The Senior Manager addresses issues impeding the auditability of the Army’s financial statements, as well as enhancing the FIP’s effectiveness as a management tool for guiding, monitoring, and reporting on the Army efforts to identify and resolve its financial management weaknesses and achieve financial statement auditability.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Determine a comprehensive and technical status of current financial improvement and audit readiness capabilities.
- Identify the conditions and issues preventing the Army from maintaining compliant and auditable financial records.
- Identify best practices for developing and maintaining compliant and auditable financial information.
- Identify, prioritize, and devise new or revised accounting policies and procedures and recommend implementation strategies to address impediments to a successful audit.
- Develop detailed audit readiness methodologies, policies, and guidance.
- Develop, improve, and assist in executing corrective actions.
- Provide program management support to manage the efforts under this contract; and
- Provide professional development support to Army field operations.