Tax Assistant Manager

In order to meet the demand of our growing practices, we are looking for a qualified candidate to fill in a position of Assistant Manager supporting our Tax Services of Ho Chi Minh City office. Detailed tasks of and required qualifications for this position are as follows:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

        Clients

• Builds good rapport with the client, with a clear understanding of client expectations and achieving high levels of client service.
• Provides general support to clients in the provision of tax advice.
• Regularly attends meetings; when appropriate, answering client queries. Takes minutes and proactively encourages the partner/manager to follow up on agreed actions.

        Tax Delivery

• Provides general support to clients in the provision of tax advice.
• Prepares tax returns including PIT, CIT, FCT, VAT and computations in conjunction with agreed timescales; ensures the efficient and risk managed delivery of compliance.
• Works with relevant authorities on behalf of the clients.
• Prepares and files ruling requests on behalf of the client.
• Supports managers on tax planning and other ad hoc projects.
• Can produce a well-supported piece of technical research.
• Assists with the production of tax reports and reviewing documents.
• Acts as a point of contact on specific projects for any queries from the business.

        Client take-on / risk management

• Has an awareness of the firm's risk management procedure and adheres to this.
• Mitigates risks by involvement of senior people and ensures appropriate advice is sought.
• Takes steps to minimise professional risk, including the appropriate documentation of services provided.

        Technical competence

• Demonstrates sufficient technical knowledge to undertake relevant area of work.
• Seeks solutions to technical issues and demonstrates a willingness to understand and recognise the breadth of possible technical issues.

        People

• Is an approachable and respected member of the team who takes a proactive interest in the team's performance and well-being.
• Inputs to all assignment appraisals for junior staff, and also completes self-job appraisal and six-monthly forms on a timely basis.

       Operations and results

• Monitors own time incurred and undertakes analysis as directed.
• Manages work in progress to ensure recoverability targets can be met.
• Monitors invoices raised and cash collected in a timely manner to ensure aged debtors do not escalate.
• Meets own financial targets set.

Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in law, accounting, auditing, finance or business is strongly preferred;
• Minimum of 3 consecutive years working experience in Big4 or 5 years in another consulting firms.
• Have diversified knowledge and practical experiences regarding tax, labour, customs and licensing.
• Fluency in English, both speaking and writing;
• VTCA/CPA/ACCA/CPAA is preferable
• Good working knowledge of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
• Good administration and secretarial skill
• Good organisation and time management skill.

Desired competencies

• Initiative: Demonstrate a thirst to understand how your role fits in and seeks opportunities by yourself to contribute beyond own role without being told by others;
• Adaptability: Shows agility and flexibility to easily adjusts yourself into any changes in working situations and develop the understandings on the changes on situations; and
• Ownership: Takes responsibility for own actions and learns from experience.

Application Requirements:

• Application and resume must be in English and attached with a recent photo, and copy of the transcript
• Name your file with quoting reference (Application – Tax Assistant Manager - HCMC Office);
• The total document file size must not exceed 2MB;
• Deadline for submission is 31 March 2020
• Your application to be sent to: recruitment@vn.gt.com.

For any queries, please contact: hr.recruitment@vn.gt.com.