Project Manager Accounting

Summary of Qualifications

Ms. Crippen has progressed into several different management positions throughout the course of her career. As a CGFM, Ms. Crippen brings strong leadership capabilities and vast experience in Federal audit readiness, audit remediation, corrective action plan development, implementation, and monitoring, and business process narratives. She also has extensive knowledge and management experience in accounting operations, US Standard General Ledger analysis and reconciliation, financial statement preparation, Government-wide Financial Reporting System (GFRS) submissions, CFO Act of 1990, Prompt Payment Act, Improper Payments Information Act, Improper Payment Elimination and Recovery Act (IPERA) and OMB Circulars A-11, A-123, A-133 and A-136

Relevant Experience

TFC Consulting, Inc., Manager, 05/2013 Present

Small Business Administration; 04/2016 – Present

Ms. Crippen serves as the Project Manager and leads a team that is responsible for developing and/or updating process narratives and test plans, executing test plans and developing conclusions and recommendations for management consideration and implementation.

Corporation for National and Community Service; 06/2016 – 10/2016

Ms. Crippen was the Project Manager for this engagement. She oversaw a team that provided assessment support services in accordance with OMB Circular A-123 as it related to Grants Management and grants-related information technology systems. Ms. Crippen’s team provided expertise in grants management and IT systems by developing process documentation, creating risk and control matrices, and preparing test plans for the agency to utilize as it matured its internal control program.

Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA); 05/2013 10/2016

Ms. Crippen served as the Project Manager and led a team that was responsible for liaising with SAMHSA and HHS – Program Support Center (PSC) staff to obtain an understanding of key business processes in order to revise business process narratives for: Procure to Pay (purchase card, contracts, and simplified acquisitions); Reimbursable activities; Budget Execution & Monitoring; and, Grants Management. Ms. Crippen ensured that controls were in place to validate the accuracy of financial reporting and oversees the testing of each of the four business process by selecting samples, obtaining supporting documentation, and concluding whether exceptions exist. Ms. Crippen developed and reviewed recommendations for remediation when exceptions were noted and ensured that corresponding changes to business process narratives were also noted when required. Ms. Crippen also assisted with preparing the OPDIV’s interim and final annual assurance statements in accordance with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA). Additionally, Ms. Crippen was responsible for developing issue papers related to Appropriations Law and federal financial reporting issues.

Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Stability; 06/2013 – 10/2016

Ms. Crippen performed quality assurance reviews of the testing results from the assessment of internal controls within the Credit Reform, Investments, Budget Execution and Monitoring, Liabilities and Disbursements, Revenue, Receipts and Collections, Financial Close, Financial Statement Preparation, and Laws and Regulations business processes. Ms. Crippen also developed and reviewed for improvement in design or operation of internal control when exceptions were noted and ensured that corresponding changes to cycle memoranda were noted when required.

Department of Agriculture, Credit Commodity Corporation (CCC); 01/2015 06/2016

Ms. Crippen serves as the primary point of contact and audit liaison between CCC and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and provides a full range of financial support services necessary for the CCC to comply with the Chief Financial Officers Act (CFO Act) of 1990 and its implementation direction. Specific duties include: ensuring that USAID procedures related to the accounting for CCC funds are operating properly; ensuring that accounting issues are directed to appropriate USAID personnel and that appropriate USAID personnel participate in problem resolution; ensuring that General Ledger balances are reconciled to financial system balances; performs “tie point” analysis and other types of analysis to assure general ledger correctness; assisting CCC staff in addressing audit findings and recommendations and ensuring that USAID personnel respond as may be necessary; preparing Corrective Action Plans for USAID related accounting issues to resolve audit recommendations; meeting regularly with CCC and USAID management in order to come to an understanding of concerns about USAID accounting for CCC funds and informs appropriate parties of accounting issues as they arise and reports progress in resolving the issues; and researching and explaining variances and abnormal balances on a monthly basis.

Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Financial Officer; 06/2013 – 04/2014

Ms. Crippen performs quality assurance reviews of compliance, performance, and statistical sampling of internal controls over operations for DHS headquarters and Components. Specifically, Ms. Crippen assists with documenting risk matrices for the various DHS business processes; mitigates risks by creating new and/or updated audit plans which reflect new DHS policies and/or best practices from other government entities; and, reviews government charge card reports from JP Morgan's PaymentNet and Visa IntelliLink to perform detailed analysis of transactions and identify potential instances of misuse and/or abuse.

Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard Yard; 03/2014 – 04/2014

Ms. Crippen provided support for accounting initiatives driven by OMB that impact CG Yard accounting operations. Additionally, she provided accounting system support for the modules in the Naval and Electronics Supply Support System.

AOC Solutions, Inc., Manager, 06/2010 03/2013

Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard; 11/2012 03/2013

Ms. Crippen served as a Project Manager whose primary responsibility was to assist the client in financial process analysis and documentation; internal controls analysis and documentation; technical writing and editing; conducting a workforce assessment; coordinating a development program for the Resource Directorate including workforce training and tracking methodologies; data analysis; integrity testing; and reconciliation of receivables and payables. Additionally, Ms. Crippen oversaw a team that was responsible for testing and implementing existing costing methodologies to support the exchange of goods and services between government agencies; performing verifications and comparing general ledger data against source documents at the transactional level; and implementing and testing existing internal controls for all budget execution activities.

Corporation for National and Community Service; 08/2012 10/2012

Ms. Crippen served as the Project Manager, responsible for testing the most significant payment types used by the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) program in accordance with IPERA. The test results from this effort were used to report statistically valid projections of improper NCCC payment counts and amounts by payment type. Additionally, the test results provided evidence regarding the adequacy of the Corporation’s internal controls over AmeriCorps NCCC payments, recommendations for improvements, and required IPERA information to be included in the Corporation’s Annual Financial Report.

Department of Homeland Security, United States Coast Guard; 06/2010 07/2012

Ms. Crippen served as a Project Manager whose primary responsibility was to assist the client in reviewing and assessing the sufficiency and relevancy of existing standard operating procedures and providing updated, revised, or new process documentation for the civilian payroll process. As part of this task, Ms. Crippen’s team performed analysis of civilian payroll data by conducting integrity tests and continuous monitoring to ensure accuracy, validity, and completeness; performed gap analyses to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of data reconciliations used in the civilian payroll process and provides recommendations for improvement; and, developed and implemented a supportable civilian payroll accrual methodology that is regularly validated for accuracy and reasonableness. Additionally, Ms. Crippen oversaw the development of web-based training modules for time and attendance topics for employees, timekeepers and supervisors that allow management to document successful completion by individual user; development includes performing a Job Task Analysis for each module, creating course design documents, and developing curriculum for each module.

Watkins Meegan Government Services, LLC, Manager, 10/2008 – 03/2010

Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Financial Policy, Financial Process Improvement, Audit Readiness and Remediation Services; 10/2008 – 03/2010

Ms. Crippen served as the Engagement Manager of a team whose primary responsibility was to prepare the client for audit remediation and readiness by recommending corrective actions to eliminate financial management weaknesses and deficiencies identified during the annual financial statement audit; assist in addressing and resolving external auditor’s inquiries; identify and implement areas for financial process improvement; assist with the preparation and compilation of quarterly and annual financial statements; and, enable the client to maintain an unqualified audit opinion. In response to the client’s written reprimand from the US Department of the Treasury, Ms. Crippen led a substantial effort to develop a quasi-systematic process for preparing the client’s GFRS submission. This task entailed identifying gaps in existing procedures, recommending process improvements, and developing data and process flows that resulted in the creation of GFRS prototypes, as described in the comprehensive operations document prepared by Ms. Crippen’s team. Culmination of this effort ultimately resulted in an automatically populated prototype produced by the client’s financial reporting system.

US Department of the Interior, Senior Accountant; 3/2006 – 10/2008

As a senior accountant with the Office of the Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs, Ms. Crippen performed budget-related reviews, impact studies related to budget execution, and internal audits of undelivered order balances, accounts payable, cash disbursements and improper use of appropriated funds. Additionally, Ms. Crippen served as the subject matter expert and financial audit liaison for accounts payable, accounts receivable, travel, intra-governmental payments and collections, intra-governmental eliminations, USSGL trend and fluctuation analyses, Fund Balance with Treasury reconciliations and reporting and reimbursable fund accounting. Ms. Crippen developed and implemented financial policies and desk-level procedures, and also developed, coordinated and monitored the progress of corrective action plans. Ms. Crippen also served as the SME and liaison during the transition of the Department’s financial system from Momentum to FBMS, an SAP-based interdisciplinary system.

International Business Machines, Financial and Business Analyst; 10/2005 – 3/2006

Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Finance; 11/2005 02/2006

As a consultant, Ms. Crippen assisted the client with maintaining and updating its USSGL and subsidiary ledgers while providing guidance to the client on financial reporting content. She reconciled various financial statement account balances to ensure compliance with pertinent Federal laws, Department regulations, Office of Management and Budget and US Treasury guidance and Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board standards.

US Department of the Interior, Chief, Division of Fiscal Services; 7/2003-10/2005

Ms. Crippen supervised a staff of nearly 30 Federal and contractor employees within the Office of the Assistant Secretary Indian Affairs that was responsible for processing and researching vendor invoices, travel reimbursements, intra-governmental payments and collections, preparation and submission of the SF-224, and reconciliation of the SF-6652, 6653, and 6655 and intra-governmental eliminations. Additionally, Ms. Crippen was responsible for ensuring audit readiness by maintaining the required data used to prepare FACTS II and the Statement of Budgetary Resources; ensuring the reconciliation of FACTS II data was performed accurately and completely; and ensuring compliance with the Prompt Payment Act, Improper Payments Information Act and various other laws promoting fiscal responsibility.

US Department of the Interior, Accountant, Review and Analysis Team; 6/2000 to 06/2003

Ms. Crippen served as an accountant within the Bureau of Reclamation, Review and Analysis Team and was responsible for monitoring and preparing foreign and domestic reimbursable billing accounts and preparing accounting entries for closing income and expense accounts for reimbursable and other Regional accounts. Additionally, Ms. Crippen assisted in developing agency guidance and desk procedures for various business processes, reconciled subsidiary ledger accounts for Federal receivables, payables and obligations and prepared a variety of standard and ad hoc financial reports and statements.

Software

MS Word; Excel; PowerPoint; Project; Outlook; Federal Financial System; Oracle Financials; Crystal Reports; Document Direct; Hyperion; QuickBooks; SAP-HR Mini Master; Internet-proficient.

Education

Masters of Business Administration (coursework requirements completed), Finance and Accounting, Regis University, July 2001

Bachelors of Science, Accounting, University of Maryland, June 2000

Certifications

Certified Government Financial Manager

Memberships

Association of Government Accountants

American Society of Military Comptrollers

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