This project’s primary Sehlke mission is to conduct activities necessary to provide financial and logistics expertise supporting SOF AT&L’s efforts to attain full financial statement audit readiness. To that end, Sehlke aids in drafting all the required updates to SOCOM Directives and policy and leading working groups to support SOF AT&L’s FIAR efforts. Team Sehlke works with the SOF AT&L leadership and various entities across the command to ensure the documentation required for financial transactions and material applicable to SOF AT&L for FIAR compliance is available and complete. Sehlke further works to identify and provide Courses of Action (COA) to resolve weaknesses in existing logistics and financial business practices and improve the command’s fidelity of asset accountability.
In recent efforts, Sehlke closely coordinated with the Independent Public Accountant (IPA) to reduce SOF AT&L’s FY20 audit exceptions by 28% and uncovered a million-dollar overpayment during their Payment Recapture Audit internal review. Sehlke has also provided bi-weekly performance briefs related to SOF AT&L’s overall performance on the ongoing audit.
Most notably, Sehlke supported a more than 100% increase in Provided By Client (PBC) responses, Follow-On Questions, and Substantive Samples from 2019 to 2020, and did so with a pass/fail rate increase from 77% to 85%. This effort collectively also represented a 100% timely sample delivery rate to the IPA for the full universe of 433 audit samples tasked to the command.