The Department of Finance (DOF) is requiring all permanent and designated provincial, city and municipal treasurers and assistant treasurers to take the Basic Competency for Local Treasurers Exam (BCLTE) to make sure they are qualified for their position.
The deadline for the registration to take the exam shall be on October 12 for municipal applicants, and on October 14 for provincial and city applicants.
Applicants are required to personally register at the Provincial Treasurer’s Office for municipal applicants, and at the Bureau of Local Government Finance Regional Office for provincial and city applicants.
The BCLTE and the accompanying Ethics-Oriented Personality Test shall be administered by the DOF and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) on December 6, at designated regional testing centers.
“The DOF, in cooperation with the CSC, aims to further professionalize and benchmark the competencies of local treasury officers in the spirit of good fiscal governance and local public financial management through a competency-assessment examination,” the DOF said in a Tax Watch public service announcement.
The exam is mandatory for all permanent and designated provincial, city and municipal treasurers and assistant treasurers. Other local employees, particularly from local treasury or accounting office, may also take the BCLTE as a qualifying examination, provided that they already meet the minimum requirements for treasurer or assistant-treasurer position as prescribed by the Local Government Code.
Local treasurers, who are under the administrative supervision of the secretary of finance, perform several functions aside from revenue collection, such as sitting as members in various local boards like bids and awards committees and local school boards.