Asia Asset Finance PLC (AAF) shone at the National Project Management Excellence (NPME) Awards 2025, taking home four major honours in one night — proof that when discipline meets purpose, great brands don’t just participate; they set the pace.
Asia Asset Finance won:
- Gold – Best Innovative Project of the Year
- Gold – Best Managed Project in Community Development / CSR
- Silver – Best Lean Project of the Year
- 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.
The 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, and stronger risk discipline.
The second Gold, for Best Managed Project in Community Development / CSR, celebrated the landmark Asia Asset Clean Sri Lanka Hetata Atak initiative. In a first for Sri Lanka, AAF independently executed a nationwide, self-funded sustainability programme across eight provinces, tailored to the needs of each region. The initiative delivered real outcomes across environmental, economic, and social pillars — from a Beehive Fence Programme to reduce human-elephant conflict, to drug-prevention campaigns, sustainable farming initiatives, beach clean-ups, and reforestation drives. No external sponsorships. No contracts. Just a bold private-sector model that sets a new benchmark for scale, accountability, and national relevance.
Operational excellence earned 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 reduced the process from 47 steps to just 15, enabled remote onboarding, added real-time tracking, strengthened compliance, and delivered LKR 4.1 million in savings — elevating candidate and stakeholder experience while building a scalable engine for talent.
“These four wins are not trophies on a shelf; they’re a public scorecard on how we execute,” said Rajiv Gunawardena, Chief Executive Officer of Asia Asset Finance PLC. “From AI and digital platforms to Lean breakthroughs and a self-funded national CSR movement, our teams proved that disciplined project management can uplift customers, colleagues, and communities — together and at scale.”
Behind this momentum is a brand built for the long run — a 55-year legacy in Sri Lanka, a Fitch A+(lka) credit rating, the governance depth of being the only Sri Lankan subsidiary of the Muthoot Finance Group, and a 100+ branch footprint that turns strategy into nationwide action, amplified by digital platforms such as LuckEwallet.
Asia Asset Finance is writing a simple, powerful promise into every project: trust you can verify, impact you can feel, and execution you can measure.
