Panha Bun
Sangkat Choam Chao, Khan Pousenchey, Phnom Penh
Summary
Dynamic tax professional with extensive experience at Hanuman Beverages, excelling in tax optimization and compliance. Proven ability in complex problem-solving and team coaching, ensuring timely tax payments and successful audits. Proficient in ERP systems and dedicated to enhancing operational efficiency while fostering strong team, cross-function, clients and authorities relationships.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Supervisor-Tax
Hanuman Beverages
09.2024 - Current
- Assist team members in daily tasks, review tax working, document filings, DO, invoices, contracts to ensure smooth operational workflows.
- Monitor tax process while running two business module at the same time, distribution mode and Principal & Agent mode.
- Review and prepare monthly tax returns include VAT, SPT, PLT, PPT1%, WHT, ToS&FBT, ensure proper tax payment, on time, and efficiently.
- Assist team members in reviewing accounting record, GL mapping and Financial Statements to ensure proper adjustment in the Tax on Income preparation.
- Well cooperate with the tax officer, especially the officer who stand by at the brew, deal with the tax audits, and protest against non-favorable tax reassessment
- Assist management in preparing tax planning, enhance tax optimization, seek and obtain tax incentives such as DTA, Tax Golden Certificate, Proper Accounting Record Certificate for better tax saving.
- Roll out, tax briefing to customers (depots and distributors) who is being called for registration at the tax administration
- Team coaching and regularly training for new tax regulations and update, ensure compliance and smooth operation.
- Collaborated with colleagues to enhance team efficiency and productivity, also cross-function dept such as procurement, sale and marketing.
Tax Specialist
Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation
07.2018 - 08.2024
- Calculate the tax payments include monthly (VAT, WHT, PPT1% and ToS&FBT, and yearly tax (Patent tax, Signage tax, Tax on Income), ensure correctness and on time.
- Review accounting documents, JV, PV, RV, invoices, GL in P&L and Balance sheet and other element in FS, analyze
transactions to ensure proper tax declaration - Prepare and submit tax ruling, protest letter, request, and administrative letters to the GDT, ACAR, CDC and other authorities.
- Build good relationship with tax officer and auditor ensure smoothness in the tax workflows with the GDT.
- Conducted research on new tax regulations, update to stakeholders such as team members, management, cross function departments to ensure correctness, smooth implementation, and compliance follow the tax rules.
- Well cooperate with external consultant, seek advise and solutions during critical tax issue.
- Reviewed financial statements for discrepancies impacting tax liabilities, proceed tax health check and immediately make tax return amendment if found mistakes to avoid bigger tax penalties.
- Other tasks assigned by managements
Tax Consultant
Rosoco Limited
07.2015 - 06.2018
- Calculate and prepare client's tax returns include monthly and yearly tax, proceed payment to the GDT in timely manner.
- Review and maintain client's accounting bookkeeping
- Assist clients in company registration at MoC, tax registration, work permit and submit NSSF to MLVT, and update company's information profile.
- Provide tax consultancy services, advise clients for the best tax practice, case study, prepare tax rulings and seek request to the GDT.
- Assist client in dealing with the tax officer during tax audit, help client fight back against the tax reassessment
- Other tasks assign by the managements
Associate to Auditor
Rosoco Limited
04.2014 - 07.2015
- Assist auditor in review client's bookkeeping and document filing such as PV, RV, JV, invoices, ensure proper filing and financial management follow the client's policy.
- Conduct physical stock count, fixed asset count, cash count and other remarkable items.
- Raise issues or fraud if found the auditor,
- Build audit proposal fee for new clients.
- Assist auditor in preparing audit report.
- Other tasks assigned by the managements.
Education
High School Diploma -
Chea Sim Samaky High School
Phnom Penh09-2011
GEP Level 12 -
Australia Centre of Education (ACE)
Phnom Penh, Cambodia05-2014
Bachelor of Finance And Banking -
University of Economics And Finance
Phnom Penh06-2015
Diploma of Cambodian Tax Law -
CamEd Business School
Phnom Penh11-2017
Diploma of Accounting Standard CIFRS For SME -
CamEd Business School
Phnom Penh07-2022
Professional Course Tax Agent -
National Tax School
Phnom Penh03-2024
Skills
- Taxation and accounting skills
- Consultant and advisory skills
- Customer service
- Computering and software skills (MS Excel, word, PowerPoint, ERP system (QuickBooks, SAP Hana and SAP B1) and other tools
- Complex Problem-solving
- Team building, coaching, and mentoring
- Multitasking Abilities
- Time management
Accomplishments
-Successfully received USD650k VAT refund in 2024 for Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation after 3 years of auditing process.
-Successfully obtained USD450k WHT credit approval in 2023 for Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation after request WHT return amendment.
-Successfully turned down official tax reassessment from USD6mio to Nil tax reassessment during limited tax audit in 2023 for Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation
-Being named one of the outstanding staff of the finance department for FY2023.
Timeline
Supervisor-Tax
Hanuman Beverages
09.2024 - Current
Tax Specialist
Chip Mong Insee Cement Corporation
07.2018 - 08.2024
Tax Consultant
Rosoco Limited
07.2015 - 06.2018
Associate to Auditor
Rosoco Limited
04.2014 - 07.2015
High School Diploma -
Chea Sim Samaky High School
GEP Level 12 -
Australia Centre of Education (ACE)
Bachelor of Finance And Banking -
University of Economics And Finance
Diploma of Cambodian Tax Law -
CamEd Business School
Diploma of Accounting Standard CIFRS For SME -
CamEd Business School
Professional Course Tax Agent -
National Tax School
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