Pieter Philip van Bosse served as Minister of Finance five times.

The ministry has the duty to "guard the treasury and aim for a financially sound and prosperous state of the Netherlands.

The ministry's main office is located in the centre of The Hague at the Korte Voorhout.

The civil service is headed by a secretary general and a deputy secretary general, who head a system of four directorates general: It is also responsible for several decentralized services: A list of all companies (partially owned) by the Dutch government via the Ministry of Finance.

and Water Management and Climate Policy and Kingdom Relations and Climate Policy and Water Management and Climate Policy NLFI is the shareholder on behalf of the Dutch Government in the financial institutions that are state-owned as a result of the financial crisis.