Financial Reporting Specialist

Job Description

Financial Reporting:

1. General Accounting

• Manage all accounting records for general accounting, including inventories, prepayments, fixed assets, leasing, payroll, accruals, taxation, equities, and others. Review accounting entries prepared and posted by finance team.

• Manage all accounting treatments under VAS ledger, local statutory and regulation requirements.

• Manage IFRS ledger, prepare and/or review all adjustment entries for differences between local GAAP and IFRS.

• Set-up, manage execution of monthly financial closing process and balance sheet reconciliation, and on-going improve, enhance these processes to ensure the quality of financial reporting and reduce the closing time.

• Build and on-going update accounting policies, accounting manuals, SOPs and guidance relating to general accounting areas.

• Manage accounting systems, accounting document storage, and other accounting areas.

2. Financial Reporting

• Review and/or prepare VAS financial statements and other local regulatory reports.

• Review and/or prepare IFRS financial statements in accordance with Group requirements.

• Review and/or prepare other reports required by local regulations.

3. Governance and Control

• Manage accounting policies and procedures to ensure appropriate and sufficient internal control in place, and compliance with local regulation and Group policies.

• Build and maintain good relationships with external auditors and regulators.

• Manage the annual external audit.

Taxation:

1. Tax Reporting and Compliance: Responsible for tax management, tax accounting, tax filing, and tax payment to ensure compliance with local statutory and regulatory requirements and Group tax policies.

• Design, implement and monitor effective control procedures for all tax reporting and compliance aspects.

• Review tax returns and ensure accurate and timely filing of all tax forms.

• Review tax balances, and payment plans for taxation.

2. Tax Consulting: Act as a ‘Tax Partner’ to divisional managers by providing technical expertise on product, project, other tax related issues and tax risk management.

• Frequently update new applicable tax regulations and communicate any changes to the management team, and lead implementation of these changes.

• Mange tax related services with consultants.

Job Requirement

•       Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.

•       Participating in training program for accounting certifications (CPA, ACCA or CIMA) highly preferred.

•       3-4 years of progressive accounting or audit experience.

•       Extremely organized and attentive to details, strong with numbers.

•       Thorough understanding of accounting and financial reporting principles and practices, and Vietnam taxation.

•       Excellent verbal and written skills.

•       Fluent in English.

•       Advanced skills with Microsoft Office products.

•       Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software systems is a strong plus.