Please develop an executive summary of your proposed strategy for the project described in the scenario

As the Department’s Policy Analyst, you are tasked with the project of assessing the alignment of the Department’s policy and procedure (P&P) coverage with the criteria outlined in the U.S. GAO’s Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (also referred to as the Green Book) at the operational level (not within the conduct of audits). Before proceeding with this task, OQCT leadership requests the development of an executive summary of your proposed strategy for this assignment to share with the Department’s Senior Staff.

Assignment: • Please develop an executive summary of your proposed strategy for the project described in the scenario. • You will present the executive summary to the interview panel during your second interview. • Limit your project strategy to no more than 500 words and spend no more than 2 hours on this

assignment. • The applicant should use the Green Book excerpts at the end of this file to complete the assignment.

There is no expectation that the applicant reads the Green Book to complete this assignment. • Direct related assignment scope questions to Missy Wenrich or Randi Soward. Any questions

answered in response to one applicant’s question(s) will be shared with other applicants.

Assumptions: • The Department’s alignment with the Green Book at the operational level has never been evaluated. • The Department maintains an intranet site that houses its P&P. Not all the P&P are readily accessible

in one location on the intranet site. • Newly issued administrative P&P or updated administrative P&P prompt a mandatory training

requirement and P&P acknowledgment. This is not consistently the case for audit P&P. • During the conduct of audits, the audit bureaus are required to use the Green Book to evaluate the

auditees internal controls which is outside of the scope of this assignment.

Definitions: • Operational level is meant to include administrative operational responsibilities and related internal

controls prescribed by the Department offices and audit bureaus shown in this organizational chart: