Arlington, VA – April 01, 2021 – Sehlke Consulting, LLC is proud to announce our second prime task order award for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) Standard Accounting, Budgeting, and Reporting System (SABRS)-to-Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) transition. Sehlke’s most recent award involves directly supporting the USMC via the Deputy Commandant (DC) for Programs and Resources (P&R) and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (DASN), Financial Management and Systems (FMS). Sehlke provides business system and process support services to transition the current Marine Corps to the new Oracle-based federal financial solution, to include training, stakeholder engagement, and sustainment to maintain-or-enhance overall mission capabilities.
Per the DC, P&R memo “The Transition of the Marine Corps General Fund Financial Management and Accounting System” dated 16th October 2020, the Marine Corps is evolving its Business Mission Systems. One of the initial actions of that evolution involves transitioning the SABRS accounting system and other Business Processes to DAI. SABRS has been the Marine Corps’ authoritative accounting system since 1991. SABRS was developed by Marines for Marines and has served the entire Department of the Navy (DON) as part of its general ledger system consolidation plan for transition to an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) framework. While SABRS has served the Marine Corps well, challenges to its long-term viability include its complexity of controls, scope and complexity of feeder system reconciliations needed to validate inputs to financial reporting data, and additional changes needed to remediate audit findings. DAI has all of the attributes of a modern, next generation, Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) accounting system, and Sehlke will enable the Marine Corps to deliver the following capabilities:
• DAI complies with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) meeting statutory requirements as an auditable application and has received unmodified opinions in its Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements No. 18 (SSAE-18 or “SOC 1 “) reports for the last 3 years.
• DAI features automated internal controls; immediate compliance with DOD and Federal laws, regulations, and policies; and compliance with procurement data standards and data standards.
• DAI contains analytic tools that will enable the predictive analysis necessary for evidenced-based business decisions within the Marine Corps’ reformed planning, programming, budgeting, execution, and analysis framework.
• DAI supports additional process transformation; to include, future-state processes based on Department of Defense (DoD) Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) and standard Federal and DoD data structures; reduced procurement costs through controlled spending and reduced transaction overhead; elimination of existing disbursement issues; and consolidation of purchase request capability.
• DAI supports data management transformation to include full visibility of financial data from the General Ledger to transaction details; capability to capture and report costs at the project/task (activity) level; and standardization of system architecture data elements, fields, and file layouts using the DAI Global Model standard to eliminate costly and complex customizations.
Additionally, Sehlke provides tactical-level support to functional area organizations, business process owners, and key interface partners while maintaining an overall Department of the Navy (DON) financial systems and auditability framework. Delivery includes support to knowledge management, risk management, change management, training, functional area SME support, driving necessary systems changes/solutioning, and managing a USMC Integrated Master Schedule (IMS). Sehlke brings deep SME experience in managing, migrating, and sustaining defense financial and business systems, including DAI/Oracle expertise. Sehlke brings USMC business process SMEs with unparalleled veteran experience as end users, managers, and schoolhouse instructors over the functional and business processes and capabilities that will be transitioned or introduced. Sehlke’s combined systems and process area expertise synchronize efforts to bring best practices to the Marine Corps’ process owners. Lastly, Sehlke team members ensure the functional, operational, and audit requirements of the DON are captured as they perform transactional trend analysis and financial and logistical data collection, in order to monitor metrics and reporting; conduct analysis of budget execution trends; and develop business and financial process improvements.
For more information, please contact Andrew Shinskie, Navy Partner, at (202) 999-0058 or andrew.shinskie@sehlkeconsulting.com.
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