Treasury trains 5,000 on e-finance system

The National Treasury has stepped efforts to speed up adoption of its online public finance management system by training users in both national and county governments.

The Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) developed to automate and streamline government revenue has been rolled out to all public offices, including ministries, departments, agencies (MDAs) and counties.

Through the IFMIS Academy at the Kenya School of Government, Treasury has trained over 5,000 users. IMFIS director Jerome Ochieng says the academy was created to ensure users are well equipped with skills needed to use the online platform, adding that training will continue until all users are brought up to speed.

“Continuous sensitisation and training within the counties in using the system has seen users embrace the change from the manual system of operation to the automatic system that encompasses several modules that cover financial processes,” he said.

Ochieng said budget officers, the Accountant-General and Auditor-General have access to financial transactions and reports from the integrated system, which increases transparency. The system will enable expenditure control and follow-up of the national and county governments’ transactions.

In addressing public procurement, the integrated system provides the item master that ensures market survey for common user items and prices them for use in procurement planning and requisition, in turn standardising the utilisation of items within all State offices.