Madhumita Natarajan

Experience

7 years across Australian commercial finance and Big Four audit.

1. Assistant Accountant

   Scape Australia Management Pty Ltd (The Living Company)

   January 2025 – June 2026 · 1 yr 6 mo · Sydney, Australia

   • Led end-to-end month-end close in NetSuite across Core Fund, JV1 and JV2 entities, including accruals and balance sheet reconciliations covering prepayment amortisation, fixed assets, interstaple lease turnover and inventory.
   • Managed the monthly GST compliance cycle across the Core Fund and six joint venture entities, coordinating with PwC on workpaper review and the ATO on lodgement, ensuring 100% on-time statutory filing.
   • Owned inter-entity cash management and treasury funding via CBA and Perpetual Trustees, covering accounts payable, GST obligations, interstaple interest, development asset funding, and quarterly distributions to 22+ institutional investors.
   • Owned several P&L areas including operational and technology expenses; administered the corporate credit card programme and reporting to senior management.
   • Applied Tableau dashboards and advanced Excel analytics to budget-versus-actual variance analysis, feeding directly into month-end financial commentary for senior Finance leadership.
   • Led a bank account rationalisation and cash-sweep automation project end to end, materially reducing manual treasury processing and improving real-time cash visibility.
   • Recruited and trained a Summer 2025 intern, contributing to Finance team capability building.
2. Audit Senior

   Deloitte & Touche LLP

   January 2024 – August 2024 · 8 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

   • Engagement Senior with primary responsibility for Management Override of Controls testing and carve-out adjustment entry testing for the General Electric spin-off.
   • Lead senior on the annual financial reports tie-out, supporting General Electric's earliest-ever 10-K filing.
   • Delivered 250+ Statutory Audit clearances across Shared Service Center and statutory engagements spanning multiple geographies while managing concurrent assignments to deadline.
   • Trained and developed junior staff on auditing techniques and procedures.
3. Audit & Assurance In Charge

   Deloitte & Touche LLP

   July 2022 – December 2023 · 1 yr 6 mo · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

   • Planned audit engagements and resourcing; led Journal Entry Testing and Entity-Level Controls design for PCAOB audits, including implementation of centralised statutory audit processes.
   • Evaluated the adequacy of internal controls over financial reporting and led the Omnia platform transition for controls testing on large engagements.
   • Directly managed USI staff and seniors on engagement, conducting formal performance reviews and mentoring, and providing feedback to US-based engagement managers on cross-border team performance.
   • Reviewed statutory audit testing scope across 500 entities; selected for a 9-month deployment to Deloitte's Stamford, Connecticut office on an L-1 visa.
4. Audit & Assurance Senior Assistant

   Deloitte & Touche LLP

   July 2021 – June 2022 · 1 yr · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

   • Reviewed and tied out quarterly and annual financial report audits for accuracy; analysed trends in financial data to investigate fluctuations.
   • Calculated Preliminary Materiality for 200+ legal entities within the General Electric engagement.
   • Prepared and reviewed planning workpapers and the coordinating trial balance leveraged by stakeholders across 85 Deloitte member firms.
5. Audit & Assurance Assistant

   Deloitte & Touche LLP

   August 2019 – June 2021 · 1 yr 11 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

   • Performed substantive testing over cash, accounts receivable, property, plant & equipment and accounts payable, including setting up lead sheets for all financial statement line items, primarily within the consumer industry.

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