Duties and responsibilities of assistant accounts officer in finance jk

 

Duties and Responsibilities of Accounts Officers in the offices of Deputy Commissioners/ District Development Commissioners. 

Consequent upon the posting of Accounts officers in the offices of Deputy Commissioners/ District Development Commissioners hereby accorded to the delegation of duties and responsibilities to the Accounts Officers posted to the offices of the Deputy Commissioners/ District / District Development Commissioners, as shown below:

The Accounts Officers posted in the Deputy Commissioner's offices shall act as the Drawing and Disbursing officers in terms of Government order  issued by the Finance Department and shall operate upon all the funds administered by the Deputy Commissioners/ District Development Commissioners in the Districts.

The Accounts Officer shall act as custodian of all records related to accounts or any other record having financial implications implicitly or explicitly. The Service books of all the employees shall also remain in the custody of Accounts Officer, as prescribed in the J&K, CSRs.

All the service related matters including leave settlement/admissibility cases shall be routed through Accounts officer to the Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner.

The Accounts Officer shall Compile Budget Estimates under Revenue Component and shall release all funds under both Capital and Revenue components in terms of Government Order, with the approval of the Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner concerned.

 All the matters wherein financial implication is involved shall be routed through Accounts Officer to Deputy Commissioner /District Development Commissioner and sanction to all financial matters shall be consented by the Accounts officer prior to approval from Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner.

The Accounts officer shall be the Member Secretary of all Purchase/ Contract Committees headed by Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner.

All the funds like SDRF, Land Compensation, Relief, Election, Community Development, Land acquisition, Miscellaneous Funds etc placed at the Disposal of Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner apart from normal budget shall be operated upon by Accounts Officer.

The Accounts Officers posted in the Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner offices shall act as Financial Adviser to Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner and provide technical guidance in all cases having financial implications..

The Accounts Officer posted in the Deputy Commissioner/ District Development Commissioner's office shall be the Nodal Officer for BEAMS/PFMS/DBT in terms of the prevailing orders issued by the Finance Department and all the funds shall be released through these IT enabled applications by the Accounts Officers as mandated in the Appropriation Act, 2018 and the Appropriation Act, 2019. He shall also monitor the expenditure against releases.

The Accounts officer shall be responsible for reconciliation of receipt/ expenditure figures and clearance of Audit Inspection Reports etc.