# Presentation: 585189

## Payroll/Personnel Update

**Office of the Chief Financial Officer**
**NATIONAL FINANCE CENTER**

## Today’s Presentation

**State of NFC**

**Payroll/Personnel System**

**Pay Engine Project**

**Wrap-Up**

## Today’s Presentation

**State of NFC**

## Revalidated
Continued to test client interfaces
Established emergency response teams
Minimized disruptions to clients
THANKS!

- Continued to test client interfaces
- Established emergency response teams
- Minimized disruptions to clients
***THANKS!***

**Y2K, OK!**

## Production activities 
Legislative mandates
Legacy systems - managed support 
Growth opportunities

- Legislative mandates
- Legacy systems - managed support
- Growth opportunities

**Ongoing Support**

## Role
infrastructure
convert files
acceptance testing
Plan
transition  -  TBD
production  -  TBD

- infrastructure
- convert files
- acceptance testing
- Plan
- transition  -  TBD
- production  -  TBD

**Implementing New TSP System**

## FFIS 
Procurement Modernization
Audit Response
Cash Reconciliation
Security

- Procurement Modernization
- Audit Response
- Cash Reconciliation
- Security

**Major Non-PPS Initiatives**

## FFIS 
Procurement Modernization
Audit Response
Cash Reconciliation
Security

- Procurement Modernization
- Audit Response
- Cash Reconciliation
- Security

**Major Non-PPS Initiatives**

## FFIS 
Procurement Modernization
Audit Response
Cash Reconciliation
Security

- Procurement Modernization
- Audit Response
- Cash Reconciliation
- Security

**Major Non-PPS Initiatives**

## FFIS 
Procurement Modernization
Audit Response
Cash Reconciliation
Security

- Procurement Modernization
- Audit Response
- Cash Reconciliation
- Security

**Major Non-PPS Initiatives**

## OIG/GAO recommendations
Internal controls
Consolidated financial statements
FISCAM

- Internal controls
- Consolidated financial statements
- FISCAM

**Audit Response**

## FFIS 
Procurement Modernization
Audit Response
Cash Reconciliation
Security

- Procurement Modernization
- Audit Response
- Cash Reconciliation
- Security

**Major Non-PPS Initiatives**

## Aggressively addressed historical reconciliation issues
Corrected >100 systemic causes
Established dedicated teams
Establishing infrastructure for future issues

- Corrected >100 systemic causes
- Established dedicated teams
- Establishing infrastructure for future issues

**Cash Reconciliation**

## FFIS 
Procurement Modernization
Audit Response
Cash Reconciliation
Security

- Procurement Modernization
- Audit Response
- Cash Reconciliation
- Security

**Major Non-PPS Initiatives**

## Expanded network-centric security 
Limited access authorities
Developing intrusion response
Emphasizing risk management 
Increasing security awareness

- Limited access authorities
- Developing intrusion response
- Emphasizing risk management
- Increasing security awareness

**Security Program**

## Flat R&D
Automate manual functions 
Increase mail room productivity
Defer facility maintenance

- Automate manual functions
- Increase mail room productivity
- Defer facility maintenance

**Stable Unit Costs**

## Use direct cost drivers
Transition to activity-based costing
Convert data center to cost center 

- Transition to activity-based costing
- Convert data center to cost center

**Revise Rate-Setting Methodology**

## Today’s Presentation

**Payroll/Personnel System**

## TSP modifications 
Transit & parking subsidy  
FEHB pre-tax
New NOA codes for cash awards
Commercial garnishments

- Transit & parking subsidy
- FEHB pre-tax
- New NOA codes for cash awards
- Commercial garnishments

**Legislative Mandates**

## Local travel on T&A’s
E&L’s 
Election by Agency
Individual in FY 2001
STAR
Initial version deployed
Functionality being added

- E&L’s
- Election by Agency
- Individual in FY 2001
- STAR
- Initial version deployed
- Functionality being added

**Functional Improvements**

## EPIC version 2.0
SPPS
FESI Functionality
W2

- SPPS
- FESI Functionality
- W2

**Functional Improvements**

## Redesigned Home Page

**“****WEB IT”**

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup

**“****WEB IT”**

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup

**“****WEB IT”**

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup

**“****WEB IT”**

## Slide 30

## Slide 31

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup

**“****WEB IT”**

## Slide 33

## Slide 34

## Employee Personal Page100,000 & Counting

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup
Electronic directives

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup
- Electronic directives

**“****WEB IT”**

## Slide 37

## Slide 38

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup
Electronic directives
Reporting Center

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup
- Electronic directives
- Reporting Center

**“****WEB IT”**

## Slide 40

## Slide 42

## Redesigned Home Page
EPP
Personal Benefits Statements 
Ethics Reporting System 
Signup
Electronic directives
Reporting Center
Download Center 

- EPP
- Personal Benefits Statements
- Ethics Reporting System
- Signup
- Electronic directives
- Reporting Center
- Download Center

**“****WEB IT”**

## Thanks!!
Client input 
active participation in CAPPS
Clients
NFC
periodic payroll/personnel meetings

- Client input
- active participation in CAPPS
- Clients
- NFC
- periodic payroll/personnel meetings

**Managed Support**

## Today’s Presentation

**Pay Engine Project**

## Pays 450,000 employees
Seventeen year-old system difficult to 	maintain
Customers demanding more
timely
accurately
cost-effective

- Seventeen year-old system difficult to 	maintain
- Customers demanding more
- timely
- accurately
- cost-effective

**Baseline**

## Support decision making 
More tightly integrate human resource and financial data
Be more responsive to a diverse and evolving payroll environment

- More tightly integrate human resource and financial data
- Be more responsive to a diverse and evolving payroll environment

**Must**

## Strategy that serves well all stakeholders
Serve better and grow client base
Minimize client agency investment
Flexible and easily maintained system
Fast to market

- Serve better and grow client base
- Minimize client agency investment
- Flexible and easily maintained system
- Fast to market

**Goals**

## Partner with industry
industry provides:
COTS
programming labor
government provides:
requirements
subject matter expertise
infrastructure

- industry provides:
- COTS
- programming labor
- government provides:
- requirements
- subject matter expertise
- infrastructure

**Value Proposition**

## Share in success

Share in risk

- Share in risk

**Procurement Strategy**

## Pay Engine

## Pay Engine

**Pay Engine**

## Gained Departmental commitment
Issued RFI
Engaged support contractor
Assembled team
Targeting early FY 2001 award

- Issued RFI
- Engaged support contractor
- Assembled team
- Targeting early FY 2001 award

**Status**

## JRP’s for additional functionality in July
Client Coordination Board
Implementation planning sessions pre- and post-award
Technology Readiness
People 
Platforms
Data Cleanup and Conversion

- Client Coordination Board
- Implementation planning sessions pre- and post-award
- Technology Readiness
- People
- Platforms
- Data Cleanup and Conversion

**Client Involvement**

## Pilot
Phase by common functionality
Centralized to decentralized concept
Interested parties to front of line (Departments/Agencies/Bureaus)

- Phase by common functionality
- Centralized to decentralized concept
- Interested parties to front of line (Departments/Agencies/Bureaus)

**Implementation Strategy**

## Continue “managed support”
Balance resources between PPS and Pay Engine
Sunset date for PPS (FY04?)

- Balance resources between PPS and Pay Engine
- Sunset date for PPS (FY04?)

**Balancing Support**

## Today’s Presentation

**Wrap-Up**

## NFC wants to serve you
NFC will:
maintain system currency
offer expanded functionality
involve you in the process
be flexible 
offer deployment alternatives

- NFC will:
- maintain system currency
- offer expanded functionality
- involve you in the process
- be flexible
- offer deployment alternatives

**Building Relationships**

## QUESTIONS ?

EPP SIGNUP

DEMOS

- EPP SIGNUP
- DEMOS

_**Wednesday, June 21, 2000**_
**8:30 a.m.  -  4:00 p.m.****	****Application Demonstrations**
**                                                *****EPIC, PODS, STAR, EPP,     ******	******	******	******	******Reporting Center***
** **_**Thursday, June 22, 2000**_
** ****8:30 a.m.  -  Noon****	****	****Application Demonstrations**
- 				***EPIC, PODS, STAR, EPP,     ******	******	******	******	******Reporting Center***

## WWW.NFC.USDA.GOV

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