Academy of Finance, Hanoi, Vietnam - Major: Business Accounting

KPMG Tax and Advisory Company Limited
Intern
Consultant, Tax and Corporate Services

1, Consulting services provision
Planning:
- Determine risks before performing engagements by obtaining an understanding of an entity's current
business activities
- Conduct a full internal process before providing services, from preparing internal risk management procedures, engagement letters/quotations, controlling the client’s folder, and obtaining job codes to start performing services
- Prepare and organize internal kick-off meetings for teams, prepare logistics before fieldwork for the engagement team
Consulting: Assistance in providing tax professional services focusing on the quality of preparation, delivery, and professional skepticism: Tax retainer, Tax Compliance, Tax audit support, and Tax health checks. My clients include export processing enterprises, FDI, and local companies in various industries: Banking and Finance, Insurance, Manufacturing, Trading, etc. The main responsibilities are as follows:
- Interview and access the current procedures for preparing and submitting the tax returns/filling
- Review clients’ tax returns/filling and reconcile with related documents to ascertain that clients' declarations/fillings are adequately conducted and discover mistakes or issues that are not compliant with the current tax regulations.
- Eliminate clients' illegitimate expenses based on applicable laws and regulations
- Summarize tax exposure and potential administrative penalties based on applicable law
- Help the client prepare explanations to tax authorities to reduce the risk of challenge by tax authorities
- Conduct research to answer client inquiries; support customers in contacting tax authorities
- Provide tax updates for the client to avoid tax penalties or tax challenges
- Collaborate with other functional departments in KPMG to work effectively with clients

2, Administrative assistance:
- Prepare training materials for trainers
- Support in organizing internal and external meetings, preparing meeting minutes, and recording
- Mentor/coach, develop, and assist other staff (assistant, intern) in reaching their full potential
- Prepare and organize internal bonding days and parties for the department
- Admin of KPMG Yoga Club
Grant Thornton Vietnam Company Limited
Tax Associate, Level 1 
Monthly Tax compliance: Review the risks of VAT, PIT, and FCT; support customers to contact tax authorities
Transfer Pricing support: Support in making and finalizing contracts to send to customers. Support upper staff with several indicators to calculate and analyze the industry and market in the local file.
Other services: Salary calculation and pay slip preparation, SHUI calculation, Labor report preparation, and
Bookkeeping services