Chief Accountant

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Control and maintain the accounting system operations including revenues, expenses, assets, cash, accounting records, and monthly financial reports. Ensure reconciliation of accounting data, balancing of detailed and summary data; review financial statements and tax reports to ensure accuracy.
• Monitor and review reports on VAT, CIT, FCT, PIT, and other taxes as per regulations, ensuring timely submission of required tax and financial reports.
• Organize regular inventory of fixed assets, tools, equipment, and goods. Implement periodic and ad-hoc inventory activities for assets and goods.
• Work with regulatory agencies, prepare, coordinate, and fulfill audit and inspection requirements, and handle tax finalization. Liaise with auditors and inspectors/tax finalizers.
• Collaborate with HQ (based on Korea) under following accounting management process based on global standard
• Analysis and control budget and expense with management accounting process, and report it to BOD including any unusual or inappropriate financial activities
• Review economic contracts and service contracts (if any).

Activities

• Provide overall management and assume overall responsibility for all activities of the accounting team. Organize the team’s workflow and manage the documentation and record-keeping system
• Participate in many kinds of business activities and support other activities related to the company's overall operations.
• Demonstrate expertise in taxation, identifying potential tax issues during the initiation of new business ventures and contractual agreements, and effectively responding to tax challenges the company may face.
• Based on VAS standards of accounting expertise, understand the HQ’s accounting system (K-GAAP) and participate in the preparation of consolidated financial statements.
• Develop and enhance the management accounting system for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) purposes.

Who are we looking for?

• Bachelor's or higher degree in Accounting or Finance
• Must have a Chief Accountant certificate.
• At least 5 years of accounting experience and 1-2 years of experience in a Chief Accountant role.
• Experience working in an FDI enterprise
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in both Vietnamese and English.
• Proficiency in Excel and AMIS software
• Ability to handle large datasets using Power Query; VBA or Macros experience is a plus.
• Aspiring to take on new challenges and ready to jump in.

Preferences:

• Experience in companies with over 50 billion VND in revenue and handling 5,000+ transactions per month.
• Proven leadership experience.
• Previous experience working in a Korean company is highly desirable.
• Keen interest in emerging AI tools and models (e.g., GPT, Codex) with hands-on experience in workflow automation.
• Passionate about cutting-edge AI technologies, with proven experience leveraging AI tools to automate tasks and processes.