the full Western Canada finance portfolio, driving financial governance, strategic planning, and enterprise-wide performance improvements. Previously, Chamika held key finance leadership roles at Lactalis Canada, MAS Holdings, TransLink, and PwC, where he delivered strong results in FP&A, financial reporting, risk management, and large-scale process optimization. Known as a strategic partner to executive teams, he brings a proven track record of strengthening financial discipline, enabling data-driven decisions, and supporting long-term business growth.

Roderic Fletcher, CPA
Senior Manager, Department of Professional Practice’s KBS Team
KPMG Canada

Roderic is a Senior Manager at KPMG in Canada, based in Vancouver, working for the national KPMG Business School (KBS) team. This team is part of the Audit Quality subset of the Department of Professional Practice. In this role he helps drive audit quality through overseeing the deployment of Audit Foundations and other baseline courses for both auditors and specialists involved in audits. Additionally, he works on audits of PCAOB mining entities.

Before taking on his currently role, he has worked in the Energy and Natural Resources Audit team at KPMG in Canada, and the Corporate and Enterprise Audit team at KPMG New Zealand. Throughout this time, he worked on a range of entities from small private enterprise under ASPE to large multinationals reporting under PCAOB.

Roderic is also the lead of the Global Pride@KPMG group. In his work for the Global Pride@KPMG network, he helps drive the global ambition for LGBTQ+ inclusion in line with KPMGs goals, and inclusion statement, always taking into consideration the trends in each member firm’s country.

In all these roles he has the opportunity to work in several areas of the business, ultimately with the goal of making sure KPMGs teams are providing clients, and the market, with the highest quality audit engagements.