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Contact: Doris A. Chew, (202) 219-0528

email doris.chew@gsa.gov

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# LABOR CFO RECEIVES TOP HONORS 

Samuel T. Mok, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), U.S. Department of Labor,
received top honors for financial management leadership from the Joint
Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP). He was one of this
year's Donald L. Scantlebury Memorial Award recipients at the March
10^th^ Federal Financial Management Conference, sponsored by the JFMIP
Principals and the U.S. Chief Financial Officers Council, in Washington,
DC. The Donald L. Scantlebury Memorial Award recognizes distinguished
leadership in financial management improvements in the public sector.
Two of the JFMIP Principals, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
Director Linda M. Springer and Comptroller General David M. Walker, made
the presentation to Mr. Mok for outstanding and distinguished leadership
in improving financial management.

As the Labor Department CFO, Mr. Mok has improved accountability and
internal control and implemented improved financial management tools
including a managerial cost accounting system. Labor has received
unqualified audit opinions on its financial statements for the past nine
years; and the last five years without any material weaknesses. Labor
received green ratings for financial performance and improper payments
on the President's Management Agenda scorecard. In the human capital
arena, Mr. Mok has led an aggressive effort to improve financial
management skill sets at Labor by broadening the pool of candidates for
positions and updating position descriptions to more accurately reflect
changes in statutory responsibilities and organizational needs of the
21^st^ century workforce. Under his leadership, the Association of
Government Accountants awarded the Department of Labor its fifth
consecutive Certificate of Excellence in Annual Reporting.

Mr. Mok has led interagency committees to improve federal financial
management, including co-chairing of the Financial Management Line of
Business, and a CFO Council Financial Systems Integration Committee. Mr.
Mok's career has spanned both public and private sectors. Prior to his
appointment as the CFO at the Department of Labor, Mr. Mok was a
managing member of an international business consulting firm, Chief
Executive Officer of a New York based business systems consulting firm,
Comptroller and CFO at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, a foreign
service officer at the U.S. Department of State, and served in the U.S.
Army as a commissioned officer.

Mr. Mok serves as a U.S. Government representative on the Republic of
the Marshall Islands Trust Fund Committee, the General Administration
Board for the United States Department of Agriculture Graduate School,
and was recently elected to be a fellow for the National Academy of
Public Administration (NAPA). Mr. Mok serves on the U.S. Government
Accountability Office (GAO) Advisory Council on Government Audit
Standards, the Board of Trustees for the AGA Academy for Government
Accountability and the Asian American Government Executives Network
(AAGEN) Advisory Board. Mr. Mok received his Masters of Arts in auditing
from Catholic University and a B.S. in accounting from Fordham
University. He is a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Government
Financial Manager

The JFMIP Principals are the Secretary of the Treasury, GAO Comptroller
General, the Director, Office of Management and Budget and the Director,
OPM. The Financial Systems Integration Office, General Services
Administration is responsible for planning and conducting the Federal
Financial Management Conference. The award was named to commemorate a
dynamic leader, whose ideas and actions brought significant advances to
financial management in the public sector. At the time of his death, Mr.
Scantlebury was the Chief Accountant and Director, Accounting and
Financial Management at GAO, and a member of the JFMIP Steering
Committee.

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