Mission
To provide sound and timely financial management services to District agencies under GOC’s purview and to ensure the financial stability, accountability and integrity of the agencies under the cluster by providing proper budgeting, accounting and financial controls.
Functions
The Government Operations Cluster formulates and manages the budget and performance plans for 38 District government agencies, totaling $2 billion in operating and approximately $2.7 billion in capital (over six years). Our financial and resource management services are divided into three functions:
Key Activities
GOC offers the following services, permitting client agencies to accomplish and exceed their programmatic goals:
- Accounts Payable
- Anti-deficiency Prevention Initiatives
- Audit Readiness and Support
- Bank Account Reconciliation
- Budget Development and Execution
- Cash Collections
- Accounts Receivable
- Executing Federal Drawdown
- External Reporting
- Design Implementation of Internal Controls
- Documentation
- Financial Policies & Procedures
- Financial Statements
- Financial Review Process
- Fixed-Cost Management
- Grants Monitoring
- GAAP Compliance
- General Ledger Accounting
- Indirect Cost Allocation
- Impementation of Best Practices
- Intra-District Payment and Billing
- Journal Entry
- Monthly Spending Plans
- Monthly, Interim, Year-End Close
- Payroll Monitoring and Control
- Reconciliation of Funded Positions
- Personal and Real Property Reporting
- Reprogramming
- Year-End Accrual -- Year-End CAFR Audit Support
Biographies of Key Staff
Associate Chief Financial Officer: Angelique Hayes Rice
Chief, Management Operations: Rhonda R. Cheatham
Director of Financial Operations: Michael Bolden
Cluster Controller: Gashaw Woldehanna
Contact Information
441 Fourth Street, NW, Suite 890N
Washington, DC 20001
Telephone: 202-727-0333
Facsimile: 202-727-2202
Rhonda Cheatham, Chief, Management Operations
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Michael Bolden, Director of Financial Operations
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Gashaw Woldehanna, Cluster Controller
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Anita Patterson, Executive Assistant
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