The General Department of Financial and Administrative Affairs was established in 1402H following the split-up of UQU from King Abdul-Aziz University. 

The Financial Department is one of the crucial and executive departments of the Umm Al-Qura University (UQU). The Department carries out all financial transactions in accordance with established rules, regulations, circulars and decisions  governing the payment of salaries and dues of the university’s employees, as well as students’ rewards, dues of contractors and suppliers and advances. The department is also responsible for the settlement of custody and preparation of the final account at the end of the fiscal year based on the financial allocations to the university. To undertake its tasks, the department works tearlessly out of its responsibility for finalizing financial transactions and paying dues to their owners as fast as possible, besides using the latest technologies in carrying out financial transactions making use of its competent and well trained staff to meet the desires and directives of the top management to finalize work accurately and efficiently.