A single center for faster payments
Following a shared trial, an agreement was signed on December 19 between Métropole TPM and the direction départementale des Finances publiques.
The creation of this single invoice processing and payment service aims, beyond faster payment to companies, to make the expenditure circuit more reliable, control payment terms, consolidate budgetary and accounting quality, improve supplier relations, make the revenue circuit more reliable, simplify procedures for taxpayers, and improve recovery. At the scale of the département, TPM is the largest local authority to have set it up to date, and it is one of the most important at the national level. Composed of a mixed team of 29 employees from the Métropole and the Service de Gestion Comptable de Toulon, this service enables faster payment of company invoices and improves relations with users of metropolitan services by eliminating redundant controls. An invoicing service or "SFACT" is an innovative organization of the expenditure chain that pools the respective controls of the ordonnateur (TPM) and the comptable (État) to limit their redundancy. It is a single center for processing and paying invoices, managed by the public accountant, with its postal address at the Hôtel de la Métropole. It consists of a mixed team of 6 agents from the DGFIP and 23 agents from the Métropole TPM (each retaining their original status). It does not alter the ordonnateur/comptable separation in any way. •
THE SFACT TPM WILL PERFORM THE FOLLOWING REVENUE AND
EXPENDITURE ACTIVITIES:
Under expenditure: the reception, sorting, redirection, digitization, and archiving of invoices and related mail from suppliers, issued on any medium (paper or electronic), as well as the management of relations with suppliers concerning invoicing and payment term issues; the control, prior to the expenditure, of the correct recording in the procurement information system by the managing departments, of their completeness and regularity; the control of the proof of service completed by the managing departments; the control of supporting documents for expenditure as provided for in Decree No. 2012-1246 of November 7, 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management and its implementing decrees; the validation of the choice of third-party creditor and the bank details for payment; the creation, assumption of responsibility, and payment of payment orders; the management of relations with the managing departments of the Métropole benefiting from SFACT services. Under revenue: multi-site reception of debtors, ensuring the reliability of user data, issuing invoices, recording invoices.