Lavennia Pelanisamy
Batu Caves
Summary
Dedicated professional with expertise in management, evaluation, and research, focused on implementing initiatives that drive organizational advancement in both local and regional markets. Proven skills in accounting, financial analysis, and IT proficiency, providing accurate bookkeeping and financial status assessments. Experienced in cost auditing and tax planning, with a strong ability to assess and mitigate financial risks. Seeking a permanent position in accountancy or management consulting to leverage knowledge and contribute to team success.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
R2R Supervisor (North Asia Market)
TMF Group
01.2025 - Current
- Provide strategic oversight of all bookkeeping activities, ensuring full adherence to group accounting policies and procedures.
- Drive the delivery of accurate, high-quality financial data to support executive decision-making.
- Oversee and govern the month-end close process across all countries in scope, ensuring timeliness, completeness, and compliance.
- Review and approve critical month-end entries, including depreciation, prepaid expenses, deferred revenue, accruals, and IFRS adjustments.
- Lead comprehensive account reviews and reconciliations, ensuring robust financial controls.
- Ensure consistent compliance with IFRS and promote best practices across the market finance function.
- Review and validate monthly financial reporting packages, ensuring alignment with group reporting timelines and standards.
- Deliver high-level variance analyses and partner with senior stakeholders to explain key financial movements.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives across reporting, analytics, and process efficiency.
- Oversee preparation for internal and external audits, ensuring transparency and strong governance.
- Support the Market Finance Director with strategic insights, executive summaries, and data-driven recommendations.
- Strengthen cross-functional collaboration with P2P, O2C, and MDM to resolve systemic issues and enhance end-to-end processes.
- Promote automation and digitalization opportunities to optimize reporting and data preparation.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and capability building to team members, fostering a high-performance culture.
- Anticipate and resolve operational challenges, ensuring continuity and resilience in financial operations.
- Act as the principal point of contact for TMF stakeholders on matters related to reporting and financial governance in the Market.
- Support the Process Owner in designing and delivering trainings, seminars, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
R2R Supervisor (Hong Kong)
TMF Group
01.2024 - 01.2025
- Reporting directly to the Team Lead & Senior Manager in the preparation of statutory financial statements for various countries including drafting notes and disclosures in accordance with IFRS and GAAP standards using OneSource technology on a timely basis to ensure that all accounting standards and legislative requirements are met.
- Analyze information, reports, ledgers and other accounting documentation to ensure completeness and accuracy, recommending appropriate actions and adjustments where required to facilitate planning and decision making.
- Work closely with external stakeholders (Lloyd's Group, HH Global, Morningstar Inc, Lindemann, and DSS) and internal stakeholders (Regional Local Offices across different countries) to provide advice and guidance as required and to assist with resolution of issues to ensure they can provide accurate, timely and compliant statutory financial statements.
- Required to implement the Four Eye Principal to perform peer review and provide evidence as well as reviewing and commenting on the Financial Statements prepared by the Accounting Associates.
- Assist with developing and implementing policies, procedures and standards for preparation of input into statutory reporting to continually improve the quality, accuracy, efficiency and timeliness of statutory financial statements.
- Improving processes including reducing duplication, increasing standardization, leveraging technology solutions, fostering, and sharing innovation and increasing functional synergies across a large and diverse business base.
Senior Accounting Analyst (Statutory Reporting)
TMF Group
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Audit and Taxation Preparation of Audited Financial Statements based on IFRS / GAAP Standards & Government Regulations.
- SOX Compliance Testing & Internal Controls Reporting.
- Generate Purchase Orders & GRN, payment processing, Accounts Payable reconciliation & Suppliers / Vendor Management.
- Tenants / Purchasers data Entry, invoicing, Issuing Credit Notes & Accounts Receivables reconciliation and Customer Relation Management.
- Journal & General Ledger Entries in conjunction with Month End Closing for monthly reporting.
- Consolidation of Group Financial Statements & Management Reporting.
- Balance sheet, Fixed Asset & Bank Reconciliation.
- Inventory Control and Budget Planning.
- Product Costing & Profitability Analysis.
- Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss, Credit and Cash Flow Analysis.
- Treasury and Cash Management.
Senior Tax & Account Executive
BR Property Holding S/B
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Preparing and presenting group management and financial reports.
- Reporting directly to the Group's General Manager in analyzing, preparing & presenting monthly management & financial reports as well as cash flow report.
- Consolidating Group financial statements & handling full set of accounts for Bangsar Shopping Centre (BSC), BRDB Office Tower & other active property investment companies as well as performing month end closing in a timely manner.
- Prepare bank reconciliation and monitor daily bank balances.
- Reviewing and clearing suspense and clearance accounts.
- Ensure proper maintenance of documentation and filing to support all accounting entries.
- Assist in audit and tax preparation.
- Reconcile daily transaction movement and highlight disparity between cash & bank balance & cash entries in addition to reconciling supplier accounts to payments executed.
- Reconciliation activities - weekly cash forecast against actual bank balance, performance balancing of loan transaction against bank accounts.
- Monitor, supervise, coordinate & ensure junior executive attends to Accounts Payable issues on timely manner as well as completeness of the urgent request.
- Work closely with Treasury & signatories to review payment proposal & resolve payable transaction to be executed within the given time frame.
- Prepare bi-monthly tax compliance (SST - from reconciliation, payment for tax returns, including preparation of tax returns forms).
- To monitor & update on inflows & outflows of the company's daily fund position as well as to prepare the company's cash flow position on monthly basis.
- Work closely with Treasury to monitor changes on loan interest rates & accrue loan interest expenses & facilities fees on monthly basis.
Senior Tax & Account Executive
BRDB Developments S/B
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Acquired broad professional expertise in the past 4 years of my audit career demonstrating strong analytical, interpersonal & problem solving skills as well as good client management.
- Therefore I was given a pivotal role in the firm to be in charged of managing & leading different engagement teams in auditing financial accounts which includes consolidating & finalizing audit reports of major hotels and food & beverage clients' based in Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor & Malacca; solar & energy company based in East Malaysia; a Malaysian daily newspaper company & its holding media group and a leading manufacturer of motorcyclist helmet in Malaysia.
- Key responsibility includes assisting Manager to review finalize audit reports for small medium sized property development & investment companies before handed over for partner review.
- To liaise with audit manager, managing partner and client as and when necessary to report on audit work status, progress, critical issues and communicate important clients' matters.
- To document and compile audit work papers and obtain sufficient audit evidence to support engagement partner's sign-off of the client's financial statements.
- Assign audit tasks & train new audit associates in assessing audit plans & executing audit strategies.
- To manage and coach junior audit staff members on engagement teams in ensuring routine site audits to be completed within the given timeframe.
- Led audit team in annual stock take.
- Handle audit assurance assignments independently.
- Prepare Bank reconciliation, General Ledger and journal vouchers and accounting entries.
- Reviewing and clearing suspense and clearance accounts.
Audit Senior
Melissa Yee & Co
01.2016 - 01.2019
- Report directly to the Group's CFO on Group tax related matters which includes to assess and research on difficult tax issues & identify solutions.
- Always up-to-date on the local and international tax regulations as well as able to assess the impact to business & keeping track of industry trends and changes related to taxes in order to provide advice to colleagues on outcomes of complex tax audits & give inputs to process documentations required for tax audits.
- Actively engaged in discussion with CFO on revising the Group's insurance policies & reviewing market value indicators (incl. liaising with independent valuer) by comparing the property's selling value to other buildings in the area & also negotiate on quotations for annual property & land valuation report required by bank officers & auditors.
- Prepare data for Tax Audit and any other litigations (if any) and responsible for the follow up and closure of cases.
- Maintaining the relationship with Tax Officer (IRB & Customs) to ensure compliance with regulations by forwarding required information.
- Supporting and providing advisory & updates oversight by Assistant General Manager on various Tax, GST & SST related topics to other departments.
- Handle tax queries in collaboration with tax consultants.
- Responsible in analyzing & consolidating financial statements for the Group's intermediate Holding Company as well as performing monthly closing, analyzing & preparing financial statements for a residential project based in North Kiara & investment companies.
- Analyse & present monthly management, financial & cash flow reports to Assistant General Manager.
- Prepare bank reconciliation and monitor daily bank balances.
- Assist in audit and tax preparation.
Audit Associate - Audit Senior
Cherng & Co
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Possessing a strong knowledge and hands on experience in operating the new Audit Express software in preparing Group financial statements as well as being a good team player has given me an advancement in my audit career as a Senior Executive.
- Conducted audit assignments for professional healthcare distributors supplying medical products to the Malaysian healthcare industry as well as examining & evaluating financial accounts for a well-established livestock trader & one of the anchor companies for PS1M nationwide as well as group of companies that manages a number of recreational sport clubs throughout Malaysia.
- Worked closely with Audit Manager & Partner to create positive client experience during the performance of variety of assurance by attending meetings to present audit reports, highlighting issues & advising on adequate provision for tax liabilities.
- Prepared Group audited Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement and Consolidated Balance Sheet to be presented in the Group's Annual Reports and Financial Statements.
- Assigned to manage & guide juniors as well as to review their audit assignments before being submitted to the Manager.
Education
ACCA -
04-2026
BA (Hons) - Accounting & Finance
Segi College Accredited by University of Greenwich (UK)
01-2012
Skills
- SAP
- Oracle
- Sage
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
- ServiceNow Financial Management
- AutoCount
- SQL
- QuickBooks
- IFCA
- Sage UBS
- MYOB
- Audit Express
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Words, Publisher, Outlook, and Power Point)
Languages
English
Tamil
Malay
Custom Section
I am keen in contributing to the management on key areas that requires high level evaluation, analysis, research and using such skills in the implementing initiatives for the advancement of the Organization. This can be both in the local Malaysian market or regional level. Besides that, I am also pursuing my ACCA Professional Papers as a part time student., I will be available with 3 month notice from my current employment.
References
- Steven Yoong Chee Hon, 03-7726 2328, Unit No. 1018, 10th Floor, Block A, Lobby 4, No. 1 Jalan SS20/27, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, 47400
- Lee Poh Cheun, 03-2688 2977, Level 11, Menara BRDB, 285 Jalan Maarof, Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Bandaraya, 59000
Timeline
R2R Supervisor (North Asia Market)
TMF Group
01.2025 - Current
R2R Supervisor (Hong Kong)
TMF Group
01.2024 - 01.2025
Senior Accounting Analyst (Statutory Reporting)
TMF Group
01.2021 - 01.2024
Senior Tax & Account Executive
BR Property Holding S/B
01.2020 - 01.2021
Senior Tax & Account Executive
BRDB Developments S/B
01.2019 - 01.2020
Audit Senior
Melissa Yee & Co
01.2016 - 01.2019
Audit Associate - Audit Senior
Cherng & Co
01.2012 - 01.2016
ACCA -
BA (Hons) - Accounting & Finance
Segi College Accredited by University of Greenwich (UK)