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Hossam Hassan Soliman

Hossam Hassan Soliman

Dubai

Summary

Experienced Senior Finance Officer at JENGAN L.L.C., proficient in ERP systems and financial statement preparation, with a demonstrated history of streamlining financial processes and improving audit efficiency. Leveraging strong analytical and problem-solving skills, successfully reduced audit fees through in-sourcing initiatives, showcasing dedication to financial optimization and effective stakeholder engagement.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Finance Officer

JENGAN L.L.C
Dubai
01.2024 - Current
  • Prepared information, forms, and data to assist in seamless and efficient financial audit procedures.
    Identified and resolved operational issues impacting productivity, performance, or profitability.
  • Monitored operations to assess and highlight results.
    Created and led a successful business culture focused on performance.
  • Conducting financial transactions: overseeing all financial transactions, such as issuing payments, collecting debts, and investing money.
  • Preparing financial reports: preparing financial reports, such as balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
  • Budgeting: developing and maintaining financial models, forecasts, and budgets to ensure the organization's financial health and stability.
  • Record-keeping: maintaining accurate records for all daily transactions and preparing balance sheets .
  • Policy management: ensuring compliance with financial policies and regulations.
  • Auditing support: providing support for internal and external audits.
  • Monitoring transactions: monitoring transactions to ensure they are conducted legally and ethically.
  • Other duties: additional responsibilities may include processing invoices, handling payroll, and ensuring the organization's financial records are accurate and up-to-date.
  • Overall, the Finance Officer plays a critical role in maintaining an organization's financial health and stability.
  • Thoroughly maintained and recorded in Odoo ERP to maintain compliance with quality control and protocol.
  • Reduced audit fees by bringing audit processes in-house.
  • Complied with Sarbanes-Oxley Act and GAAP principles to maintain complete transparency.
  • Mitigated annual audit risks and developed final certification reports for small businesses.
  • Developed staff expense and reimbursement tracker to reduce user errors and increase reporting accuracy.
  • Assisted clients in determining business strategy and achieving profitability goals.
  • Researched changes in laws to maintain adherence to financial regulations.
  • Minimized internal accounting department backlogs by updating accounts and generating reports.
  • Cross-trained employees, enabling completion of priority tasks during personnel absences.
  • Investigated and resolved billing issues to maximize cash flow and minimize liabilities.
  • Maximized tax refunds by striving to obtain taxable income, deductible expenses and allowance details.
  • Assisted in preparing monthly financial statements and supporting schedules.
  • Posted financial data in Excel spreadsheets and managed inventory.
  • Maintained accurate accounts for cash, fixed assets and other transactions.

Senior Accountant

ROC Citizenship
Dubai
01.2022 - 12.2023

* Verify, allocate, post, and reconcile accounts payable and receivable
* Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
* Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
* Spot errors and suggest ways to improve efficiency and spending
* Provide technical support and advice on Management Accountant
* Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
* Manage accounting assistants and bookkeepers
* Participate in financial standards setting and in the forecast process
* Provide input into the department’s goal-setting process
* Prepare financial statements and produce budget according to schedule
* Assist with tax audits and tax returns
* Direct internal and external audits to ensure compliance
* Plan, assigned, and reviewed staff’s work
* Support month-end and close year-end process
* Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
* Ensure compliance with GAAP principles
* Liaise with our Financial Manager and Accounting Manager to improve financial procedures

Senior Accountant - Payables Accounts

MAM Food Co L.LC
Dubai, AE
01.2021 - 12.2021
  • Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
  • Updated general ledger with latest entries.
  • Reconciled balance sheets and streamlined best practices for balance sheet processes.
  • Handled month-end and year-end-end finances by managing and reporting fixed assets and other data.
  • Completes payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices.
  • Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
  • Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries.
  • Pays vendors by monitoring discount opportunities, verifying federal id numbers, scheduling and preparing checks, and resolving purchase orders, contracts, invoices, or payment discrepancies and documentation.
  • Ensures credit is received for outstanding memos.
  • Issues stop-payments or purchase order amendments.
  • Pays employees by receiving and verifying expense reports and requests for advances; prepare checks.
  • Maintains accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions.
  • Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions.
  • Maintains historical records by microfilming and filing documents.
  • Disburses petty cash by recording entries and verifying documentation.
  • Reports sales taxes by calculating requirements on paid invoices.
  • Protects the organization's value by keeping information confidential.
  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
  • Accomplishes accounting and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
  • Set up and improved accounting systems and processes to meet business needs and maximize operational success

Accountant Receivable and Collections

ABB
Cairo,Egypt
01.2019 - 12.2019
  • Process accounts and incoming payments in compliance with financial policies and procedures
  • Perform day-to-day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivables' data
  • Prepare bills, invoices and bank deposits
  • Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and properly posted.
  • Verify discrepancies by and resolve clients' billing issues
  • Facilitate payment of invoices due by sending bill reminders and contacting clients
  • Generate financial statements and reports detailing accounts receivable status Collaborating on debt collection efforts with Accounts, Sales, and the Legal Department.
  • Developing debt collection strategies and plans.
  • Contacting debtors by telephone to enact and negotiate debt recovery.
  • Searching publicly available databases to track down defaulters, including Credit Bureau information, background checks, and loan documents.
  • Preventing repeated payment delinquency by negotiating manageable debt payments.
  • Negotiating settlements to receive payment on a certain percentage of the debt.
  • Keeping hard copies and electronic records of all communications, payment plans agreed to, and amounts paid.
  • Sending statements of delinquencies and satisfied debts to the Credit Bureau, as well as purging records where debts have been satisfied.
  • Initiating legal and repossession proceedings if debt recovery fails.
  • Gathered financial information, prepared documents and closed books.

Senior Accountant

Uptown Rent a Car
Dubai, AE
01.2017 - 12.2018
  • Coordinating accounting functions and programs.
    Preparing financial analyses and reports.
  • Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditures.
  • Collaborated with bank representatives to negotiate capital requirements.
  • Decreased invoicing and receivable cycle times by streamlining billing systems.
  • Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets.
  • Maintaining and reconciling balance sheets and general ledger accounts.
  • Prepared monthly journal entries and reconciliations.
  • Assisting with annual audit preparations.
  • Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance.
  • Preparing federal, state, local, and special tax returns.
  • Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.
  • Performing other accounting duties and supporting junior staff as required or assigned.

Senior Accountant

Rowed Modern Engineering
Cairo, Egypt
01.2015 - 12.2017
  • Coordinating accounting functions and programs.
  • Preparing financial analyses and reports.
  • Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditure.
  • Collaborated with bank representatives to negotiate capital requirements.
  • Decreased invoicing and receivable cycle times by streamlining billing systems.
  • Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets.
  • Maintaining and reconciling balance sheets and general ledger accounts.
  • Assisting with annual audit preparations.
  • Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance.
  • Preparing federal, state, local, and special tax returns.
  • Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.
  • Performing other accounting duties and supporting junior staff as required or assigned.

General Accountant

Wadi Degla Holding
Dubai, AE
12.2013 - 12.2014
  • Reviewing all financial transactions for accuracy and ensuring that accounting records are up to date
  • Preparing financial statements, tax returns, and other reports based on standard accounting practices
  • Providing reports to management regarding the financial status of the company, including trends over time
  • Preparing budgets and forecasting future cash flow needs based on forecasted sales figures
  • Reviewing financial statements and recommending adjustments to improve the accuracy of reporting
  • Managing accounts payable and receivable, including collecting payments and identifying potential risks of non-payment
  • Preparing reports on financial activities, such as sales figures, cash flow projections, and inventory levels
  • Reviewing purchase orders before they are processed to ensure that they comply with company policies
  • Reviewing financial data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks in order to make strategic business decisions
  • Created and introduced updated processes for accounts receivable sub-ledger and customer attribute reporting

Accountant - Cost Control

ABB
Cairo, Egypt
01.2009 - 09.2012
  • Accounting system, accounting records, and bookkeeping.
  • Customer accounts for all projects.
  • Accounts payable for all projects.
  • Calculating the insurance value for each project and informing the insurance authority.
  • Assisting the financial manager in making the monthly report of customer accounting which is
  • Forwarded to ABB in Zurich - Switzerland.
    Scope of work.
  • Ensure that all the received cheques had been entered into accounts receivables.
  • Review all the credit balances during the month.
  • Review the irregular customer irregular balances and settle them.
  • Review of the postdated and returned cheques with the bank's accounts.
  • Reconcile customers' analytic balances with the total balances of the customers in the financial accounts.
  • Review the unpaid invoices and prepare a monthly report.
  • Analyze and review the customers' balances on the BA level.
  • Reconcile advance payment balances with balances of current l.Gs.
  • Reviewed accounting structures and procedures on regular basis to identify areas in need of improvement.

Education

Bachelor Degree in Commerce - Accountant

NEW CAIRO ACADEMY
Cairo, Egypt
12.2006

Skills

  • Knowledge of Accounting Practices
  • Proficiency in Accounting Software
  • Ability to Prepare Financial Statements
  • Knowledge of General Business Practices
  • Ability to Analyze Data
  • Critical Thinking Skills
  • Accounting Organizational Skills
  • Time Management Skills
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs Word Excel PowerPoint
  • Time management
  • Analytical thinking
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Organization and strong attention to detail
  • Stellar written and verbal communication skills
  • Active listening
  • Clerical knowledge
  • Business knowledge
  • Customer service
  • Excellent
  • Experience with computers
  • ERP System
  • SAP System
  • Focus System
  • Telly 9 System
  • Odoo ERP
  • Savings accounts
  • Financial statement preparation
  • Financial projections
  • Accounts receivable management
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Accounts payable management
  • Debt management
  • Investment analysis
  • Tax compliance
  • Stakeholder communication

Timeline

Sr. Finance Officer

JENGAN L.L.C
01.2024 - Current

Senior Accountant

ROC Citizenship
01.2022 - 12.2023

Senior Accountant - Payables Accounts

MAM Food Co L.LC
01.2021 - 12.2021

Accountant Receivable and Collections

ABB
01.2019 - 12.2019

Senior Accountant

Uptown Rent a Car
01.2017 - 12.2018

Senior Accountant

Rowed Modern Engineering
01.2015 - 12.2017

General Accountant

Wadi Degla Holding
12.2013 - 12.2014

Accountant - Cost Control

ABB
01.2009 - 09.2012

Bachelor Degree in Commerce - Accountant

NEW CAIRO ACADEMY
Hossam Hassan Soliman