Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

The fiscal assistant secretary of the treasury is the highest-ranking career official in the United States Department of the Treasury.

According to statute, the fiscal assistant secretary is appointed by the United States secretary of the treasury.^[1] The Fiscal Service, which the fiscal assistant secretary heads,^[2] includes the Bureau of Government Financial Operations^[3] (which since 1984 has been known as the Financial Management Service and the Bureau of the Public Debt.^[4]

The fiscal assistant secretary is responsible for the following principal functions:^[5]

• (1) Provides general supervision, policy oversight, management, and coordination of what is now the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
• (2) Oversees the development of policies, programs, and systems for the collection, disbursement, management and security of public monies in the United States and in foreign countries and the related governmentwide accounting and reporting for such funds.
• (3) Oversees the development of policies, programs, and systems for financing and accounting for the public debt.
• (4) Provides general supervision and policy oversight of the Department's role as lead agency in improving cash management, credit administration, debt collection and financial management systems on a governmentwide basis.
• (5) Provides policy advice and general oversight regarding international cash management activities and improvements, including agreements to purchase foreign currencies and the holding and disbursement of these funds.
• (6) Ensures the timely consolidation and publication of information on the Federal Government's financial operations and financial position for use by decision-makers in the Government and in private sector financial markets.
• (7) Directs the implementation of security enhancements to ensure the authentication and integrity of data affecting electronic funds transfers.
• (8) Oversees the administration and investment of the Federal Government accounts and trust funds.
• (9) Oversees the management of the Treasury's daily cash position and the investment of excess operating cash balances.
• (10) Provides estimates of the Treasury's future cash and debt position for use by the Department in connection with its financing activities and other financial operations.
• (11) Provides direction and oversight of the performance of fiscal agency functions by the Federal Reserve banks as fiscal agents of the Treasury.
• (12) يوافق على المبادئ والمعايير الجديدة والمعدلة وتصميمات الأنظمة لأنظمة المحاسبة المالية لوزارة الخزانة التي تديرها وتحافظ عليها دائرة الإدارة المالية ومكتب الدين العام، وينسق الجهود لمراجعة هذه الأنظمة وتحسينها والإبلاغ عنها وفقًا للقسم 4 من قانون النزاهة المالية للمديرين الفيدراليين، القانون العام 97-255 (31 USC 3512(d)(2)(B)).
• (13) يوافق، وفقًا لتوجيهات الخزانة المعمول بها، على اللوائح المتعلقة بسوق الأوراق المالية الحكومية ويشارك في تطوير قضايا السياسة التي تؤثر على سيولة السوق وسلامته وكفاءته.
• (14) يقدم المشورة السياسية إلى وكيل الوزارة (الشؤون الدولية) بشأن شروط وأحكام اتفاقيات الاقتراض من السلطات النقدية الدولية الأجنبية.
• (15) يمثل الوزير في توجيه مشاركة وزارة الخزانة في برنامج تحسين الإدارة المالية المشتركة لتحسين جميع جوانب الإدارة المالية في الحكومة.
• (16) يمثل السكرتير في مختلف اللجان والمجالس والهيئات المشتركة بين الإدارات.