Finance Department

Internal Controls

The mission of the Internal Controls Group is to provide Finance and other City departments objective resources, guidance, and recommendations to improve the City’s financial operations and safeguard the City’s assets. The group works toward improving operational efficiency, enhancing internal controls, and ensuring compliance with applicable local, state, and federal laws, regulations, and policies & procedures. The group’s efforts will assist the City’s administration and management in improving operations, business processes, and Governance, Risks and Controls (GRC).

The Internal Controls Group, with the help of professional consulting firm(s), has previously conducted a Citywide Enterprise Risk Management process with the goal of improving citywide business processes. The project entailed the following tasks:

  • Enterprise Risk Assessment (ERA)
  • Internal Controls Reviews
  • Control Self-Assessment (CSA)
  • Review of Accounting and Financial Policies & Processes
  • Training and Development of City employees