Financial Management

We support multiple U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) entities in achieving their financial transparency and audit readiness, remediation, and sustainment goals within accelerated time frames. As a trusted business partner, we assist in a range of successful financial initiatives, including budget generation and execution, supporting enterprise-level federal accounting and payroll systems, performing financial reconciliations of financial statements and reports, testing internal controls, and tracking and recording financial activities for executive-level management.

Audit Readiness, Remediation, and Sustainment Support

With expertise in supporting Federal Government Comptrollers and Chief Financial Officers, we prepare audit-ready financial statements for enterprise programs. Our clients rely on us to provide industry-compliant financial support and expert guidance on performing financial reconciliations, testing internal controls, and developing corrective actions in response to issuances of Notice of Finding and Recommendation (NFR).

We support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in their audit readiness and sustainment efforts. Our work has contributed to DARPA being recognized as a leader in financial improvement and internal controls, and one of the first agencies deemed audit ready by an independent auditor.
We helped improve the Triannual Review (TAR) process at the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA). This process was recognized as a best practice and led to DMEA (with CSCI assistance) providing training to over five hundred (500) financial professionals from twenty-two (22) defense agencies to standardize the TAR process across the DoD.
Our associates are considered subject matter experts in effective financial management and have fielded multiple requests from agencies to conduct cross-training on best practices.

End-to-End Financial Operations Support

Through our comprehensive understanding of all facets of financial analysis within Federal financial systems, we help agencies improve their financial details and application in business processes:

Data Mining
Budget Formulation and Execution
Financial Forecasting, Execution, and Analysis
Financial Tracking and Monitoring

Risk Management

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): A successful ERM framework enables entities to align their missions with the organizations’ risk management structure, including the relationships between their objectives, risks, internal controls, compliance activities, and oversight functions. We use a top-down approach to risk management by establishing a risk governance structure, processes for considering risk appetite and tolerance levels, methodology for developing a risk profile, and plans for maturing the risk profile over time.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): We have partnered with RSA to provide our customers with an integrated approach to audit management, operational risk management, and IT and security risk management (among others) using a single, configurable platform applicable across the enterprise. Each solution area is supported by purpose-built use cases, providing out-of-the-box best practices to kick-start an effective GRC program that can expand incrementally as risk and compliance needs evolve.

Managers’ Internal Control Program (MICP): The MICP guides the review, assessment, and reporting of internal control effectiveness for the DoD. We support many agencies with development of their comprehensive MICP strategy and applying sustainable, repeatable processes to design, implement, monitor, and report on internal controls at every entity level.

Additional services include, but not limited to:

Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Execution (PPBE)
Cost Management and Analysis
Existence and Completeness (E&C) for Property, Plant, and Equipment (PP&E)