The assistant secretary has responsibility for major operational components that support agency-wide functions, including the Interior Business Center, Office of Valuation Services, Office of Aviation Services, Natural Resource Damage Assessment program, Central Hazardous Materials Fund and the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program. The assistant secretary also oversees the Wildland Fire program in coordination with the three land management bureaus and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
In fiscal 2015, the Department of the Interior had $12,340 million in outlays and 48,798 total employment. The actual fiscal 2015 departmental operations budget for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget was $3.753 million with 25 full-time equivalents. However, the CFO oversees the financial management of the entire department.
• Develops and maintains integrated accounting and financial management systems
• Oversees the recruitment, selection and training of personnel to carry out agency financial management functions, as well as manages, trains and provides policy guidance and oversight of these personnel and their activities
• Implements agency asset-management systems, including systems for cash management, credit management, debt collection, and property and inventory management and control
• Develops budgets that support all agency missions
• Manages the financial execution of the agency budget and actual expenditures
• Provides financial and performance reports to staff, overseers and stakeholders
• Ties the budget and performance to outcomes
• Takes the lead role in enterprise risk-management
• Ensures departmental compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements related to annual appropriations bills and related to department-wide functions such as performance, finance, acquisition and property management, budget, general management, administration, civil rights and equal access