He was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry however left the University of Ceylon when he was accepted to the Ceylon Civil Service in 1945. After serving as a civil service cadet, he was appointed in 1946 as an Assistant Government Agent, Kalmunai and served in many other capacities including that of Government Agent. In early 1970 he transferred to the Treasury and became the Deputy Secretary and later Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary to the Ministry of Finance in 1971. It was the most senior civil service post at the time. During his tenor, he introduced a program budgeting in the preparation of the estimates, whereby the programme of expenditure was published by every government department. He held to post until 1975 and retired from the Sri Lankan Administrative Service.
