Accounting Manager

The Accounting manager is responsible for leading the school's accounting operations and ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting in accordance with Vietnamese Accounting Standards and relevant tax regulations. The role oversees the accounting team, strengthens internal controls, supports financial planning and audit processes, and partners closely with the Finance Director to improve systems, processes, and reporting quality.
Essential duties and responsibilities
1. Accounting Operations:
• Oversee daily accounting operations, including general ledger, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, payroll accounting, bank reconciliation, and account reconciliations.
• Ensure all accounting transactions are recorded accurately, completely, and on time.
• Review month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Become a key contact between the school and PMH accounting team.
2. Financial Reporting
• Prepare and/or review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports in compliance with
VAS, PMH as parent company and internal reporting requirements.
• Ensure the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of financial statements and supporting
schedules.
• Support the Finance Director in the annual budgeting and forecasting process by
providing accounting data, historical analysis, and relevant financial input.
• Perform actual versus budget analysis, identify key variances, and provide meaningful
commentary and insights to support management decision-making.
• Support management reporting and analysis as required by the Finance Director.
3. Compliance, Tax, and Audit:
• Ensure compliance with Vietnamese tax regulations, including VAT, CIT, PIT, and other
applicable statutory requirements.
• Coordinate with external auditors, tax advisors, and relevant authorities during audits and
inspections.
• Maintain proper statutory books, records, and supporting documentation in accordance
with legal and organizational requirements.
• Oversee fixed assets accounting and management, including asset capitalization,
depreciation, disposals, asset register maintenance, and periodic reconciliation.
• Monitor the completeness and accuracy of fixed asset records and support periodic
physical verification where required.
4. Internal Controls and Process Improvement:
• Strengthen and monitor internal controls to safeguard assets and improve financial data
integrity.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and support the optimization of accounting
workflows and ERP usage.
• Participate in finance transformation and system enhancement initiatives, including
Odoo-related improvements.
5. Team Management and Cross-functional Collaboration
• Lead, coach, and develop accounting team members (4-5 members) to ensure effective
and professional performance.
• Allocate work, monitor deliverables, and support capability development within the team.
• Work closely with other departments to ensure smooth and compliant financial
operations.