SUTHARSHINI RENGANATHAN
South Granville,Australia
Summary
Detail-oriented finance professional with over 10 years of experience in financial reporting, reconciliations, payroll, and audit support. Skilled in ERP systems such as SAP Hana, Xero, MYOB, and Sage 50. Demonstrates strong analytical capabilities focused on accuracy, compliance, and process enhancement. Full working rights in Australia (Partner Visa Subclass 820).
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Trainee Accountant
KION Group
Sydney
09.2025 - Current
- Attend to telephone calls and direct to the relevant department.
- Assist Accounts payable and accounts receivable team as required with AP tasks including invoice entering, filing etc.
- Provide reporting and ongoing administration assistance as and when required.
- Recorded cash receipts to specific debtor accounts for accurate tracking.
- Supported general ledger reconciliation by verifying account balances and transactions.
- Maintain adequate filing of all paperwork as per company policy requirements and guidelines
- Coordinate with various internal team members to coordinate the set up of new accounts, payments and any AR disputes or invoice queries.
- Provide administrative support with financial reporting, data analysis and trend reporting for local management.
- Provide assistance across end of month reporting activities for the commercial team.
- Executed various administrative tasks as requested to support team operations.
Trainee Accountant
Active Forklift Australia Pty Ltd
Sydney
04.2024 - 08.2025
- Maintain account reconciliations/Bank reconciliation and reporting
- Supported accounts payable including entering the purchase transactions in the MCS systems and MYOB accounting system
- Supported accounts receivable including allocating the Bank receipts with the customer accounts and sending month end customer statements and attending to the payment collection process.
- Prepared Salary on weekly basis
- Assist Quarterly BAS and Superannuation payments
Finance Officer
Internews
Asia
11.2022 - 02.2024
- Enter transactions into the ERP system, Create/update vendor profiles and conduct related vetting.
- Assist finance manager in preparing monthly projections.
- Petty cash maintenance
- Finance documentation
- Update actual cost vs budget and report variance to the program team fortnightly.
- Logistics and procurement support
- Liaise with external stakeholders, Ex - Bank, Tax department, External and Internal auditors & suppliers.
- Coordinated budget planning processes for various departments and programs.
- Managed financial transactions for diverse projects within global media initiatives.
- Donor accounts management
Finance Officer
Helvetas Swiss Intercorporation
Sri Lanka
03.2020 - 11.2020
- Provided accurate financial reports (monthly, quarterly, yearly) to finance manager and project manager, supporting informed decision-making.
- Prepared and submitted monthly fund requirements aligned with budgeted activities to ensure resource availability.
- Manage the cash float and retain proper accounting records that are used to record the transactions in the ERP system.
- Prepare finance reports and Donor's report on a timely manner.
- Monitor the expenses against the budget and share the variance report.
- Assisted project manager and project officer in preparing advance requests and expense statements, facilitating timely financial operations.
- Organized and updated project-related files to ensure easy access and retrieval.
Accounts Executive
Senok Group
Sri Lanka
01.2018 - 12.2019
- Review and verify the supporting documents for payments, purchase orders, goods received notes and processing payments.
- Review the expenses against budgets and maintain the expenses monthly/yearly budget.
- Coordinate with operational team and get timely settlement of petty cash.
- Reviewed and controlled fuel consumption reconciliation to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
- Prepare invoice and receipt in Local and Foreign currency.
- Perform Bank, Intercompany debtors and creditors reconciliation.
- Monitored debt collections and coordinated with operational team for timely reconciliations.
- Calculating VAT, NBT, Stamp duty Taxes and lodge Tax returns on a timely manner.
- Handling SVAT documentation, collection of credit vouchers and submission of tax returns on quarterly basis.
- Monitored and controlled procurement costs for charter flights to optimize spending.
- Preparing financial statements on a monthly basis.
Audit Associate
Rajan & Renganathan (Chartered Accountant)
Sri Lanka
07.2014 - 11.2017
- Assisted in preparing audit reports for client presentations.
- Evaluated internal controls and identified areas for improvement.
- Collaborated with clients to gather necessary financial documentation.
- Trained junior staff on audit procedures and best practices.
- Analyzed data to detect discrepancies in financial records.
- Prepared detailed workpapers documenting all audit evidence obtained during the course of an engagement.
- Performed tests of internal controls to assess the adequacy of existing systems and processes.
- Conducted financial audits of clients' records, including accounts payable and receivable, payroll, and general ledger transactions.
Audit Intern
A.G.Sarma (Chartered Accountants)
Sri Lanka
11.2005 - 06.2006
- Assisted in preparing financial statements and audit reports for clients.
- Utilized accounting software to analyze financial data and support audits.
- Maintained organized records of audit work papers and supporting documents.
- Supported senior auditors in executing risk assessments and planning procedures.
Education
MBA - finance
University of Bedfordshire
United Kingdom02-2024
Associate member of CPA -
CPA Australia
Australia02-2031
ICASL Finalist -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of SriLanka
SriLanka01-2027
Associate member of IPA -
IPA
Australia04-2026
Associate Member of AAT -
AAT SriLanka
SriLanka04-2026
Skills
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- Basic bookkeeping
- Invoice processing
- Financial data entry
- Account Reconciliation
- Bank reconciliations
- Invoicing
- Month-end closing
- Expense management
- Budget forecasting
- Variance analysis
- Audit Preparation
- Financial Reporting
- Internal controls
- Accounting principles
- Payroll processing
- Expense reports
- Debt management
- Budget Management
- XERO
- MYOB
- SAGE 50
- Report preparation
- Financial Reporting
- SAP HANA
References
Available upon request
Personal Information
Profession: Accountant
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tamil
Native/ Bilingual
Sinhala
Professional
Certification
- CPA Australia - Associate Member
- Institute of Public Accountants - Member
- The Institute of Financial Accountants - Member
- International English Language Testing System
- Business English Certificate Higher
- Comprehensive Guide to Xero Accounting - Alison
- Excel: PivotTables for Beginners - LinkedIn
- Excel: VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP for Beginners - LinkedIn
Timeline
Trainee Accountant
KION Group
09.2025 - Current
Trainee Accountant
Active Forklift Australia Pty Ltd
04.2024 - 08.2025
Finance Officer
Internews
11.2022 - 02.2024
Finance Officer
Helvetas Swiss Intercorporation
03.2020 - 11.2020
Accounts Executive
Senok Group
01.2018 - 12.2019
Audit Associate
Rajan & Renganathan (Chartered Accountant)
07.2014 - 11.2017
Audit Intern
A.G.Sarma (Chartered Accountants)
11.2005 - 06.2006
MBA - finance
University of Bedfordshire
Associate member of CPA -
CPA Australia
ICASL Finalist -
Institute of Chartered Accountants of SriLanka
Associate member of IPA -
IPA
Associate Member of AAT -
AAT SriLanka