We are seeking a highly motivated Accounting Manager to lead our Accounting team (10 members). This role is central to the Finance & Accounting function, with ownership of month end/quarter/year closing, including revenue recognition, COGS, receivables, working capital, and payment terms. The Accounting Manager will ensure accuracy, compliance, and efficiency across brand-level financial operations while driving process improvements and supporting business transformation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
• Accounting Leadership & Organization Management
- Lead and develop the Accounting function, comprising General Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Inventory Accounting.
- Provide direction and oversight to the Senior General Accountant, AP Lead, and Inventory Lead, ensuring clear accountability, effective workload allocation, timely delivery, and appropriate backup coverage.
- Coach team members, set performance objectives, assess capability gaps, and build succession and development plans across the Accounting team.
• General Accounting, Closing & Statutory Books
- Own monthly, quarterly, and year-end closing, including journal entries, accruals, provisions, fixed assets, and balance-sheet reconciliations.
- Ensure the completeness and accuracy of the general ledger, statutory accounting records, and supporting schedules in accordance with VAS, IFRS, group policies, and local regulatory requirements.
• Accounts Payable & Payment Governance
- Oversee the AP activities in delivering end-to-end accounts payable activities, including invoice validation, coding, approval, posting, vendor reconciliation, payment preparation, and issue resolution.
- Ensure timely and accurate payments, robust vendor master-data governance, appropriate segregation of duties, and compliance with approval limits, contractual terms, tax rules, and internal policies.
- Monitor AP ageing, blocked or overdue invoices, supplier disputes, and payment-cycle performance, escalating material risks and driving corrective action.
• Inventory Accounting & Cost Control
- Oversee the Inventory accounting for inventory receipts, valuation, cost recognition, stock movements, goods in transit, write-offs, and inventory provisions.
- Ensure timely reconciliation between warehouse, operational, and financial systems and investigate inventory, COGS, and margin variances.
- Coordinate periodic physical stock counts and partner with Operations and Commercial teams to improve stock accuracy, cut-off discipline, and inventory controls.
• Financial Reporting, Compliance & Audit
- Review account analyses, reconciliations, management reports, and statutory schedules to ensure timely, accurate, and well-supported financial reporting.
- Act as Chief Accountant for statutory compliance and coordinate with external auditors, tax authorities, banks, and internal control teams during audits, inspections, and reviews.
• Internal Controls, Process Improvement & Transformation
- Maintain accounting policies, standard operating procedures, approval matrices, and internal controls across General Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Inventory Accounting.
- Drive ERP enhancements, automation, data-quality improvements, and cross-functional initiatives that strengthen accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and closing discipline.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Auditing, Finance, or related field.
- Professional certifications (e.g., ACCA, CPA) strongly preferred.
- Minimum 5 years of relevant accounting and tax experience, with at least 2 years in a managerial or team lead role.
- Prior Big 4 audit or professional tax firm experience is a plus.
- Solid knowledge of Vietnamese tax regulations, VAS, and IFRS.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ERP systems (NetSuite preferred).
- Strong leadership, analytical thinking, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Salary: Negotiable
- Phone, meal allowances
- Full salary insurance
- Full salary in probation
- Tet, performance bonus
- Premium Health Insurance
- Full insurance package
- 15 Annual Leave + 3 Sick Leave + 1 Outing Leave
- Work from home: 1 day/week
- Laptop provided
