# Presentation: 199033

## The National Finance Center

- Office of the Chief Financial Officer

**Refocusing                                               Doing Better What We Do Well**

- John Ortego, Director, NFC

- NFC Customer Briefing, November 17, 1999

**Revisit**

## Payroll/Personnel System
Implemented 2 payroll/personnel clients	
Payrolled 450,000 timely and accurately
Modified the Payroll/Personnel system for: 	
Employee Express- Savings Bonds
Transit Subsidy 
I-Bonds
FEGLI
TOPS

- Implemented 2 payroll/personnel clients
- Payrolled 450,000 timely and accurately
- Modified the Payroll/Personnel system for:
- Employee Express- Savings Bonds
- Transit Subsidy
- I-Bonds
- FEGLI
- TOPS

**Revisiting**

## Developed new Payroll/Personnel products:
EPIC
PODS
STAR
Payroll Personnel Interface

- EPIC
- PODS
- STAR
- Payroll Personnel Interface

**Revisiting**

## Compliant with DCIA
WEB applications
EARN
Expanded Employee Personal Page
Improved Cash Reconciliation
Established Customer Representatives

- WEB applications
- EARN
- Expanded Employee Personal Page
- Improved Cash Reconciliation
- Established Customer Representatives

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## Link to article on Employee Personal Page Award

- _Link to article on Employee __[Personal](http://www.govexec.com/bestfeds/99bestfeds.htm)__ Page Award_

## Disbursed $35B 
Collected $10B
Processed over 30M transactions
Continued Y2K efforts
Reduced costs
Supported legacy systems

- Collected $10B
- Processed over 30M transactions
- Continued Y2K efforts
- Reduced costs
- Supported legacy systems

**Revisiting**

## Expanded PCMS functionality
Managed TSP for 2.48M participants
Supported new TSP system development

- Managed TSP for 2.48M participants
- Supported new TSP system development

**Revisiting**

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**Revisit**

**Review**

**Refocus**

## Payroll/Personnel System
Pay local travel on T&A
Individual election of electronic E&L
Modifications for new TSP system 
Release
PODS version 1.6
STAR version 1.0
EPIC version 2.0

- Pay local travel on T&A
- Individual election of electronic E&L
- Modifications for new TSP system
- Release
- PODS version 1.6
- STAR version 1.0
- EPIC version 2.0

**Reviewing**

## Thrift Savings Plan
Supporting migration to daily valuation system
infrastructure
convert files
acceptance testing
Plan
transition  -  April
production  -  May

- Supporting migration to daily valuation system
- infrastructure
- convert files
- acceptance testing
- Plan
- transition  -  April
- production  -  May

**Reviewing**

## Expanding the WEB
Personal Benefits Statements 
E&L election form 
Ethics Reporting System
CEAS 

- Personal Benefits Statements
- E&L election form
- Ethics Reporting System
- CEAS

**Reviewing**

## Slide 14

## 
Implement new Payroll/Personnel customers
Implement Legislative mandates

- Implement new Payroll/Personnel customers
- Implement Legislative mandates

**Reviewing**

**Reviewing**

- _Link to NFC Y2K Rollover Plan_

## Managing Costs
Continue to reduce overhead and common costs 
Reduce staff on end game systems 
Implement new billing algorithm for FY 2001

- Continue to reduce overhead and common costs
- Reduce staff on end game systems
- Implement new billing algorithm for FY 2001

**Reviewing**

## My Commitment

- Absorb technology and cost of living increases

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- What about next year, John?

- Absorb Y2K costs

- 3 year fixed or declining costs

**Reviewing**

***Doing Better What We Do Well***

**Revisit**

**Review**

**Refocus**

***Doing Better What We Do Well***

**Refocusing on Managing       Employee-Based Systems**

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## Baseline
Current payroll engine successfully services 450,000 employees
Sixteen year-old system difficult to maintain and change
Customer demanding data utilization not simply timely, accurate, or cost-effective payroll

- Current payroll engine successfully services 450,000 employees
- Sixteen year-old system difficult to maintain and change
- Customer demanding data utilization not simply timely, accurate, or cost-effective payroll

**New Payroll Engine**

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## Need
Support decision making 
More tightly data integrated with human 	resource and financial systems
Responsive to unique, diverse, and evolving Federal payroll environment

- Support decision making
- More tightly data integrated with human 	resource and financial systems
- Responsive to unique, diverse, and evolving Federal payroll environment

**New Payroll Engine**

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

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

**New Payroll Engine**

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

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

**New Payroll Engine**

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## Procurement Strategy
Share in success
transaction based revenue stream
A COTS “Federal” pay engine
partner profits from NFC client base growth
Share in risk
up front investment with no guaranteed revenue
no pay = no pay

- Share in success
- transaction based revenue stream
- A COTS “Federal” pay engine
- partner profits from NFC client base growth
- Share in risk
- up front investment with no guaranteed revenue
- no pay = no pay

**New Payroll Engine**

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## Procurement Strategy
Statement of Objectives
Limited procurement
Due diligence

- Statement of Objectives
- Limited procurement
- Due diligence

**New Payroll Engine**

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## Long-term Vision

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**Administrative Manager of Federal Employee Record**

## Long-term Vision

- Advantages
- Offers reliable consolidated data
- Cost effective
- Single point for service

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## Long-term Vision

- Why NFC
- Experience in providing government-wide services
- TSP recordkeeping
- Payroll/Personnel
- Direct Premium Remittance
- Demonstrated ability to serve diverse client base
- Repository of subject matter expertise

**Refocusing**

***Doing Better What We Do Well***

## Help Us

- Need your feedback
- What are your most pressing needs?
- What are your technology plans?
- What are your thoughts on our long-term direction?
- Written input by late-January is vital!

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***Doing Better What We Do Well***

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