Internal Auditor & Quality Officer
ALWASSEL Corporation Affiliated Company of SYRIATEL
Total years of experience :10 years, 4 Months
Duties:
- Provide assurance of compliance with statutory requirements, policies, standards, procedures, and applicable laws and regulations.
- Verify if the resources are acquired economically, used efficiently, and adequately protected (safeguarded).
- Execute strategic Internal Audit Activity, monitoring compliance, preparing and presenting audit findings and recommendations, especially with respect to implementing the GAFS General Accounting & Financial System.
- Ensure that significant legislative or regulatory issues that impacting the organization are recognized and addressed appropriately.
- Verify if the programs, plans, and objectives are achieved.
- Foster quality and continuous improvement in the organizations’ control process.
- Analyze, model and design business processes and all Quality Management System (QMS) documentations, provide advice of QMS as needed.
- Conduct Quality orientation/ training to all new recruits within the Audit & Quality Dept.
- Receive and review docs. from Quality Coordinators/ ambassadors in all depts. and follow up with uppers for Audit & Quality issues.
- Official Coordinator with all External Auditors, Consultants, and Advisors.
Achievements &Additional Roles:
- Committee member of establishing General Accounting & Financial System (GAFS) of the Corporation.
- Inventory Committee member as periodic and accidental process, for stock, fixed assets, cash.
- Participate in establishing the company QMS, with all its procedures, processes, OJT, Lists, .. etc. and QMS manual for the Audit & Quality new Dept.
Job Title: Office Manager of MD’s (GM & Chairman).
Duties:
- Maintain the Operating Company’s OFFICIAL SEALS as well as its registration documents,
- Check all correspondences and invoices subject to be signed by MD's, and provide resolutions or suggestions regarding problems arising from incomplete records or documentations.
- Responsible for confidential post office, memos, and resolutions of Top Management.
- Produce timely accurate schedules, letters, and reports as needed.
- Assist other departments, sections, and units to set their objectives, work schedules, budgets, policies, and procedures as approved by BOD and MD’s.
- Day-to-day smooth running of the top management office, including its administrative support, and staff coaching, problems-solving orientation etc. in addition to developing its performance in autonomous manner.
- Responsible for all ad-hoc requirements / duties requested by top managements.
- Handling all personal confidential expenses, documentations, reimbursements, payments of MD’s.
- Prioritize work effectively.
- Perform daily morning operational meeting according to management’s requirements, and then provide feedback accordingly.
- Arrange all channels of communication between Shareholders, BOD, MD’s, Managers, and staff; as appropriate.
Job Title: Executive Secretary for Management Board of Directors and Shareholders.
Duties:
- Responsible for the company’s shareholders and board profiles, call for meetings.
- Prepare and coordinate the agenda, planning worksheet, invitations, MOM, and resolutions; then evaluate and follow up any required action to be taken.
- Attend all meetings of BOD, and shareholders inside and abroad Syria; and follow up all logistic issues related to Board Members & Shareholders, national & foreign parties, like reimbursements, visas issuance, vehicles, travel missions, hotel accommodations, ...etc.
Achievements &Additional Roles:
- Committee Member of establishing all policies of the Operating Company (HPC) including: By-Laws, Procurement & Contracting Policy, Financial & Accounting General Policy, Personnel Policy Manual (PPM), and Organization Chart.
- Budget Committee member: Work Program WP and budget annual preparations and issuance, approval process, amendment and transfer, using budget funds, and annual deviation report.
- Conduct specific assurance audit engagements such as: due diligence, security, privacy, performance and compliance audit engagements.
- Conduct consulting audit engagements such as: internal control, quality assessment, business process review, benchmarking, IT and system development. Then monitor and communicate the outcomes.
- The Official Coordinator with external auditors, regulatory oversight bodies, governmental auditors.
- Following up all required annual bank confirmations, and reconciliations,
- Assesses the performance of organizational units to ascertain whether defined objectives have been achieved and whether those objectives were achieved efficiently;
- Survey policies, procedures, authorizations on regular basis and obtain any modifications from bodies' liaison.
- Assess organization’s reporting mechanism (procurement cycle, payment of invoices…etc.).
• 2009: Diploma Smart Human Resources Management issued by LTC (Life Long Training Centre) Syria.
• 2009: Diploma Human Resources Management issued by JEG (Joint Efforts Group) Jordan.
• 2007: Workshop titled "Presentation Skills" at the Lebanese American University, Beirut.
• 2007: CIA (Certified Internal Auditor), owned by IIA (Institute of Internal Auditors) via PRC (Powers Resources Corporation) in PDI Center in Damascus-Syria. Major studies (attendance certificate as yet) ; - Part I: Internal Audit Activity's, Role in Governance, Risk, and Control. - Part II: Conducting the Internal Audit Engagements. - Part III: Business Analysis & Information Technology. - Part IV: Business Management Skills.
• 2007: Certificate in Book - Keeping issued by London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) international qualifications, 2007.
• 2001: Master Degree, University of Damascus, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, English Language and Literature Department since 2001.