Financial secretary is an
administrative and
executive government position within the governance of a
state
State most commonly refers to:
* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
,
corporation
A corporation or body corporate is an individual or a group of people, such as an association or company, that has been authorized by the State (polity), state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as ...
,
private or
public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öf ...
organization
An organization or organisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences) is an legal entity, entity—such as ...
, small group or other body with financial assets.
A financial secretary oversees policy concerning the flow of financial resources like
money
Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are: m ...
in and out of an organization. The officer sometimes determines policy concerning the purchase or sale of goods and services, collection of dues and
employment
Employment is a relationship between two party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a cor ...
. The officer implements policy with the cooperation of other executives.
Financial secretary can also be the title of a cabinet member in a number of former and current British dependencies. This is the case in Hong Kong (see
Financial Secretary (Hong Kong)), Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Helena, etc. In the United Kingdom, the
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a mid-level ministerial post in HM Treasury. It is nominally the fifth most significant ministerial role within the Treasury after the first lord of the Treasury, the chancellor of the Exchequer, the ch ...
is a junior minister position but the office holder attends the meetings of the cabinet.
Bibliography
*SABINO, Rosimeri F.;ROCHA, Fabio G. Secretariado: do escriba ao web writer. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): Brasport, 2004.
* Revista Excelência. FENASSEC. Trimestral. Brazil.
Management occupations
Office and administrative support occupations
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