Experience

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  Golden Gate Restaurant Group

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Head of Financial Control

    • Jul 2022 - Present
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    https://ggg.com.vn/en/Established in 2005, Golden Gate (Golden Gate Trade Services JSC) is a pioneer in applying the restaurant chain model in Vietnam, with five main casual dining cuisines which are Hotpot, BBQ, Asian, Western, and Cafeteria. Golden Gate currently owns 22+ brands and nearly 400 restaurants in 40 provinces throughout Vietnam, serving 18 million customers per year and and constantly expanding.Accounting:- Review all transactions of operating activities for monthly closing Accounting Book.- Cooperating with MIS Team to automate over 100 reports by Power BI including all business functions' reports.- Management Accounting procedure, conversion of VAS to IFRS.Finance:- Building and operating budget control process: PR, PO,...- Cost controlling and cost planning.- MKT campaign analysis and approval: pre-evaluation, post evaluation MKT campaigns.- Operation labour effectiveness: analysis, daily alert systems, identify improvements….- Cost of Good Sold (COS) improvement: pricing model, inventory level, discard control,….Cost Control Management - Commercial (Supply Chain - OPEX)- Management of Commercial Contract.- Approval of purchasing price of Ingredients, services.- Review rebate level and management of suppliers.Cost Control Management - Construction (Construction - CAPEX)- In charge of review FM (Financial Model) of new stores including Sales, customers, operating cost, Capex.- Controlling Capex and approval for each item costs into Capex.

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  Jardine Restaurant Group of Vietnam (JRGVN)

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Commercial and Data Manager

    • Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Pizza Hut Vietnam, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jardine Matheson which is a diversified Asian-based group with a broad portfolio of market-leading businesses.Besides of Commercial and Finance, I oversee building a new function in Pizza Hut Vietnam (Data Analytics function) from April 2021. We are looking for potential candidates in various positions related to Data such as Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Data Architect, Data Translator and Data Analyst to work with Jardines Team in Hongkong and Singapore into innovation and growing our business. Our mission:- Data and Analytics.- Digital operations.- Digital Marketing and Loyalty.- Procurement optimization & process improvement.- Platforms (ERP; Cloud).- Automation.- Scaling new businesses.

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  Pizza Hut Vietnam

  • Food & Beverages
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Commercial and Controlling Manager

    • Sep 2017 - Mar 2020

    Commercial Field- Responsible for the operation of Commercial & Controlling Team and system of sales analysis, market trends & market research, customers’ behaviors.- Budgetary preparation, cost management and internal audit related to Supply Chain, Operation, Market Development and Marketing department to meet the business’ objective.Controlling Field- Cooperating with GARM (Group Audit & Risk Management) of Jardine Group from Hong Kong to develop, update the P&P (Policy and Procedure) for each department and loss prevention at the store level which help all Internal Audit reports in 2017 & 2018 with the Green status (Effective grade) from GARM. - Follow up the implementation status for each of the sub-points in the recommendation from GARM and a conclusion as to whether the recommendation has been implemented / in progress / not implemented under the space provided "Current Implementation Status”.

  • Finance Manager

    • Sep 2016 - Aug 2017

    - Leading the preparation of financial & business plans for annual budget & 3 years projection and assessing division performance monthly.- Set up the Budget Controlling process to make sure all of activities expense within the budget before the approval.- Analyzing the variance by reasons and responsibility and to suggest appropriate corrective measures in deserving cases.- Working with the Market development team to discuss their research about new sites before analyzing feasibility studies of these sites or of new potential provinces, supporting CEO’s decision making of opening new stores.- Responsible for monthly rolling forecast and setting the target MCP (Management Controllable Profit) by store.- Discussing with Operation Manager to point out the areas that could be improved related to ingredient cost, labor cost. - Analyzing cost of goods per store monthly to alert the variance between theoretical vs actual cost and proposing solutions to improve food cost.- Responsibility for controlling process of the business benchmark to improve the labor productivity.

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  KW Commercial

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Finance Manager

    • Aug 2013 - Sep 2016
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    www.kwcommercial.comKW Commercial is a community's segment of Keller Williams Realty, Inc., the number one real estate company in the United States.- Overseeing the Finance department to optimize the Business’ profit, ensure effective cashflow.- Establishing the annual budgets and the five-year projection plans.- Set up the financial and business risks assessment system based on Standard and Poor’s guidelines.- Strategic planning and controlling budgets with effective results having achieved goals in 2014 and 2015.- Finding funds or loans with attractive interest through local banks.- Reviewing tax reports and financial reports to ensure that all Vietnamese Tax laws, Vietnamese Accounting Standards (VAS) and International Accounting Standards (IAS) are applied effectively.- Leading the external audits and reviewing audit reports; Working with Keller Williams Group in United States to submit the monthly reports under International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS).

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  Isocab By Kingspan

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Head of Finance

    • Jul 2012 - May 2013
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    https://www.isocab.com/gb/en/Founded in 1973, Isocab by Kingspan has 50 years of success in the manufacturing sandwich panel industry. In Vietnam, we were operating under business license “Isotech Vietnam” at that time. Isocab completely closed our business in Vietnam in 2013.In charge of Finance department:- Analyzing and providing insights / advice to Board of Management for future financial plans.- Budgeting and Financial controlling.- Ensure compliance with tax laws and reporting requirements.- Group reports and business goals keep track.- All tasks related to Finance.

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  NETiKA

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • General Accountant (Chief Accountant of Subsidiary in Vietnam)

    • May 2010 - Jun 2012
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    https://www.netika.vn Software Development company (Belgian company); Business Solutions company (Partnering with Microsoft) provides services to Heineken, Tiger beer, New Viet Dairy…Reviewing all general ledger transactions, monthly reconcile the trial balance and reports. Organizing financial statements and cooperating with the external auditors in the year mandatory audit. Taking responsibility for all VAT, CIT, PIT reports, withholding tax reports.Preparation of financial and business plans for annual budgets, cash flow. Keep tracking weekly, monthly budgets to ensure all activities are within budget before the approval.

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  HAITHANH FOOD

  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  • Management Accountant (Management Trainee)

    • Mar 2007 - Apr 2010
    • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    https://www.haithanhfood.com Manufacturing of Frozen Food which are exporting to Japan, distributing to local supermarkets and F&B brands such as Pizza Hut and KFC…Successfully setting up a Cost of goods sold system in the Manufactory.Planning annual budgets and assessing division performances. Analyzing the variances and suggesting the appropriate corrective measures. Forecasting the company's income statements, balance sheet and cash flow statements by making numerous detailed assumptions about items such as revenue, profit margins, tax rates, changes in working capital accounts, capital spending, financing requirements, and potential cash flow generation. Supporting the Director Manufacturing of Food Processing and Director Manufacturing of Frozen Food on all process improvement initiatives that impact product cost, efficiency and overheads.