Hosam Suliman: Associate Accountant/AP Lead in Torrance, CA
Hosam Suliman
Associate Accountant/AP Lead
Torrance | United States
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Providence St. Joseph Health
Associate Accountant/AP Lead | 08/2014 - Current
• Lead and oversee a team of 8 AP specialists and monitoring their productivity.
• Oversee, support and train offshore(outsource) AP team and evaluate their work weekly. I went to India 2 times to give training and oversee the go life day.
• Assist in supervising US based staff/consultants along with India team to drive daily deliverables.
• Assist with the prioritizing and communicating remote work for the India team on a weekly basis
• Working as member of Oracle cloud implementation team.
• Responsible for oversight and management of implementation, design and operations for revenue generating programs
• Reconcile Accounts Payable and perform internal audits as required by management
• Daily balancing of the GL Cash account
• Assist with the issuance of 1099 tax forms (and related activity) in compliance with federal and state tax reporting requirements
• Review and approve all daily positive pay items.
• Process all interface files, issue payment checks and ACH for urgent and special accounts
• Responsible for payment proposal review, audit and release of payments.
• Maintain recurring AP transactions on a monthly basis.
• Bank statement reconciliation by comparing statements with AP payment activity(identified $11 million posted to the wrong month)
• Work duplicate payments report to recover funds or credits memos(recovered over $2 Million)
• Responsible for month-end close, system to system reconciliations and intercompany GL account balancing
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center
Senior Accounts Payable Coordinator- Contractor | 02/2013 - 08/2014
• Enter high value invoices (Image Now invoices and EDI invoices) into Lawson accounting software(100-150 daily)
• Manage employee travel and business expense reports
• Verify accuracy, GL coding and authorization of invoices
• Reconcile accounts payable accounts
• Answer vendor inquiries
• Identify research and resolve invoice discrepancies
• Print and distribute checks/wires
• Void and correct lost, duplicate, or erroneous checks
• Enter and reconcile credit card payment transactions
• Assist with related special projects (audit, financial analyst requests, tax issues, EDI system implementation)
• Assist with the month-end close, identifying and recording accruals if necessary.
Memorial Hospital of Gardena
Senior Accounts Payable Clerk- Contractor | 12/2011 - 05/2012
• Process full cycle accounts payable including entering(150-200 daily), coding and batching invoices, AP processing, AP aging, and payment generation
• Ensure compliance and follow procedures with AP internal controls, policies and procedures
• Reconcile all invoices to the GL and audit invoices for appropriate documentation, approval and coding
• Review and process all Travel & Expense requests through inputting transaction into accounting system, processing either check or ACH payment and cataloguing payments in both electronic database and hard copy format
• Resolve AP issues with external vendors and internal personnel; investigate and resolve AP-related irregularities and/or queries
• Process all check disbursements, 1099 and tax related matters
• Assist with process improvement procedures or adjustments to existing systems
• Assist with special projects as needed
Torrance Memorial Medical Center
Senior Accounting Specialist Lead (AP/Payroll) | 05/2002 - 04/2011
• Lead AP staff of 7 in daily activities of payroll and accounts payable using Lawson system
• Responsible for oversight and management of implementation, design and operations for ePay programs(credit card payment to vendors)
• Responsible for the preparation and audit of all capitation accounting reports
• Provide significant financial data necessary for contractual relationship with major payers
• Process vendor invoices(100-150 daily), oversee and audit expense reports and audit employee timecards
• Responsible for payment proposal review and release of payments
• Prepare and process bi-weekly payrolls in a timely manner, review timesheets, reconcile differences and coordinate information relative to payroll processing
• Process confidential employee wage and benefit documents in order to generate payroll checks
• Track and prepare checks for various payroll deductions, such as Garnishment/Liens/Child support and Credit Union
• Prepares Month end AP closing reports/analyses.
• Responsible for issuance of 1099 tax forms for AP vendors and W-2 tax forms for employees.
Education history
Cairo University
B.A. | 1979 - 1983
New York University
| 1990 - 1991
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