Mission

 

To facilitate accountability by ensuring that resources are used in a healthy, effective and reliable manner in accordance with their nature within the framework of the duties and powers granted by laws, depending on economic and social conditions, and accounted in accordance with the basic concepts of accounting and accepted budget and accounting principles.

 

Vision

 

To be a unit that is open to technological developments, contemporary and scientific, accurate, reliable and impartial, transparent, that is responsible and has business discipline, committed to ethical values, open to change, self-sacrificing and compromising, accountable, complying with the principles of financial transparency, respectful to social values.

 

Duties and Responsibilities of the  Directorate of Financial Services:

 

• To coordinate the preparation of the strategic plan and performance program of the municipality and to carry out studies to reinforce the results,
• To prepare the Municipality budget, which includes the budget estimates of the following two years, in accordance with the strategic plan and annual performance program, and to monitor and evaluate the compliance of the municipality activities to these,
• To prepare a detailed expenditure program within the framework of the budget principles and procedures to be determined in accordance with the legislation,
• To keep budget records, to collect and evaluate data on budget implementation results and to prepare budget final account and financial statistics, to keep records regarding other financial transactions in a duly, transparent and accessible manner, to organize financial reports and statements independent of any intervention,
• To prepare the activity report of the municipality based on the unit activity reports prepared by the spending units,
• To prepare summary charts regarding the movables and immovables owned or used by the municipality,
• To coordinate the preparation of the investment program of the municipality, to monitor the implementation results and to prepare the annual investment evaluation report,
• To carry out and finalize the financial business and transactions of the municipality that need to be followed before other municipalities,
• To provide necessary information and to advise the Mayor and the spending authorities on the implementation of other legislation related to financial laws,
• To carry out financial preaudit activities,
• To work on the establishment of the internal control system, implementation and development of standards,
• To accrue municipal revenues within the framework of the relevant legislation, to carry out the follow-up and collection procedures of its revenues and receivables, to return the unwarranted and overcharged ones,
• To pay the expenses and debts to the beneficiaries,
• To receive, store and give or send to relevant persons the money and values and assets that can be expressed in money,
• To regularly submit the necessary information and reports to the spending authorities, the mayor and other authorized authorities, if any, within the periods specified in the accounting regulations,
• To control the tellers and warehouses within the periods stipulated in the relevant legislation,
• To keep the books, records and documents related to accounting services for the periods specified in the relevant legislation and to make them available for audit, to prepare financial reports and statements independent of any intervention,
• To audit the accounts, documents and transactions of the accounting officer trustees at the times stipulated in the relevant legislation or to request such audit from the unit director in the place where the accounting officer trustee is located,
• To perform other duties given by the Public Financial Management and Control Law No. 5018, Municipality Law No. 5393 and other legislation.