Terry Riffel SES

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Management Business Transformation Service Department of Veterans Affairs

Ms. Riffel is responsible for leading the implementation of an enterprise-wide financial and acquisition management system in cooperation with the administrations and staff offices. Through her leadership, VA will leverage the VA Enterprise Cloud to host CGI’s SaaS Momentum offering. VA’s configured solution is known as Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS). She leads the program's vision to provide VA a modern financial and acquisition management solution with transformative business processes and capabilities that enable VA to meet its goals and objectives in compliance with financial management legislation and directives. Through her guidance and leadership, the financial system transformation effort will increase the transparency, accuracy, timeliness and reliability of financial information, resulting in improved fiscal accountability to American tax payers and will offer a significant opportunity to improve care and services to Veterans. CAREER CHRONOLOGY: Deputy Assistant Secretary, Financial Management Business Transformation Service Director, Financial Services Center, June 2012-Present Associate Director, Financial Healthcare Service, March 2012-June 2012 Associate Director, Financial Operations Service, February 2002-March 2012 EDUCATION: Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program- 2007 Leadership VA- 2005 Federal Executive Institute- 2005 Bachelor of Science, Accounting Management, Park University, Missouri- 1997 PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS: Project Management Professional (PMP) – 2011- Project Management Institute. VA- FAC-P/PM AWARDS AND HONORS: Consecutive Outstanding performance awards throughout career. Chief Financial Officer Award for Financial Management Innovation 2008 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS: Project Management Institute, Austin Chapter

Conference Day Two: July 24, 2024

11:30 AM PANEL DISCUSSION: IMPLICATIONS OF FMBT FOR VETERAN CARE

The panel will discuss how VA is modernizing and integrating its financial and acquisition environments through the Financial Management Business Transformation (FMBT) program and its deployment of the Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System (iFAMS). This is the largest transformation effort in VA history and represents a comprehensive improvement in business processes, decision-making, and services, which will in turn enhance the Veteran experience. The panel will also discuss how FMBT collaborates with VA’s Supply Chain Modernization initiative to avoid impacts to patient care and delivery of services

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