April 26: SPEAKERS ADDED to Meeting with Peggy Sherry, Chief Financial Officer, DHS

Join the Coalition to hear more about the DHS budget for 2012/13 with

Peggy Sherry Acting Chief Financial Officer

Elizabeth Gelfer Acting Budget Director, DHS

Morgan Geiger Deputy Director Program Analysis & Evaluation, DHS

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The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) is responsible for the fiscal management, integrity and accountability of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The mission of the OCFO is to provide guidance and oversight of the Department’s budget, financial management, financial operations for all Departmental management and operations, the DHS Working Capital Fund, grants and assistance awards, and resource management systems to ensure that funds necessary to carry out the Department’s mission are obtained, allocated, and expended in accordance with the Department’s priorities and relevant law and policies.

Peggy Sherry is the Department of Homeland Security’s acting Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Sherry joined the Department in 2007 as the Director for OFM, and was responsible for developing department-wide financial management policy, leading the department’s financial audits, and preparing department-wide financial reports. Ms. Sherry moved to Deputy CFO before accepting the role of acting CFO during the administrative transition. Prior to joining the Department, Ms. Sherry was the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Under her leadership, she oversaw the successful conversion to the Museum’s new financial management system and instituted processes to obtain seven unqualified audit opinions on the Museum’s financial statements. Ms. Sherry was an auditor with the Government Accountability Office for more than nine years and oversaw numerous financial audits, including leading segments of the financial statement audit of the U.S. government. Prior to her service in the public sector, she worked as a financial manager in the banking and construction industries.

Ms. Sherry has her Bachelors degree in Accounting from George Mason University and a Masters in Accounting and Finance from the University of Maryland (UMUC). Ms. Sherry is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Financial Government Manager.