Ms. Sooriyaarachchi presently works as the Head of Compliance of Seylan Bank PLC a leading commercial bank in Sri Lanka. She also serves the compliance community in her country as the President to the Association of the Compliance Officers of Banks of Sri Lanka.

Ms. Sooriyaarachchi is an Attorney -At –Law and also Fellow members of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka [FIB] and the International Compliance Association of the United Kingdom [FICA]. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management granted by the University of Colombo and a Post Attorney Diploma in Banking and Insurance Law granted by the Center for Advanced Legal Studies of the Sri Lanka Law College. She possesses twenty years of working experience in the financial sector formally as a legal professional and now as compliance professional.