James Bryan Soliman, Accountant (Personal/Company)

James Bryan Soliman

Accountant (Personal/Company)

Oberried General Maintenance, L.L.C.

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Accountancy
Expérience
15 years, 1 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :15 years, 1 Mois

Accountant (Personal/Company) à Oberried General Maintenance, L.L.C.
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • Je travaille ici depuis juillet 2015

Overall Work Purpose:
- To accurately make reports of the owner’s cash flow activities and making sure that all his properties’ contracts are up-to-date.

Major Responsibilities:
- Making sure that all tenancy contracts are up-to-date and payments were received.
- Prepares monthly Cash Flow and Budget reports.
- Responsible in ensuring that all payable are paid on time.
- Responsible in ensuring that all receivables are accurate, collected, recorded and processed in the bank.
- Responsible in handling and reconciling Petty Cash Fund.
- Preparing salary for the company and owner’s personal household.
- Documenting all finance related items of the owner.
- Analyze owner's finance especially loans.
- Prepare monthly bank reconciliation.
- Handling all records of owner's personal business transactions.
- Writing cheques to be issued by the owner and keeping records for all cheques issued.

Operations Manager à IBM GLOBAL PROCESSING SERVICES, INC
  • Philippines
  • octobre 2014 à avril 2015

Overall Work Purpose:
- To plan, direct, coordinate and improve the processes of the team as well as its’ members.

Major Responsibilities:
- Review and approve reports submitted by the team before payment of taxes.
- Lead year-end processes. Ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of each task.
- Answer urgent and/or escalated customer and client inquiries.
- Responsible in process coordination, supervision and development.
- Responsible for optimizing performance against Service Level Agreements and budget responsibility.
- Responsible for project management, portfolio, transformation initiatives, compliance (business controls, internal controls, separation of duties, compliance testing) and ownership of the Business Continuity Plan.

Payroll Senior Service Associate à IBM GLOBAL PROCESSING SERVICES, INC
  • Philippines
  • juin 2012 à septembre 2014

Overall Work Purpose:
- Ensures the accuracy and veracity of all reports in the system before processing payment of taxes.

Major Responsibilities:
- Back-up of manager in attending client and/or managers meeting and looking after the team.
- Helping in the critical year-end activities.
- Process Daily, Weekly and Monthly reconciliation for Federal Taxes and Wages.
- Process daily Federal tax payments to IRS.
- Process Weekly Payroll Balancing for Federal, State and Local taxes and wages. Also, reconciling earnings and deductions versus net pay.
- Process Monthly and Quarterly reconciliation of Federal 941 before submission to IRS.
- Process Quarterly State withholding and unemployment reconciliation.
- Monitor US tax changes for Federal, State and Local. Also, monitors other changes that will affect tax.
- Assist in adhoc tasks and critical client requests.
- Solving regular cases, fast-track and escalated to client cases within TAT.
- Trains new hire and monitor his training plan.

Internal Auditor à GOLDEN ABC, INC (Fashion Retail Brands)
  • Philippines
  • avril 2011 à juin 2012

Overall Work Purpose:
- Review and evaluate company procedures. Recommend improvements on identified risks and control weaknesses.

Major Responsibilities:
- Prepares detailed audit programs and schedules based on the audit plans presented by the Audit Head.
- Ensures the accuracy of the General Ledger specifically Assets of the company like Cash, Accounts Receivable, Merchandise Inventory, etc.
- Reconcile and analysis inventory level of boutiques and concessions.
- Checks the company's system flow and compliance of every department on the set SOP. Ensures that all control systems are in place.
- Report to the management on the adequacy and effectiveness of the organization’s systems of internal control, together with ideas, counsel, and recommendations to improve the system.
- Update Audit procedures.

Operations Auditor à METRO PACIFIC TOLLWAYS DEVELOPMENT CORP
  • Philippines
  • novembre 2010 à février 2011

Overall Work Purpose:
- Review and evaluate operational procedures through risk analysis and recommend systems improvements on identified risks and control weaknesses.

Major Responsibilities:
- Prepares detailed audit programs and schedules based on the audit plans presented by the Audit Head.
- Identify and evaluate the exposures to loss that are related to the company operations.
- Review and evaluate operational procedures through risk analysis and recommend systems improvements on identified risks and control weaknesses.
- Assist in establishing procedures on areas where there are no controls or controls are insufficient that exposes the company to risks.
- Ascertain that the ongoing processes for controlling operations throughout the Metro Pacific Tollways group are adequately designed and functioning in an effective manner.
- May be required to conduct under-cover investigations and operations audit. Act as team leader during conduct of audit.
- Updating of Audit procedures.
- Report to the management on the adequacy and effectiveness of the organization’s systems of internal control, together with ideas, counsel, and recommendations to improve the system.

Senior Internal Auditor à SUPER 8 RETAIL SYSTEMS, INC (Supermarket Chain)
  • Philippines
  • novembre 2008 à août 2010

Overall Work Purpose:
- Ensures the accuracy of all transactions recorded in the General Ledger specifically inventory on merchandise. Responsible for controlling and monitoring company's assets. Audits processes, system flow of the company by implementing control measures. Recommends process improvements.

Major Responsibilities:
- Conducts annual physical inventory count and validates discrepancies.
- Ensures that all stores are in compliance with the set policies and procedures. Inquire and report any recorded deviation.
- Checks the company's system flow and compliance of every department on the set SOP. Ensures that all control systems are in place.
- Controls and monitors company's assets by conducting a regular on-the-spot inventory in all locations. (Stores, warehouse and offices)
- Audits Petty Cash fund of other departments and Change Funds of stores by conducting on the spot count.
- Ensures the accurate, efficient and timely daily cycle count.
- Submits to Audit Manager any necessary adjustments after validating the inventory count. Initiates recounts for all stores with substantial disparities between checklist and actual count.
- Checks and audits process flow on company's Marketing program such as CLP (Customer Loyalty Program), Gift Certificate, E-load, issuance of OR, raffle, bundling and sampling activities in store.
- Recommends improvements and develop implementation plans for the approved changes.
- Verifies that all rented spaces such as billboards, ad box, end cap and COC are supported with contract.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Accountancy
  • à Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
  • mars 2008
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, High School Diploma
  • à Notre Dame of Greater Manila
  • mars 2004

Specialties & Skills

Internal Audit
Auditing
Customer Service
Data Quality
Leadership
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
GENERAL LEDGER
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Process Improvement
Customer Service
Training
Forecasting
Analytical Skills
Accounts Receivable
Lotus Notes
MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook
Accounting
Budgeting
Accounts Payable
PeopleSoft
Typing Skills
Administrative and Support Services
Payroll

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Filipino
Expert

Adhésions

Institute of Internal Auditors - Philippines
  • Member
  • October 2011

Formation et Diplômes

Leader Foundation Program (Formation)
Institut de formation:
IBM Training and Development
Date de la formation:
June 2014
Tools and Techniques for the Internal Audit Staff (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Institute of Internal Auditors
Date de la formation:
October 2011

Loisirs

  • Reading books
    I have read and collected John Grisham books
  • Cooking
    I like to cook and experiment different type of recipes. One of my accomplishments is that I get to cater my nephew and mom's birthdays.