Accounting & Tax Manager

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Your Role: Accounting & Tax Manager

The Accounting & Tax Associate for Vietnam will be responsible for accounting, financial reporting, controls and compliance related to the new business which Elanco is expecting to acquire.  The role will include collaborating with the affiliate operations finance team, the regional/corporate accounting team, as well as personnel from consulting firms providing outsourced financial reporting and tax services.

The Accounting & Tax Associate will assume the stewardship of key accounting processes (O2C, S2P, R2R) for the acquired business, acting as the point of contact for the business process outsourcer, performing monthly closing entries, supporting outside statutory and tax service providers, preparing and supporting internal and external audits, as well as working capital management.

These responsibilities will be performed in close alignment with the Vietnam Finance Manager and the Vietnam Accounting & Tax Manager for the Elanco business.

This role will be essential as Elanco stands up the acquired business and then ultimately integrates it into the Elanco business. 

Your Responsibilities:

Focus of this role includes the following:

Accounting & General


* Provide local stewardship for accounting and tax processes to be implemented for the business that will be newly acquired, based on Elanco policies and processes


* Perform local legal entity accounting related to the tax and accounting impacts of an anticipated acquisition


* Provide accounting guidance to the local business partners (from the FP&A and controlling teams) on the treatment of transactions that arise during the period


* Prepare necessary monthly closing entries by working closely with the business partners to determine what, if any, activities occurred during the month that require manual journal entries


* Work with the business process outsource team (responsible for the transaction accounting for O2C, P2P, product costing and R2R) to answer questions, elevate issues, etc.


* Execute all local legal entity transformation activities as directed by Corporate Tax team and by ...