Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial Systems

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Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial
Systems

• Presented byWendy E. Snow

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Mission
Provide executive leadership and management
vision to direct, implement, enhance, operate and
maintain corporate financial and other delegated
systems to USDA in support of USDA financial
management and administrative processes. Initiati
ves and Systems New investment, Financial
Management Modernization Initiative Presidents
Management Agenda egovernment program, eTravel
Corporate Financial System ( Foundation Financial
Information System)/ Financial Statements Data
Warehouse, Agency Financial Data Warehouses, Cash
Reconciliation System, Corporate Property
Automated Information System, Personal Property
System, Travel System, Purchase Order System,
Purchase Card Management System, Telephone
System, Utilities Vendor System, Equipment
Management Information System, Government
Transportation System, OPAC Tracking and
Reconciliation System, Energy Reporting,
Miscellaneous Income System, Federal Assistance
Award Data System, Customer Service System
HEAT.
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Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial
SystemsWe provide the automated tools

• Core Services Provided
• Software Development Life Cycle (Requirements,
  Design, Code, Test, Migration) for enhancements,
  changes, fixes in the corporate financial and
  administrative systems
• Quality Assurance, Independent Testing, User
  Acceptance Testing
• Configuration Management
• Cyber security compliance, including
  certification and accreditation of corporate
  financial and administrative systems
• System Renovations Processes (Feeder integration,
  retirement)
• New Release training
• Financial Statements Audit support services
• Data Base Administration
• Daily Operations and Maintenance
• 24 X 7 on-call services for USDA corporate
  financial and administrative systems
• Customer Service Center for corporate financial
  and administrative systems
• Investment Portfolio management for Corporate
  Financial Management Systems, Corporate Property
  Automated Information System, and the new
  Financial Management Modernization Initiative

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Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial
SystemsStrategies for Modernization

• FY2005 Focusing efforts on retirement of feeder
  systems to achieve reduction of stovepipe
  processes and to prepare USDA for the new
  Financial Management System
• Integrated RMA program data into FFIS, thus
  eliminating RMA financial statements production
  out of multiple sources
• Integrated Motorpool and Federal Telephone
  Systems Payments into FFIS, thus eliminating two
  feeder systems and providing enhanced
  streamlining and accuracy for these IPAC
  transactions
• Integrated Type 60 proceesing in FFIS, thus
  eliminating this funciton in PRCH so that PRCH
  can be retired
• Integrating FNS and FSA/CCC program data into the
  FSDW, which will result in a single source for
  financial statements and external reporting
• Implementing the eTravel PMA egovernment program
• Implementing the modernized FDWs, thus enhancing
  performance and reliability
• Implemented the 6653/4/5 processing into ACRWS
• Implemented real-time interface from IAS into
  FFIS
• Advance Financial Management Modernization
  Initiative into the Select Phase and finalize
  acquisition approach, including release of
  Request for Proposal

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Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial
SystemsStrategies for Modernization

• FY2006 Focusing efforts on retirement of feeder
  systems to achieve reduction of stovepipe
  processes and to prepare USDA for the new
  Financial Management System
• Implement Personal Property into the Corporate
  Property Automated Information System, thus
  eliminating two more feeders, PROP and EMIS, and
  providing a compliant, modern approach to the
  portfolio management of personal property
  throughout USDA production out of multiple
  sources
• Complete implementing the eTravel PMA egovernment
  program, which will replace one feeder system,
  GVTS and the TDY/Local travel in TRVL
• Evaluate Financial Management Modernization
  Initiative proposals, perform OCD/LTD and award
  contract
• Pilot relocation services through Center of
  Excellence provider, Bureau of Public Debt to
  evaluate this approach
• Review approach for other feeders which do not
  perform core financial processing and will not be
  used in the new Financial Management
  Modernization Initiative

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Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial
SystemsThe Organization which provides the Tools

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• Associate Chief Financial Officer for Financial
  Systems
• Located at Headquarters and in New Orleans, with
  a team of IT, customer service, and systems
  accounting expertise
• Three divisions
• Customer Service Division Kay Levy Director
• Corporate Mixed Systems Division, Jerry Chenault,
  Director
• Architecture and Policy Division, Richard Husak,
  Director