The Country Head of Finance reports to the Group CFO and oversees a shared service finance team across the Group’s portfolio businesses in Vietnam. This role partners with Business Unit (“BU”) leaders by leading the Group’s financial activities and improving financial controls and processes. This role is responsible for overseeing financial reporting, taxation, financial operations, treasury, financial planning & analysis, and procurement.

Responsibilities

Financial Reporting

• Manage accounting policies, accounting manuals, SOPs and guidance to ensure appropriate and sufficient internal control in place, and compliance with local regulation and Group policies
• Implement and maintain strong financial controls throughout all Business Units
• Guide and monitor all transaction cycles and controls, month-end and year-end closing processes across all Business Units
• Manage the audit process by working with auditors and advisors to oversee the preparation of accurate annual statutory accounts and tax returns
• Implement and manage ongoing improvements and implementations with the ERP specialist

Tax and Compliance

• 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
• Tax Consulting: Act as a ‘Tax Partner’ to Business Units by providing technical expertise on product, project, other tax related issues and tax risk management

Financial Operations

• Oversee Financial Operations to ensure closing is on-time and accurate each reporting period
• Control accounts payable policies and procedures, including contract management, payables and payment to third-party vendors, employee cash advances and reimbursements, tax authorities, etc.
• Control accounts receivable policies and procedures, including sales contract creation and modification, collection, promotion, etc.

Treasury

• Arrange liquidity for strategic events such as a merger, acquisition, establishment of a fund or a divestiture
• Work with BU leaders and Group management to optimize the capital structure of each BU and the Group as well as provide more competitive financing solutions
• Review cash flow forecasts and ensure the Finance team works cross functionally to effectively manage working capital and liquidity
• Build and on-going improve treasury policies and procedures, including bank account administration, bank approval matrix, payment run, cash flow forecast, etc.
• Manage all loan agreements and ensure loan administration in accordance with regulations and Group policies.

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Ensure the recording of entries are accurate so that the Managerial Reporting Packages (“MRPs)” are provided on-time and accurately
• Work with the Financial Business Partners (“FBPs”) to identify and resolve workflow gaps between BUs and Finance. Improve the operating efficiency of Finance by streamlining these workflows on an ongoing basis
• Prepare and monitor the country-level Finance budget

Procurement

• Control procurement policies and procedures, including purchase process, vendor management, etc.
• Oversee procurement team and purchase activities for all BUs

Leadership

• Continuous monitoring industry developments, develop contacts in the industry and identify opportunities and threats to the business
• Manage and develop Finance Team by managing performance, setting goals, providing ongoing training and maintaining strong employee relations
• Lead by example for the rest of the organization and carefully cultivate a fast-paced and inclusive culture
• Proactively partner with management team and other functions in daily finance operations and facilitate operational efficiency improvements.
• Effectively communicate and negotiate with external stakeholders, including regulators, tax authorities, banks, financial institutions, collection partners, etc.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance;
• Accounting certifications (CPA, ACCA or CIMA) highly preferred;
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience with a portion of it in a supervisory role;
• 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;
• Strong leadership skills and capable of motivating teams to achieve results;
• Fluent in English;
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office products;
• Familiarity with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software systems.

• Bằng cấp: Đại học
• Độ tuổi: Không giới hạn tuổi
• Hình thức: Nhân viên chính thức
• Lương: Cạnh tranh