Goal: Provide accurate and reliable financial information.

Objectives:

• Prepare and distribute timely financial reports and schedules.
• Maintain and promote timely, efficient, cash processing methods.
• Provide accurate and timely treasury cash reconciliation.

Goal: Deliver reliable, effective, financial service applications.

Objectives:

• Keep systems current through patching or upgrades of software, hardware, and/or infrastructure.
• Coordinate with information technology partners and vendors to maximize resources and information sharing.
• Employ reliable and effective backup and disaster recovery strategies.

Goal: Encourage state and local government financial transparency and fiscal responsibility.

Objectives:

• Administer the State of Montana Single Audit Act and collect budget data for political subdivisions.
• Submit financial information for inclusion on the state’s transparency website.

Goal: Strengthen and monitor internal controls to promote efficiency, to reduce risk, and to help ensure reliability of financial statements and compliance with laws and regulations.

Objectives:

• Establish and maintain internal control analytical and risk assessment tools.
• Maintain system and division security plans.
• Identify areas of risk to target for strengthening controls.
• Provide reliable, relevant, and easily accessible policy.

Goal: Serve as a resource to state agencies, political subdivisions, and other organizations.

Objectives:

• Keep websites updated with useful and relevant information.
• Provide technical assistance to stakeholders.
• Inform stakeholders of changes in methods and procedures.

Goal: Partner with federal and state agencies, and other organizations to administer federal programs.

Objectives:

• Administer Section 218 of the Social Security Act to ensure proper application of Social Security coverage to all state government and political subdivision employees.
• Administer the Statewide Cost Allocation Plan.
• Administer the federal Cash Management Improvement Act.
• Administer Internal Revenue Service reporting as it relates to payments.

Goal: Implement efficiencies and coordinate resources.

Objectives:

• Coordinate division resources to enhance information sharing and avoid duplication of effort.
• Implement technology or business process efficiencies.

Goal: Promote an environment that fosters innovation, efficiency, excellence, and service.

Objectives:

• Develop bureau strategies that target specific processes that have the potential to add value to our customers.
• Employ techniques that encourage team collaboration and creative thinking.
• Develop methods to acquire feedback from customers.

Goal: Create and maintain a highly qualified, professional, diverse, and responsive workforce.

Objectives:

• Promote professional growth and development opportunities.
• Encourage and provide opportunities for employees to stay current in their field and be aware of industry best practices.
• Employ best practice strategies for employee recruitment, selection, retention, and training.
• Review and maintain succession plan strategies.

Goal: Successfully implement those objectives and tasks in the Governor’s Main Street Montana Project that fall within the authority of the division.

Objective:

• Actively manage our division plan by discussing at monthly division management meetings.

See this biennium's 2019 Biennium Goals and Objectives.