Cong Nguyen Thanh

Experience

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  Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB)

  Oct 2014 - Dec 2014

  Intern

  I had been trained about actual knowledge and skills in loans evaluation. I hadopportunity to meet customers, communicating and information to make report andthen express opinions about loan requests. I also was given real documents to workwith.I noticed that things i have learned in the university were very different in real life. I hadchances to work with other brothers/sisters in a professional way. I have learned lots ofskills in communicating, making relationship with co-workers, analyzing, draftingdocument and many other things. Show less

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  Phan An Co., Ltd

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  Salesman and Logistic Assistant

  - Supporting our customers with their requests.- Checking and comparing price from supliers and make report for the manager.- Effectively in using phone and email contact to engage and develop customer prospects.- Finding new potential customers of forwarding companies and factories.- Follow-up on payment collections and ensure on-time payment from the customers.

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  Sai Gon Shoes Joint Stock Company

  Dec 2015 - Oct 2018

  General Accountant

  - Performed varied and progressive accounting duties, included Accounts Payable - Accounts Receivable - Assets Management - Payroll - General Ledger – Taxation.- Experience in using accounting software MISA.- Develop and maintain the policies that govern the company's reporting process and ensures compliance with generally accepted reporting standards.- Prepare internal reports when required.- Safeguard and provide recommendation to improve systems and procedures and initiate corrective actions. Show less

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  Saigon Shoes Joint Stock Company

  Oct 2016 - Oct 2018

  Legal Advisor

  - Do legal research to find out the applicable laws and relevant case laws. Continuously look for opportunities to improve quality and efficiency.- Consult, guide and coordinate with other department in accordance with the law.- Draft and Review contracts and organize the verification of legal documents sent to customers, partners and government.- Have experience in resolving disputes at the court, communicating with Stage Agencies.

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  Smartlog Vietnam

  Oct 2018 - May 2019

  General Accountant

  - Performed and controlled varied accounting tasks.- Prepared internal reports when required.- Set up Internal accounting procedure in a Start-up Company.- Controlled, analyzed, demonstrated finance statement to the BOD.- Gave comments on the legal issues of contracts, labors, operation.

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  Manulife

  May 2019 - Jun 2021

  Senior Specialist | Finance and Accounting

  - Handling, tracking all payments for vendors with high volume of transactions, maintaining vendor’s data.- Ensuring the payments were processed in accordance with the laws, regulations and internal policies, compliance.- Monthly bank reconciliation (8 bank accounts, suspense accounts) and daily cross check between G/L booking and bank statement, maintain credit back transactions and make amended letters.- Reporting, updating about payment process, cash flow, and other financial reports.- Guiding, supporting users about system’s operation and communicating with regional team to resolve issues of SAP system, building and updating guidelines in payments process and some FAQs which could help other users easier in processing payments, especially new users- Cooperating with other teams for closing month booking and update new payment process, enhancement.- Controlling banking authorities, system access, approval limits- Being a Manulife Hero of Q3/2020 which is the quarterly recognition for most valuable employees. Show less

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  Manulife Vietnam

  Jul 2021 - May 2023

  Senior MIS reporting Specialist - Finance and Accounting

  - Ensure month-end closing process meet deadline- Prepare subledgers for in charged accounts, perform reconciliation, explain difference (if any) and follow up with related parties to clean up the variances.- Clean up any outstanding difference between local Ledger and IFRS Ledger to ensure data from local Ledger are consistent with IFRS Ledger, provide the detail for the gap between IFRS and local GAAP ledgers.- Work with other parties to reconcile accounts payable related to reinsurance- Prepare MIS Reporting following the IFRS requirements, intangibles asset impairment, suspense accounts aging report, combined sign-off, liquidity, IFRS Financial statement commentaries and others as required by Regional Team.- Support IFRS 17 project: Prepare reinsurance related booking according to IFRS 17’s requirements, make adjustment entries for IFRS 17, update reports and reconcile data between Local GAAP and IFRS 17.- Review and record IFRS 16 entries.- Share services management: Transfer knowledge to share services team (MBPS), coordinate transition process, update with management team about the migration status, performance and accuracy of shares services team.- Finance system management: follow up with regional team for new updates then update, provide training with Finance team, update account chart in the system accordingly, review access rights to finance system, testing new system updates, migrate data, risk control.- Join in project AVIVA Migration to Manulife: meeting with project team and Aviva to clarify the unclear items when migration, set up system, gain access rights, migrate opening balance, support clean up outstanding items, knowledge transfer for AVIVA finance team.- ERP system experience: Clearly understand the system from set-up, input data to system, reconcile after posting to system, create ticket to fix the issues.- Power BI knowledge: Understand the power BI and can use power BI to build the reports. Show less

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  Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Ltd.

  Jun 2023 - now

  Associate Manager