"TO CREATE A QUALITY AND SATISFYING SCHOOL SYSTEM THROUGH PROVIDING OPTIMAL SERVICE IN FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT."

Our Services

• Providing the necessary information to the head office for the preparation of annual financial estimates.
• Payment of salaries to nearly five thousand academic and non-academic staff of the Zonal Education Office, the three divisional offices of Horana, Bulathsinhala and Bandaragama and Provincial Councils and National Schools.
• Uploading the Agrahara Insurance contributions deducted from the monthly salary to the website of the National Insurance Trust Fund.
• Preparation and payment of arrears of salaries.
• Issuance of non-requests of retiring officers.
• Issuance of cash reports to be collected.
• Confirmation of the balance of salaries required to be given to the bank for obtaining loans.
• Confirmation of the bank account of Agrahara applications.
• Preparation of unpaid leave report and sending it to the head office.
• Prepare and send the widows and orphans pension report to the head office.
• Mail the correction checks collected from the salaries of the officers to the relevant institutions.
• Issuance of the final salary details of the transferred officers and the salary details paid.
• Provide advances for development programs as per the annual action plan and make other payments related to those programs.
• Carry out procurement activities under the Regional Procurement Committee limits as per the annual procurement plan.
• Carry out procurement activities to procure stationery and other goods and services required by the institution.
• Issue checks to schools in relation to the provisions and vouchers received by provincial schools through World Bank assistance.
• To provide advances for programs carried out with the allocations received by national schools through World Bank assistance and to make other payments related to those programs.
• To reimburse electricity bills and telephone bills of provincial and national schools.
• To pay overtime and railway bills of school guards.
• To pay bursaries.
• To make school nutrition payments.
• To make payments for office water, electricity and telephone bills, service contracts, maintenance expenses, diploma half-payments, travel expenses, overtime allowances, teacher mentor allowances, mentor allowances related to informal programs, assessments, etc.
• To maintain up-to-date accounting records such as the cash book, expenditure ledger, deposit ledger, advance payment register, member loan records, etc. in relation to all receipts and payments.
• To carry out commodity surveys, embezzlement and follow-up activities in provincial and national schools.
• Preparing monthly staff reports.
• Performing Sarap duties.
• Making and collecting payments of disaster loans, festive advances and special advances within the limits of the advance accounts and reporting such transactions and preparing the year-end account.
• Preparing monthly account summaries through the CIGAS program accounting for provincial and central receipts, payments and all non-financial assets and sending them to the Provincial Education Department.
• Entering information related to central government payments into the Integrated Treasury Management Operating System (ITMIS) and making payments through the ITMIS program after the money is released from the treasury and reporting receipts through that program.
• Preparing bank reconciliations related to provincial and central bank accounts and carrying out related follow-up work.
• Calculation, collection, remittance and reporting of payroll taxes in relation to the relevant allowances for the calculation of salaries and taxes
• Submission of reports on the collection of widows, orphans and pension contributions of all transferred and retired officers to the personal file.
• Accounting for the collection of pension gratuity to the government.
• Dealing with damages and losses in schools.
• Providing information to the head office for the preparation of the annual appropriation account.
• Remittance of stamp duty collected for payments exceeding Rs. 25000.00 to the Inland Revenue Department.
• Responding to audit queries.
• Maintaining the office store.
• Maintaining internal control for the functions of the finance department.