General Auditing Bureau headquarters.

:: The Training and Emission Committee for civil servants adopted the Saudi Center for Financial Auditing and Performance Monitoring at the General Auditing Bureau as an authority to provide training programs in financial auditing and performance monitoring and apply the training regulations on civil service employees.

The establishment of this center is part of the bureau’s initiatives to increase the efficiency of workers under its control, at the orders that stress the need for the General Auditing Bureau to follow up these bodies, provide an effective monitoring to protect the public money and direct its use and increase its revenue on the national public economy, and increase the efficiency and performance of all governmental bodies.

Bureau spokesman Saeed bin Saad Al-Qahtani said the center President Hussam bin Abdulmohsen Al-Angari will open on Tuesday, July 17 at the Bureau’s headquarters in Riyadh will be in line with the best international standards and practices.

The center will operate through the best qualified and experienced specialized trainers from the bureau. The staff will be well taken care of from the financial and auditing sides to increase their efficiency, build their professionalism and enrich their knowledge through the link with the training center specialized in its training environments and their electronic platforms that mimic the monitoring system.

Al-Gahtani added that establishing the center is part of the Bureau’s role to activate the monitoring role by training the workers of the governmental bodies and enriching their expertise and knowledge, in order to increase their efficiency. That will be done through the specialized training programs the center will provide according to the actual needs and requirements and international updates in the field.

Supervisor of the center Abdullah bin Ahmed Al-Thubait said it is one of the building blocks of the national achievements the bureau is seeking to establish. The center will contribute to developing the professional capacities of workers in the included authorities and increase their efficiency through the professional and specialized programs it provides.

He hoped the center would have a pioneering role in developing the financial auditing and performance control through its own cadres and will make a big change in their capacities and skills to achieve the center’s goals and the wise leadership’s aspirations.