Cluster Country Financial Controller - Vietnam & Philipines, based in HCMC

About Astra Zeneca and Astra Zeneca Vietnam
Astra Zeneca
Astra Zeneca (LSE/STO/Nasdaq: AZN) is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of prescription medicines in Oncology, Rare Diseases and Bio Pharmaceuticals, including Cardiovascular, Renal & Metabolism, and Respiratory & Immunology. Based in Cambridge, UK, Astra Zeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. Please visit astrazeneca.com and follow the Company on Twitter @Astra Zeneca.

Astra Zeneca Vietnam
As a Foreign Invested Enterprise with over 600 members, Astra Zeneca is investing into Vietnam 360 million USD from 2020 to 2030 with a focus on reducing the burdens of non-communicable diseases, developing local talent, and uplifting the domestic biopharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing capabilities.

Over the last three decades accompanying Vietnam’s sustainable development, Astra Zeneca has run several impactful programmes in collaboration with the Government, Ministry of Health and healthcare partners to promote disease awareness, prevention and early detection. In recent years, Astra Zeneca Vietnam has received several certificates of merit from the Prime Minister and Minister of Health, for excellent contributions to Vietnam’s vaccine diplomacy, fight against COVID-19 and advancement of cancer treatment and disease awareness. The company has also been recognized among Vietnam’s Top 100 Best Places to Work (2018 – 2023) with various other industry awards from Brit Cham, Euro Cham, and government agencies

What you’ll do

The Cluster Country Financial Controller (Vietnam & Philippines) provides specialist finance expertise to the local organization, ensuring that statutory reporting requirements and local tax requirements are fully in line with local legal requirements (local GAAP and tax legislation) and AZ accounting principles and standards. The Financial Controller oversees and collaborates with Global Finance Services (GFS) to ensures that activities are fully compliant with local requirements. Responsibilities also cover the roll out of global projects at a local level and ensuring that systems and processes are fully functional. The Financial Controller is responsible for the local risk management and an accurate and up-to-date FCF framework at market level, ensuring that adequate controls are in place and operational to mitigate the risks in the market. Driving working capital management and a proactive supervision of DSO and DPO.

Typical Accountabilities:

Key accountabilities of this role are in the oversight of tax and statutory compliance, while ensuring satisfactory control environment in the business at all times. This role will leverage on GFS for their support in performing day to day operational activities related to controllership matters including accounting, report, tax and financial control.

1. Tax:

• Responsible for managing relationship with GFS, providing all necessary local business input for Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, Transfer Pricing Documentation and quarterly tax reporting process to facilitate timely submissions

• Provide support GFS to establishing local transfer price recommendations to Global Tax
• Ensure that local tax activities are fully in line with local legislation and Global tax policies. Informing CCFO on a regular basis on material financial risks, particularly in relation to tax audits
• Be the single point of contact for country tax authorities during tax audits

2. Statutory and Management Reporting

• Responsible for compliance with AZ Accounting Polices and standards and other requirements for timely and accurate of submission of Management Accounts data in the different group systems.
• Continuously develop the relationship and ensure GFS knowledge meets the requirement to carry out their activities (enhance the communication and in case of necessity provide relevant support)
• Oversight of GFS service delivery in timely and accurate completion, and filing of all local statutory accounts in accordance with local legal requirements

3. Internal control environment:

• Manage the Company’s risk management and oversee FCF assessment process for the local market, ensuring risks are identified and adequate controls are in place and operational in the local market
• Responsible for bi-annual FCF submission to Cluster CFO / Area Finance Director
• Active participation in local compliance committee meeting, ensuring a satisfactory control environment in the business at all times
• Responsible for updating local policies and procedures on a regular basis, i.e. local market SOPs
• Observing the Astra Zeneca Code of Conduct & Core values, and all other local and global policies and procedures stated by Astra Zeneca in order to enhance AZ Corporate Reputation
• Ensure a professional management of internal and external audits with a successful completion of the audits

4. Cash and Treasury

• Supporting GFS in ensuring timely payments to the suppliers and managing relationship with local banks.
• Provides professional stewardship of the company’s cash, in conformance with policies and procedures.
• Ensures that the local company is properly funded. Monitoring that the local company is fully compliant with all internal and external policies and legislations (cash payments, T&E regulations, corporate cards etc.)

5. Information system

• Acting as a functional analyst of those systems impacting the activities under his/her scope, guaranteeing the systems and processes cover the local statutory accounting and tax legislative requirements.

6. Local and global projects

• Support local roll out of Finance Transformation projects in line with business needs
• To join and support those projects which could impact the accounting and tax activities
• Drive required decision at the local country level

7. Business Partnering:

• Identifies and communicates key business performance insights, to provide clarity and drive decision making.
• Provide statutory and tax advices in supporting business model change/new partnership deals

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential

• Qualified finance professional with accounting accreditation (ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
• Minimum 13 to 15 years post-qualification experience, with minimum 5 years external audit experience and remaining years in managerial role of similar nature in commercial organizations. Preference of BIG4 working experience.
• In-depth understanding of regulatory/statutory requirements and governance principles, familiar with IFRS and SOX
• Skill in analyzing and solving issues related to controllership areas
• Vietnamese proficiency

Desirable

• Demonstrated continuous personal growth and learning agility throughout leadership journey.
• Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experience highly desirable
• Experience to manage other markets is preferable

Why Astra Zeneca?
Be bold and make a powerful impact: Astra Zeneca is a world-leading business where standards are high and challenges complex, but also a collective where we build, support and motivate each other. This unique combination of strong expectation and empowerment invites you to improve how our markets work and make your individual mark. Here, you can follow your ambitions with full confidence. As part of a responsible, value-led business with a strong sustainability agenda, you can also help impact the future beyond business projects.
Be part of our growth journey and success story: Join the fastest growing pharmaceutical company in our markets, set up to fuel further growth. Make the most of our assets: our strong heritage, our early investment and commitment in emerging markets, and how we embrace digital and data to transform the patient journey. Go beyond your limits. Welcome failure as a chance to learn. There’s no better place to feel inspired, energised and try new things.
Learn and grow by embracing diverse opportunities: Experience an organisation where professional development is prized and nurtured. Access the tools and support you need to continuously learn. Then it’s up to each of us to step up, speak up and show what we can do. Take advantage of working in a global business with opportunities to move beyond your role and open international doors. At Astra Zeneca, your future is in your own hands.
Urgently bring our leading pipeline to millions of patients in need: Seize the opportunity to help improve the lives of millions of patients, including in areas where patient needs are often unmet. Work with our transformative pipeline to help bring a variety of high-quality medicines to market – and ensure they are made easily accessible to as many patients as possible.
Be heard in a culture of local empowerment: Astra Zeneca is set up for creativity. We encourage unity and ownership at a local level, with collaboration across the global organisation. We tailor how we work, adapting to our markets and healthcare systems. In our diverse community, every voice is important. Share your ideas and opinions openly. In our speak-up culture, the way we communicate with each other leads to more powerful innovation.

What will you get?
We provide driven packages and benefits for proficient and qualified candidates; a winning dream team and colleagues who share ONE values, ideas, and goals.

So, what’s next?
If you are already inspiring yourself to join our dream team, we can’t wait to hear from you.
If you are ready to bring new insights and fresh thinking to the table, Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours.
If you’re curious to know more then please take initiative to recruitment.Vietnam@astrazeneca.com. We encourage your application.

Where can I find out more?
Visit our website www.astrazeneca.vn
Follow us on Linked In www.linkedin.com/company/astrazeneca/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Astra Zeneca VN
Contact us via recruitment.Vietnam@astrazeneca.com