Friday Nov 07, 2025
Friday Nov 07, 2025
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Asia Asset Finance PLC (AAF) lit up the National Project Management Excellence (NPME) Awards 2025, taking home four major honours in one night.
AAF won: Gold – Best Innovative Project of the Year, Gold – Best Managed Project in Community Development/CSR, Silver – Best Lean Project of the Year, and Bronze – Best Managed Project in Digital Transformation. For customers, partners, and communities across Sri Lanka, the message is clear: this is a company that delivers; on time, to standard, and with measurable impact.
Innovation gold went to AMIE (Advanced Management Intelligence Engine), Sri Lanka’s first AI-powered policy and company directory in the NBFI sector, built by Asia Asset Finance. AMIE replaced a manual, error-prone search process with a 25-second, always-current answer; turning policy access into a competitive advantage. It’s innovation with governance baked in: faster decisions, cleaner compliance, stronger risk discipline.
The second gold; Best Managed Project in Community Development/CSR, celebrated the landmark “Asia Asset Clean Sri Lanka Hetata Atak.”
In a first for Sri Lanka, AAF independently executed a nationwide, self-funded sustainability initiative across all nine provinces, tailored to the needs of each region. The program delivered real outcomes across environmental, economic, and social pillars: a Beehive Fence Program to reduce human elephant conflict, drug-prevention campaigns, sustainable farming initiatives, beach clean-ups, and reforestation drives, among others. No external sponsorships, no contracts. Just a bold private-sector model that sets a new benchmark for scale, accountability, and national relevance.
Operational excellence took silver with the Fuel Reimbursement Process Digitalisation Project; a classic Lean transformation that slashed processing time from 17 hours (and a 28-day wait) to under two minutes. By digitising workflows on internal systems and enabling real-time fund transfers, the team eliminated manual errors, reduced staff fatigue, and achieved a 98% employee-satisfaction rate. Lean isn’t a slogan at AAF; it’s a lived discipline that frees people to do their best work.
The Bronze in Digital Transformation recognised Sri Lanka’s first fully paperless recruitment and onboarding platform in the NBFI sector.
The project cut the process from 47 steps to just 15, enabled remote onboarding, added real-time tracking, strengthened compliance, and delivered Rs. 4.1 million in savings; elevating candidate and stakeholder experience while building a scalable engine for talent.
Asia Asset Finance PLC CEO Rajiv Gunawardena said: “These four wins are not trophies on a shelf- they’re a public scorecard on how we execute. From AI and digital platforms to Lean breakthroughs and a self-funded national CSR movement, our teams proved that disciplined project management can lift customers, colleagues, and communities. Together and at scale.”
