Global Finance Professional

Madhumita Natarajan

US CPA | Driving Performance Across People, Processes & Numbers

Big Four and international commercial finance professional, helping organisations make smarter decisions through financial insight, strategic partnership and operational excellence.

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.

Awards & Recognition

  • Nominee, New Accountant — Accountants Daily Rising Stars Awards 2026
  • Nominee, Rising Star of the Year — Australian Accounting Awards 2026
  • Nominee, Accounting Support Staff of the Year — Australian Accounting Awards 2026
  • "High Flyer", Deloitte USI Hyderabad — awarded every consecutive year for utilisation and quality of work in Audit
  • Spot and Applause Awards, Deloitte USI Hyderabad — for exemplary performance in the Audit practice

Education

Silver Oak University, Ahmedabad, India

Master of Commerce in Accounting and Taxation

June 2023 – July 2025

Ethiraj College for Women

Bachelor of Commerce

2016 – May 2019

Skills

Core Competencies

Month-End Close & Financial ReportingUS GAAP / PCAOB AuditGST / Indirect Tax ComplianceTreasury & Cash ManagementBalance Sheet & GL ReconciliationsInternal Controls & SOXBudget vs. Actual Variance AnalysisFixed Assets & AccrualsStakeholder & Investor Relations

Tools

NetSuiteOracle ERPTableauPower BIAdvanced Excel

Certification

US CPA

Languages

Tamil · NativeEnglish · AdvancedHindi · IntermediateFrench · Beginner

Contact

Open to conversations on finance leadership, strategy, and partnership opportunities.