Chief Financial Officer
US Department of Homeland Security, Arlington, VA, United States
Chief Financial Officer
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO), by statute, oversees the strategic development and maintenance of integrated budget, accounting, financial management, and internal controls capable of producing useful, reliable, and timely financial and program performance data. The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) reviews and approves the development, implementation, and maintenance of financial management systems in compliance with accounting principles, standards, and requirements for all CISA specific administrative and program areas. The office also establishes systems and procedures for controlling appropriated funds. The CFO oversees all aspects of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process. As part of the OCFO, this position is also responsible for program analysis and evaluation, financial operations and reporting, business process transformation, audit/internal controls and economic analysis for CISA and interfaces closely with all external stakeholders in DHS, other government agencies, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.
Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:
Exercising executive management authority that affects the strategic direction of financial and accounting programs.
Monitoring the financial execution of the agency's budget in relation to actual expenditures and preparing and submitting timely performance reports to the Director.
Providing executive level direction to staff heads in long- and short-term financial planning.
Conducting extensive evaluation of program goals and objectives and directing adjustments to ensure each complies with a rapidly changing and expanding agency mission.
Authorizing cost-saving initiatives to increase efficiency while reducing operating costs and maintaining high professional proficiency.
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO), by statute, oversees the strategic development and maintenance of integrated budget, accounting, financial management, and internal controls capable of producing useful, reliable, and timely financial and program performance data. The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) reviews and approves the development, implementation, and maintenance of financial management systems in compliance with accounting principles, standards, and requirements for all CISA specific administrative and program areas. The office also establishes systems and procedures for controlling appropriated funds. The CFO oversees all aspects of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process. As part of the OCFO, this position is also responsible for program analysis and evaluation, financial operations and reporting, business process transformation, audit/internal controls and economic analysis for CISA and interfaces closely with all external stakeholders in DHS, other government agencies, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.
Typical work assignments include, but are not limited to:
Exercising executive management authority that affects the strategic direction of financial and accounting programs.
Monitoring the financial execution of the agency's budget in relation to actual expenditures and preparing and submitting timely performance reports to the Director.
Providing executive level direction to staff heads in long- and short-term financial planning.
Conducting extensive evaluation of program goals and objectives and directing adjustments to ensure each complies with a rapidly changing and expanding agency mission.
Authorizing cost-saving initiatives to increase efficiency while reducing operating costs and maintaining high professional proficiency.