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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF RISK OFFICER
HOW WE ARE SUCCEEDING

*	 Establishing a policy for electronic signatures. This work included the collaboration by OCFO's Accounts Payable
Managers/Supervisor Government
Operations Cluster (GOC), Government
Services Cluster (GSC), Economic
Development and Regulation Cluster
(EDRC), Education Cluster (EC), Public
Safety and Justice Cluster (PSJC),
Human Support Services Cluster (HSSC),
ControllerOffice of Management and
Administration (OMA), Office of the Chief
Information Officer (OCIO), ERP Director
and the Office of the General Counsel
(OGC).
*	 Establishing a process to convert from
paper to electronic while ensuring various levels of approval, appropriate internal controls exist (segregation of duties),
and that policies and procedures are
updated, saved, and properly stored.
This effort was achieved by engaging
all key stakeholders from various OCFO
business units such as the Revenue
Accounting Administration-Refund
Control Unit (RAA-RCU), Real Property
Tax Administration (RPTA), Office of Tax
and Revenue General Counsel (OTR
OGC), and OCIO, ERP Director.
*	 Updating policy and procedures to
ensure that strong internal controls exist
to mitigate fraudulent activity and prevent
data from being compromised by bad
actors. The task force was established

to continually improve the vendor payment and vendor management process
to protect the assets of the District and
our taxpayers. This work included the
participation by the ACH Task Force who
consisted of key stakeholders across
the District, OCFO's AP Managers, and
a supervisor from the cluster agencies
(GOC, GSC, HSSC, OMA Controller,
OCIO, ERP Director, Office of Financial
Operations and Systems (OFOS), Director
of Accounting Operations, OFOS,
Director of Policies and Procedures,
Office of Finance and Treasury(OFT)
Treasury Operations Officer, OFT,
Assistant General Counsel, Procurement
Center of Excellence (PCOE)-Chief
Contracting Officer, Vendor Management
Specialist, Call Center Operations
Support Administrator, OCTO PASS
Program Manager, OCIO IT Manager/
Architect, and OCFO's Continuous
Improvement Officer.
The OCRO will continue to identify and
report risk events to the OCFO and will
meticulously implement strategies to prevent, detect, respond, and mitigate some of
the emerging risks caused by COVID-19 and
the future operational environment. (See the
sidebar "Thinking Risk Management during
COVID-19.") *

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