Connecting professional applications: A new step in modernizing the State Treasury

Professional activities at Moc Chau State Treasury, Son La. Photo: Thuy Linh

Improve labor productivity of Treasury staff

Since November 15, the State Treasury (State Treasury) officially implemented the connection of Online Public Services - TABMIS (Treasury and Budget Management Information System) - Electronic bilateral payments.

This is the integration and connection between professional processes and online public service programs to better meet the requirements of reform and modernization of the State Treasury. Thereby, business processes, as well as productivity and quality, are improved and strictly controlled with the goal of automating the maximum processing steps on applications, facilitating users, transaction units and the State Treasury.

According to the State Treasury, the connection of business applications will help the system operate stably and smoothly, meeting the needs of budget users. The inter-process will automatically maximum steps and standardize the budget user data in making and controlling records and documents on the system.

Accordingly, as soon as the recurrent expenditure documents which are transferred to the State Treasury on public services to make bilateral payments with commercial banks are received and initially processed, the accountants and leaders of the Treasury unit sign for approval on the online public service program. Then, documents are automatically linked to the TABMIS interface, electronic bilateral payment and automatically transferred to commercial banks without any manual processing.

According to Mr. Le Hong Thanh, Director of Hoa Binh State Treasury, thanks to the connection of these three systems, accountants no longer have to manually enter data from the online public service system to TABMIS, which will save a lot of time and effort and also help avoid numerical errors when entering data manually. At the same time, it is ensured that expenditures are strictly controlled to avoid risks.

“As a result, thanks to this time-saving process, Treasury officials can focus on other transactions as well as spend time learning and researching more about the profession, especially at the end of the year when the number of documents and records rise," said Mr. Le Hong Thanh.

Increase efficiency of information technology application

In order to fully meet development requirements in the context of strong modernization reform and proactive integration, the State Treasury always studies to timely approach technological solutions as required by the next stage of development. In addition, the State Treasury has urgently implemented modernization according to the roadmap on the basis of information technology application.

As time goes by, the effectiveness and practicality of large-scale implementation of the service inter-service process of online public service applications - TABMIS - Electronic bilateral payment have been approved.

The inter-connected process not only satisfies budget users but is an important step in the process of forming the Electronic Treasury and Digital Treasury. At the same time, it also updates and provides timely and accurate budget revenue and expenditure data via the State Treasury, enabling the Government and the Ministry of Finance to access the latest information to serve the direction and administration in economic and social development.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the application of information technology in professional activities of the State Treasury has promptly responded and better served the spending needs of budget-using units, enhanced access and interoperability of service information. At the same time, the efficiency of job processing via online public services is also upgraded and the connection with other information technology application systems is expanded in order to better meet the requirements of reform and modernization of the State Treasury system.