Douglas C. Edwards

Provided guidance to 17 Staff Offices within United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a spending plan in reference to an Internal Apportionment request valued over $7 billion dollars. Meet with multiple stakeholders, directors, and program managers within USDA monthly to discuss Status of Funds (SOF) along with projecting future financial forecasting for their programs that is valued over $650 million dollars. Executed over $133 million dollars in budget loads within the first 45 days at USDA. Funded over 94 million dollars in Interagency Agreement for reimbursable expenses between Agencies within USDA and outside of USDA. Coordinated, review and provide feedback for Congressional Budget Justifications for 31 different programs within USDA.

Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to support the integration of Army IT and Cyber requirements within related Management Decision Packages (MDEPs) and the supported Program Executive Group Integrator in support of the Planning, Programming and Budget Execution (PPBE) process. Analyze financial data to identify trends for evaluating effectiveness and efficiency of planning and programming efforts across multiple fiscal years. Brief HQDA G6 leadership on three-year $4.3 billion dollar Command Budget Estimate (CBE) along with HQDA Deputy Chief of Staff G6 portion of the defense budget for the President's Budget.

Supported the Assistant Secretary of the Army (ASA) Financial Management & Comptroller (FM&C) in understanding and identifying process risks and designing and assessing process controls to mitigate those risks. Documenting process controls, assessing control design, developing test plans to assess key controls, and drafting reports to summarize observations. Recommended changes in operational process to enhance separation of duties to meet the requirements of the OMB Circular A-123 and to correct any other deficiencies in internal control structure. Provide process improvement recommendations to design efficient and effective process controls to best mitigate process risks.

Appointed as Certifying Officer for Secure Payment System and International Treasury Services with over 2,595 certified payments totaling more than $139 million dollars in domestic and over $34 million dollars in foreign completed within a seven-month period. Use Momentum Software to approve over 1500 vendor invoices and contract actual payment claims totaling more than $72 million dollars within eight-month period, will maintaining 99% precision rate. Performed complex financial analysis to determine Undelivered Obligation Orders (UDO) which includes analyzing and reporting on open obligations, including De obligating obligations that was inactive for over one year, which resulted in recovering more than $35 million dollars from 27 different business units.

• 2019-07 to 2020-12 Chief of Internal Controls - El Paso, TX

Supervised auditing of establishments and determined scope of investigation required for over 15 junior auditors, to include developing internal control inspection plans; conducts inspections on monetary information systems to include military pay operations, disbursing operations, paying agent operations and e-commerce operations. Mentored employees in complex issue resolution and drafted scripts for addressing familiar challenges as well as utilizing the OMB Circular A- 123 to resolve challenges. Developed three inexperienced Disbursing Agents to disburse and properly account for over $75M worth of U.S And Afghani payments and collections with no losses of funds.

• 2018-07 to 2019-07 Deputy Finance & Accounting Officer - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Led team of 25 personnel with over 40 specialties to properly disburse 5,500 payments for contracts, foreign worker payroll, and travel vouchers worth more than $650M. Provided oversight for all five distinct functions for only joint finance office in Central Command (CENTCOM) area of operations. American Diplomat who served as banking liaison for Saudi American Bank, successfully negotiated mass payment transmittal of over $150M annual payments for vendors while eliminating manual expenditures of funds. Reduced physical cash in vault by 95% valued at $7M, through better currency purchase terms and forecasting that led to decreasing pecuniary liability.

• 2015-11 to 2018-07 Internal Control Manager - Kaiserslautern, Germany

Established technical oversight of management of combined cash verification of $114M comprised of U.S. Dollars and Euro currency. With the guidance of the OMB A-123, developed a new audit and compliance program called Personnel Readiness Review (PRR). Used hybrid methodology of face- to-face communication with 14 sub-organizations to collaborate during each review and retrospective to improve their timeliness on submitting military pay documents. The final deliverable resulted in end- users identifying non-value items, improving document procedures, and submitting forms on time by 80%, along with saving additional cost of $1.2M of delinquent payment fees.

• 2012-12 to 2015-11 Finance Manager- El Paso, TX

Provided Special Operations funds for over 15 Paying Agents, working with Resource Management in funding over $17M in multiple types of funds in support of Afghan National Security Forces Kandahar, Afghanistan. Increased sustainability and resiliency of 22 military deployed personnel and over twenty-five tons of equipment to hazardous combat areas in Afghanistan. Created their source calendars, including supply chain needs and risks registry oversight for each stakeholder's need. Project's release plan included high-level requirements for equipment, food, and supplies needed to support organizational networking for international shipment of essential resources worth $200K.

• 2008-04 to 2012-12 Senior Financial Management Analyst- Kaiserslautern, Germany

Managed more than $7.4M in Eagle Cash Equipment between 14 locations and ensured 100% accountability with no loss. Provide budget and execution advice, policy guidance, and resource issue resolution on the equitable, effective, and efficient management of Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) resources while deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Maintain appointment documentation for over twenty Field Ordering Officers and Paying Agents along with executing $5.5M in Army Operational Funds (OPFUNDS).