In constant evolution in line with the recommendations of third-party services and departments as well as the needs of the agents, the Ministry of Culture’s “public finances” training plan will take on a new momentum in 2027. On February 15, the Ministry of Culture issued a call for tenders on the “APProch” platform to renew its training market on public finances and public management control for its agents. This market is already being executed, and its renewal is expected to be published in December. Estimated between 100,000 and 500,000 euros, it will be valid for 4 years.
But what need is it trying to address? According to the ministry, “the main objective of the training is twofold.” It aims to offer “the most suitable offer possible to meet the needs of agents in this sector to strengthen their autonomy and professional expertise,” and to make this offer “as current as possible” based on ministerial and interministerial recommendations. “The professionalization of the financial function (P2F) led by the budget department may lead to an evolution in the training offer for management control in 2026,” the ministry further explains.
The training offer is aimed at all professionals in the ministry with missions and activities related to public finances, including agents in central administration, decentralized services such as regional directorates for cultural affairs (Drac), as well as officials from ministry operators regarding internal financial control and management training. “The training covers the necessity for ministry agents to master the budgetary and financial issues of central services, decentralized services, and services nationally,” details the Ministry of Culture. “It also concerns operator agents, key players in internal control and risk management.”
The scope of the market also covers the entire territory, “the Ministry’s General Secretariat being tasked with training all ministry agents based on priority ranks and competency specificities,” continues the ministry.
Concerning the thematic areas in the program, the various training actions are divided into 5 axes: budget execution, budget programming, subsidies, supervision exercise, and risk management and internal control exercise. These different aspects are then adapted according to the agents’ levels, from beginners to experts, passing through the “deepening” phase, based on their positions.
The training offer was developed by the professional training and skills development office within the ministry’s General Secretariat, with the support of the financial and general affairs department. Officials can benefit from sessions throughout the year, in-person, remotely synchronously or asynchronously, “taking into account the constraints related to the exercise of financial and budgetary functions such as the end of the budget management,” finally clarifies the ministry.
Restructuring following the creation of a financial management center
Recently, like the Court of Auditors, the central administration of the Ministry of Culture will undergo a restructuring operation with the creation of a financial management center. A decree published in the Official Journal on Wednesday, March 18, formalizes its establishment under the authority of the ministry’s budgetary and accounting controller. As a note from the Interministerial Directorate for Public Transformation (DITP) dated 2022 recalls, the deployment of financial management centers aims to “modernize, integrate, and streamline the spending chain by consolidating in a single financial management center (FGC) the tasks performed by shared service centers under the authorizing officer and invoicing services under the public accountant.” The operation concerns the quality accounting office within the sub-directorate of economic and financial affairs of the financial and general affairs department of the Ministry of Culture. This restructuring “entitles each job and function concerned to incentives and support mechanisms” such as accompanying indemnity for functional mobility, voluntary departure indemnity, accompanying indemnity, or “support for the development of their professional project and priority access to training actions.”
