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TOAI PHAM

Seattle,WA

Summary

  • Rich experience financial management profession in all finance and accounting disciplines over 25 years of progressive career in MNCs and listed companies.
  • Entrepreneurial COO-CFO who has direct experience in business formation, acquisition, and restructuring; focus emphasized in consumer goods, manufacturing, and retail.
  • Is a hand-on manager who had built three high performance teams through vision sharing, coaching and real works in the setting set up accounting and finance functions, processes, operation model in billion $US listed companies.
  • Is technical savvy with dual degrees in Accounting and IT, who see opportunities in real businesses and effectively employ information technology to gain competitiveness for the organizations.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

Advisor to the Board then CEO

AA Corporation
05.2022 - 06.2023
  • Advised the Boards on strategic planning, new business formation: Company's OGSM, long and medium-term plan, annual plan
  • Led the design and implementation of company high-performance organization
  • Led the Company Annual Plan 2023.

Chief Operating Officer (Wincommerce)

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Led the acquisition due diligence and run the post-acquisition restructuring to turn around this loss-making business
  • Built the company-wide transformation program with support from BCG
  • Implemented turn-around transformation program and delivered EBITDA break-even by Q4/2020 (from -ve 180 million in 2019).

Group Strategic Planning Director

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2019 - 12.2019
  • Led the Annual Plan, setting KPIs for four business sub-divisions
  • Led, set up and standardized the financial planning and analysis process for the Group and subsidiaries
  • Was a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, providing financial input for strategic initiatives i.e., acquisition, new business formation
  • Participated and implemented two business acquisitions in 2019 and multiple Investor briefing and fund-raising roadshows in London, Hongkong and Singapore.

Chief Operating Officer (Masan Consumer Holding)

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2016 - 12.2018
  • Led the Group’s Operation Efficiency Agenda, deliver cost efficiency thorough integrated supply chain (ISC) including Plan - Source - Make - Deliver - Quality and SHE
  • Delivered dependable and cost-efficient products supply via operation optimization of fourteen manufacturing sites, logistic operation, and distribution network of over 300 distributors, 300,000 POSs
  • Owner of $400 mio/year budget for production and delivery gross margin saving to support the average gross margin at 40% + compared to a 30% range from the competitor.

Chief Finance Officer (Masan Consumer Holding)

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2009 - 12.2015
  • Transformed the company from a small manufacturing base into Vietnam’s largest listed corporation with consolidated revenue of over $3 bio/year and 20%+ PAT
  • Set up company holding structure, control framework; Designed clear R&A and performance KPIs amongst subsidiaries; Set up the company's accounting, financial planning and analysis department; Set up the company’s ESOP and reward program, the new ERP, Distributor Management System (Siebel) and cloud-based IT infrastructure in 2010 (Oracle’s SaaS)
  • Was a key member in Masan Group IPO in 2009 and led multiple private equity placements rounds from International Institutions (TPG, KKR) in 2010- 2015
  • Did planning and execution of strategic acquisitions in Masan consumer and sat in the Board of the acquired subsidiaries to ensure successful integration and transformation of these businesses.

Group Financial Controller

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.2006 - 12.2008
  • Led the Financial Accounting Team in providing all accounting, reporting, treasury, tax, insurance, risk assurance, and internal and external audit for a group of four Unilever companies in Vietnam
  • Was the owner of Company's Balance sheets and Cashflows performance, company’s KFC (Key Financial Controls), Schedule of Authority, RACI, Chart of Accounts, Business Processes Design and Company ERP system (BPCS, SAP)
  • Delivered healthy cashflows, low ETR, low cost of funds and full compliance with internal and external accounting and reporting regulation/policy.

Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.2001 - 12.2005
  • Led the Company’s Long-term Planning, the Annual Planning and Budgeting, including the negotiation and setting up of Company’s departmental KPIs/Targets
  • Led the Financial Planning and Analysis Department to analyze, monitor, review, and steward the internal performance against budget and targets
  • Led the Company’s Monthly Performance Review with the Board
  • Provided financial partnering services to Brand building and activation, Customer Development, HR, and Supply Chain through regular financial review and analysis i.e., budget variance analysis, pricing for new product, supply chain cost optimization, gross margin improvement, ROI on marketing and trade terms investment
  • Provided in-depth analysis for focus projects and new initiatives i.e., new investment, new business model, trade terms optimization, factory relocation, SKUs rationalization, suppliers partnership modelling.

Corporate Internal Audit (Singapore)

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.1999 - 12.2000
  • Audit member of Unilever Global Internal Audit, performing Corporate Risk Assurance in all BUs in Asia
  • Gained a wide range of operation experiences in finance and non-finance, in various working cultures through fifteen country audits and special focused audits (Bestfoods acquisition)
  • Was appointed as “Key Financial Control Champion” of the Asia Corporate Audit to author, advise on KFC best practice in Asia Audit Team i.e., Risks identification and statement, fieldwork test method, opinion forming and support.

Corporate Accounting Manager

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.1998 - 12.1998
  • Led the monthly/quarterly and year-end closing
  • Perform country consolidation and reconciliation of three sets of reports: Statutory Financial Report (VAS), Unilever Financial Accounting Report (IFRS) and Unilever Management Report
  • Handled BTL (Below-the-line) operation i.e., Treasury, Tax, Unilever Corporate Central Charge, and Insurance of the Group
  • Used Visual Basic for Application to develop programs and tools for automation of many accounting and reporting tasks i.e., data extraction, cleaning and aggregation, consolidation, and reconciliation of four subsidiaries; three sets of GAAP reporting; two finance departments (Financial Accounting and Management Accounting - FP&A
  • Thank to my background knowledge in both accounting and information technology, I had improved Vietnam’s reporting score significantly, from bottom twenty to top 10 out of Unilever’s 100 reporting units, within six months.

Head of Technical Support Department

Vietnam Liquefied Petroleum Gas
01.1994 - 12.1998
  • Led the technical team to work with industrial and commercial customers in exploring and developing LPG-consumed solutions to meet customer’s needs on premises
  • Provided technical services and support to customers e.g., design, supply, erection, installation of LPG storage tank, piping, valves, LPG-burned equipment
  • Led the commercial negotiation with customers to provide one-stop-shop services including equipment supply and installation, LPG supply; Thus, successfully bridged the gaps between internal technical capability and market demands and created a new big and growing market segments (i.e., bulk customers) for the company beside the traditional household customers.

Offshore Catering Supervisor

Vietnam Oil Service Company
01.1991 - 12.1993
  • Lead the non-technical team providing offshore catering services i.e., logistic, supplies, doctor, F&B and Living quarter services on oil rigs operating offshore Vietnam at Big Bear Oil Field
  • Acting as Company representatives on offshore oil rigs in coordination with land base for any other services and assistance

Accounting Supervisor

Union of Pigs and Feeds Companies
07.1988 - 12.1990
  • Supervise accounting operation at 6 subsidiaries to ensure correct and timely booking
  • Perform reconciliation and consolidation of the subsidiaries’ books into Company financial statements.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Technology and Education
Vietnam
07-1998

Bachelor of Arts - Finance and Accounting

University of Economics
Vietnam
06-1994

Associate of Arts - Accounting

Economics College in HCMC
Vietnam
07-1988

Skills

  • Financial Planning and Budgeting
  • Financial Analysis, Quantitative analysis
  • New products development
  • Key Financial Control, RACI, SOA
  • Business formation, modeling
  • Merge and Acquisition
  • Targets, KPIs Setting and Monitoring
  • Accounting and reporting
  • Product costing
  • Internal Audit
  • New product pricing
  • Integrated Supply Chain Management
  • Business Process Design
  • BPCS, Oracle ERP, SAP, Siebel CRM
  • MS Office full suites
  • Excel, Power BI, VBA programming

Social References

https://www.linkedin.com/in/toai-dinh-pham-8938753, https://www.masangroup.com/masanconsumer/our-people/, https://s.cafef.vn/CEO/CEO_08771/pham-dinh-toai.chn, https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/MCH.HNO/, https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/18811947?embedded-checkout=true

Timeline

Advisor to the Board then CEO

AA Corporation
05.2022 - 06.2023

Chief Operating Officer (Wincommerce)

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2020 - 12.2020

Group Strategic Planning Director

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2019 - 12.2019

Chief Operating Officer (Masan Consumer Holding)

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2016 - 12.2018

Chief Finance Officer (Masan Consumer Holding)

Masan Group (Vietnam)
01.2009 - 12.2015

Group Financial Controller

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.2006 - 12.2008

Financial Planning & Analysis Director

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.2001 - 12.2005

Corporate Internal Audit (Singapore)

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.1999 - 12.2000

Corporate Accounting Manager

Unilever Vietnam - Unilever Asia
01.1998 - 12.1998

Head of Technical Support Department

Vietnam Liquefied Petroleum Gas
01.1994 - 12.1998

Offshore Catering Supervisor

Vietnam Oil Service Company
01.1991 - 12.1993

Accounting Supervisor

Union of Pigs and Feeds Companies
07.1988 - 12.1990

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Technology and Education

Bachelor of Arts - Finance and Accounting

University of Economics

Associate of Arts - Accounting

Economics College in HCMC

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