Education programmes of job
Nature of work
Internal control manager responsibilities mainly include:- Reviewing and ensuring compliance in organization's policies and procedures
- Preventing and detecting fraud and errors.
- Ensuring the compliance of accounting systems and financial reports and making sure that they are correct and real.
- Making regular and periodic audits to various activities, and preparing reports (exceptional, or periodic) including applicable recommendations and proposals.
- Evaluating performance of employees.
- Cooperating with external auditor to determine areas of external audit.
- Participating in costs reduces programs and establishing procedures of costs reduce.
- Sharing control plan before the beginning of the year and adopting it with organization management.
- Following-up and ensuring implementation of all decisions of organization management.
- Ensuring implementation of internal control procedures for all department of organization.
- After auditing, internal control manager makes sure that there is no missing in organization activities
- Reviewing errors that may be exist in operations
- Identifying weaknesses in internal control procedures.
Environment of work
The work environment of this profession can be summarized by the following:- Internal control manager works under general manager' supervision
- This profession requires official long work hours (with other departments)
- He/she may be required to work at the weekends.
- He/ she may be required to travel to achieve the goals of this profession such as ( preparation of accounts)
- This profession needs full-time work.
- This profession can be practiced by men or women.
- Practicing this career should be in office that is located close the head management
- This profession requires the ability to work in teams.
- Achieve positive working relations.
- This profession requires continuous to economic, financial and legal developments.
Professional life
If a candidate likes to apply for this position he/she should take into consideration the following points:- Internal control manager appointed by organization’s top management.
- Initial per month Salary is 20000 S.P
- Internal control manager has complete independence from other departments of organization.
- The manager may begin to work as a professional accountant or internal control official.
- Practicing this career for many years, gives a good development opportunity to work as financial manager or assistant manager
- He can obtain certificate of external auditor.
- He can establish a private work office that provides tax and accounting services.
Getting the job
If a candidate is considering applying for an internal control manager position, then he/ she should know the entry requirements like:- A candidate should get a bachelor degree from the faculty of economic (Banking and Finance sciences or Accounting or Business Administration department
- A student at the faculty of economic has to study various courses that related tobanking and finance sciences, accounting, or business administration.
- A candidate should have experience in cost accounting within organizations.
- He/she should have experience in accounting business within organizations
- He/she should have experience and knowledge in Syrian and international accounting Standards
- He/she should have experience and knowledge in legislation, laws and regulations
- He/she should have experience and knowledge in tax systems.
- He/she should have experience and knowledge in internal or external audit business for five years.
- Certificate in CIA
Internal control manager should have general skills as following:
- Good knowledge in job rules and conditions that are applied in the country
- Experience in implementing managerial science
- Strong mathematical abilities
- Decision-making skills.
- Experience in using computer
- An appropriate level of languages adopted by the organization.
Skills
Internal control manager should have personal skills that helps him/her in achieving the work:- Experience in designing of internal control systems.
- Experience in evaluating internal risks.
- Experience in planning and designing check lists and procedures.
- Experience in controlling of electronic systems.
- Experience in reviewing and auditing financial statements.
- Ability of managing time.
- Ability of analyzing and deducing conclusions.
- Ability to work within team.
- Ability to deal with modern techniques and methods.
- Ability to think creatively and mental agility.
- Ability to learn and develop himself.
- Ability to prepare reports.An appropriate level of foreign languages
Sources and references
- faculty of economic internal regulation- Aleppo University 2011
- Arab standard classification of occupations,
- Arab Labor Organization. http://www.alolabor.org/final/index.php