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01395 Chief Financial Office Chief Financial Officer The Chief Financial Officer nianages the functions within this office and provides leadership in fostering quality and making the transition to a collaborative culture. Final staffing level: 2 FTE Compliance and Audit Liaison Ibis office manages and directs programs which assure Western's compliance with intemal control, audit and compliance laws and regulations. Comments said that the proposed staffing level of four FTE was too, low. The proposed allocation of staffing will not be increased. Compliance with critica1laws and regulations can be achieved under the staffing level assigned to this function. Risk analysis in the future may lead to additional staffing or a need for barrier busting. Final staffing level: 4 FIE Budget and Analysis The Budget and Analysis group formulates Western's agencywide budget request. Workload balance is served by having these functions report to the same manager. Comment on the budget/analysis staffing level asked that an additional FIE be added to bolster the analysis function. Given the importance of this group from a Westemwide perspective, the, challenges of acquiring sufficient budgetary resources in the future, and the lack of change in DOE, OMB and congressional requirements, the request for one additional FIE is accepted. The Administrator's briefing book was also the subject of comment. While process improvement is expected to make the briefing book more focused and shorter, the purpose of the document is to support WeStern's budgetaIy request. In recognition of this fact, the overall lead for the briefing book will be with the Budget and Analysis group, while the lead for developing papers on specific Western issues will be the Corporate Affairs Office. The book should not attempt to answer all potential questions, but provide answers to the traditional questions that appear each year and to questions pertaining to the ament budget request before Congress. In addition, a process should be set up so that regional offices and the CSO have "on call" people available during the annual appropriations hearing to assure rapid response to follow up on written or oral questions. Final staffing level: 8 FIE Finance The Finance group supports Western's financial activities and provides financial management leadership and insight into Western's business decisions. In response to employee comments, and as described in more detail in the CSO financial 13