About the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)

What We Do

• Biography
• Email: ocfoinfo@epa.gov
• Mail code: 2710A | EPA mailing addresses

• Biography
• Email: ocfoinfo@epa.gov
• Mail code: 2710A | EPA mailing addresses

• Phone: (202) 564-1152
• Email: ocfoinfo@epa.gov
• Mail code: 2710A | EPA mailing addresses

• Office of Budget
• Office of the Controller
• Office of Management
• Office of Planning and Performance
• Office of Technology Solutions

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Office of Budget (OB)

What We Do

• EPA’s central budget office;
• Budget and resource planning, analysis and decision-making support at the national agency level;
• Budget-related communication and coordination;
• Budget formulation, budget execution and operating plan planning, guidance development, policy coordination, options preparation, systems planning, process management and integration of goals-based decision-making (with OPP);
• Budget and resource tracking, review, utilization monitoring and analysis;
• Budget information request coordination, preparation and analysis from internal and external stakeholders, including OMB, Congressional Appropriators, and agency senior management;
• Proposed policies and legislation budget analysis;
• Anti-deficiency Act coordination and policy development; and,
• Budget and related issues coordination with agency program and regional offices.
• Learn about EPA’s budget

Mail code: 2732A | EPA mailing addresses
Location: EPA Headquarters at Washington, D.C. Federal Triangle campus

Office of Budget Leadership

• Phone: (202) 564-6394
• Email: robinson.angel@epa.gov

• Phone: (202) 564-8503
• Email: boyd.wyatt@epa.gov

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Office of the Controller (OC)

What We Do

• Develops, manages, and supports the agency’s federal financial management programs by interpreting fiscal legislation, maintaining fiscal operations and financial systems, and implementing government-wide external reporting reforms;
• Establishes the priorities, policy, guidance and strategy for the agency’s financial management community;
• Manages and provides liaison coordination for the agency’s Management Representations Audits Letters between the OC and program offices;
• Provides financial information to agency program managers and leadership in support of day-to-day decisions and environmental results;
• Provides a full range of national, local and specialized accounting, financial and customer services through the agency’s two Finance Centers located in Cincinnati and Research Triangle Park;
• Leads and manages the agency’s Management Integrity program, including A-123 internal control system process. Also serves as OCFO’s audit liaison and coordinates audit activities;
• Provides relocation services to EPA and other federal entities;
• Leads the agency’s payroll coding and PCA effort;
• Promulgates Policy and SOP’s on disaster charging and travel in the event of an emergency;
• Manages the accounting string for the agency to ensure the nomenclature and standards are consistent across the agency;
• As necessary, provides expert technical assistance in cost accounting and program accounting issues for legal and enforcement proceedings including testimony at trials, depositions, affidavits, regulation writing, and other forms of assistance to legal staff; and
• Oversees financial management of the Working Capital Fund and coordinates WCF Board activities.
• View EPA's financial statements
• Financial services and support
• Federal Employee Relocation Center

Mail code: 2733R | EPA mailing addresses
Location: EPA Headquarters at Washington, D.C. Federal Triangle campus

OC Leadership

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Office of Management (OM)

What We Do

• Provides OCFO central budget and financial management, continuous improvement, emergency preparedness, human resources management, human capital and strategic workforce planning, information management and technology, organizational analyses and development, and administrative operations;
• Responsible for OCFO’s central administrative, management and stewardship functions, such as implementation of FMFIA, extramural management and oversight, information security, and privacy; and
• Supports OCFO as the National Program Manager for EPA’s budget, financial, and performance management and coordinates within OCFO and EPA and with other Federal agencies on cross-cutting budget, financial, and performance management matters.

OM Leadership

• Phone: (202) 566-0985
• Email: soward.ruth-alene@epa.gov

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Office of Planning and Performance (OP2)

What We Do

• Leads the development and implementation of EPA’s strategic planning and performance management framework establishing long-term goals, objectives, and strategies that serve as the basis for annual planning and budgeting and use data and evidence to continually improve performance, and program efficiency and effectiveness;
• Manages the development and reporting of agency performance measures cascading from the Strategic Plan and Budget through process level and operational performance measures;
• Manages and implements agency-wide annual performance assessment of progress in achieving annual and long-term performance goals and prepares the Annual Performance Report as part of EPA’s Budget;
• Manages the development and implementation of EPA’s enterprise risk management program, including senior leaders’ strategic reviews of progress towards objectives in EPA’s Strategic Plan and assessments and identification of significant and enterprise risks and progress in mitigating the risks;
• Under the leadership of the EPA Evaluation Officer, and in coordination with the other designated officials in the Evidence Act, develops policy and procedures for the Agency to use evaluation, data, statistics, analysis, and research to inform agency planning and budgeting decisions, policymaking, regulations, and day-to-day operations;
• Leads the Agency’s continuous improvement program, as championed by the Agency’s continuous improvement official, to set policy, procedures, and guidance to support programs and regions in the development of process improvements and improvement projects, ideation and problem-solving;
• Partners externally, with States, Tribes, and other partners to accomplish shared objectives of protecting human health and the environment through the use of data and evidence, performance management, and continuous improvement; and
• Leads implementation of the Program Management Improvement Accountability Act (PMIAA) by partnering with the Office of Mission Support and coordinating with Headquarters and Regional Offices to improve program and project management skills and competencies of the Agency workforce and supporting program quality portfolio reviews.

Programs / Projects / Products

• Continuous Improvement Program
• E-Enterprise for the Environment
• Financial and Performance Reports
• National Program Guidance
• Strategic Plans

Mail code: 2721A | EPA mailing addresses
Location: EPA Headquarters at Washington, D.C. Federal Triangle campus

OP2 Leadership

• Phone: (202) 564-1987
• Email: martiyan.stefan@epa.gov

• Phone: (202) 564-3020
• Email: hall.johnm@epa.gov

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Office of Technology Solutions (OTS)

What We Do

• Has primary responsibility for information technology planning, standard setting, and development and deployment of agency and OCFO financial and resource management systems. This includes:
  • Managing the development and implementation of agencywide and OCFO financial systems and information management policies to support the achievement of EPA’s environmental mission;
  • Conducting program analysis and implementing a strategic approach to agency-level technology investment planning; and
  • Formulating budgets and allocating resources for financial systems.
• Manages the OCFO information systems modernization program through a portfolio of agencywide and OCFO financial system projects;
• Leads the strategic planning, development, integration, and implementation of new financial systems for OCFO;
• Ensures that new information technology investments support the agencywide enterprise architecture and comply with OCFO, Federal, and agency-level information systems policies;
• Allocates and monitors resources to provide management, operational support, and maintenance over agencywide and OCFO financial systems and information technology assets;
• Implements processes to ensure compliance with OCFO, agency, and Federal information security requirements;
• Supports the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer as liaison to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), other Federal agencies, and external entities on matters related to the agencywide and OCFO financial systems;
• Identifies and provides innovative strategies and approaches in communications and outreach to internal and external sources;
• Builds agency-wide coalitions around systems projects and investments through collaboration with agency and OCFO information systems governance boards and committees;
• Provides effective organizational management through the alignment of staffing, budgetary, and resource plans with the objectives of the organization;
• Engenders an environment that fosters creativity and innovation in the development of information systems to support the strategic goals of the agency and OCFO;

Mail code: 2731A | EPA mailing addresses
Location: EPA Headquarters at Washington, D.C. Federal Triangle campus

OTS Leadership

• Phone: (202) 564-4785
• Email: david.derek@epa.gov