Bureau of the Fiscal Service

2014-2017 Strategic Goals & Supporting Strategies

Strategic Goals Supporting Strategies Why we want to accomplish this...

Lead

Strategic Goal 1 – Serve as a 

catalyst for effective government 

through initiative and innovation.

- Model the way for transformation of financial management

- Promote good stewardship of the public’s money

- Establish ourselves as a valued partner

- Speak with One Voice

- Influence the way the government operates 

- Collaborate with our customers on product and service concepts and 

design

- Work towards restoring public trust

- Commitment to serving the interest of the 

American People

- Improve the way we the Government works

- Value the customer

- Cost savings

- Cultivate overall customer experiences

Deliver

Strategic Goal 2 – Cultivate an 

engaged, highly effective and 

skilled workforce.

- Cultivate a diverse and cohesive culture

- Embrace a values-based work environment

- Establish an effective, integrated organizational infrastructure

- Motivate employees through challenging and rewarding work

- Foster courageous leadership that embraces innovation and risk taking

- Reinforce and promote a holistic workforce management approach

- Provide a safe and secure work environment

- Enhance skills development across the workforce and throughout the 

career lifecycle

- Our workforce is our greatest asset

- To be successful we need an infrastructure 

that is secure, scalable and flexible

Deliver

Strategic Goal 3 – Deliver

exceptional programs and 

services.

- Advance key partnerships to support government-wide initiatives

- Sponsor new electronic strategies that expand ways for the public and 

agencies to do business with the government

- Simplify user experience

- Administer a strong strategic, tactical and operational planning 

process

- Utilize effective project management

- Establish standard business processes that are flexible, adaptable and 

practical

- Maximize delivery of shared services

- Finance the government at the lowest possible cost over time

- Deliver Operational Excellence

- Respond to the changing needs of the 

government

- Deliver essential services to the government

- Deliver better ways for the public to interact 

with the government

- Save the government and the public money

- Allow agencies to focus on mission
Bureau of the Fiscal Service

2014-2017 Strategic Goals & Supporting Strategies

Strategic Goals Supporting Strategies Why we want to accomplish this...

Transform

Strategic Goal 4 – Promote data 

transparency and usefulness as a 

public good. 

- Establish the Fiscal Service as the single authoritative source for 

federal financial data

- Manage data and information as an asset

- Lead government-wide effort to adopt data standards for financial 

management

- Architect for unpredictability

- Deliver data that is timely, comprehensive, and accurate

- Model the principle of data being easy to find, accessible, useable and 

understandable to the public

- Promote linkage between financial data and performance 

measurements of the government

- Protect individual privacy and confidentiality and national security

- Take a lead role in providing access to detailed financial spending 

data that is accurate, timely and informative to interested parties.

- Fuel entrepreneurship, innovation and 

scientific discovery

- Facilitate better decision making

- Meet the demand for open data to generate 

insight, ideas, and services to create a better 

world

- Benefit from a shared service model

- Improved transparency and accountability

Transform

Strategic Goal 5 – Move federal 

financial management and 

administrative services to an 

affordable, sustainable service 

provider.

- Design and lead the effort to move federal agencies to approved 

shared services providers for core accounting and financial 

management services

- Expand business lines

- Deliver a strong governance process

- Rapidly implement statutory and regulatory 

requirements through shared services

- Improve consistency and overall quality of 

Government-wide administrative services

- Leverage Economies of Scale for cost-savings 

government-wide

- Allow agencies to focus on mission