- Preparation of annual draft financial estimates and receiving financial provisions.
- Payment of salaries of academic and non academic staff.
- Payment of over time allowances, travelling allowances and other allowances.
- Providing grants to private schools and Pirivena.
- Affairs related to payment of different programmes and workshops.
- Maintenance, control and monitoring accounts.
- Management and control of financial resources.
- Payment of scholarship and related affairs.
- Payment of water, electricity,assessment tax and telephone bills.
- Acting as per F.R. 104 (3) on damages and losses on goods, doing initial investigations and report all these damages through appropriation account.
- Affairs related to procurement process.
- Conducting board of survey in schools, balancing goods and giving recommendations for removal.
- Making payments for constructions and repairs of school buildings.
- Reporting financial progress on all payments.
- Systematically paying and balancing the advance and loans of officers and maintenance of control accounts and related affairs.
- Prepare and settle annual final accounts.
- Comparing General Deposit Accounts and maintenance of control accounts.
- Obtaining and supervision of updated accounts records of schools and educational institutions.
- Maintain financial discipline and transparency in office and schools and implement required measures to minimize audit errors.
- Payment of gratuity given on retirement.
- Affairs related to maintenance of bank accounts and prepare monthly bank reconciliations.
- Affairs related to stores and stock control.
- Report irregularities and frauds on management of resources and commence disciplinary actions relevant to those.
- Internally evaluate the affairs of the Finance Division.
- Other duties entrusted as appropriate by the Zonal Director.