{"id":28889,"date":"2023-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28889"},"modified":"2023-09-26T06:42:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:42:37","slug":"closing-the-books-on-fy2023-total-team-effort-for-405th-afsb-resource-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=28889","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Closing the books\u2019 on FY2023 total team effort for 405th AFSB resource managers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The team at the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s resource management directorate pose for a group photo in front of the brigade headquarters on Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Sept. 19. It\u2019s a total team effort to close out the end-of-year budget and prepare for the next fiscal year, said Suleymanu Muhammadou, the 405th AFSB RM director.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany \u2013 For the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, no mission can be completed without money and a team of dedicated and professional resource management budget analysts and program analysts.<\/p>\n

Suleymanu Muhammadou is the 405th AFSB\u2019s director of resource management (S-8). He and his team of about a dozen RM experts located in four countries across Europe manage the budget for the brigade headquarters, eight Logistics Readiness Centers and four Army Field Support Battalions, plus more. And according to Muhammadou, it really gets busy at the end of the fiscal year, especially this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn average, the operating budget for the LRCs, and this is just a rough estimate, is around $25 million a year,\u201d Muhammadou said. \u201cFor the battalions and their Army Prepositioned Stocks-2 sites, the operating budget during a normal fiscal year is around $220 to $240 million.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is just the steady state missions, but with our involvement supporting current operations in Europe, we have seen our budget explode to the tune of almost $460 million this year, overall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\n Suleymanu Muhammadou, the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s director of resource management (S-8), works end-of-year budget requirements at his office on Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Sept. 19. Muhammadou said he and his team must have all fiscal year 2023 financial transactions reconciled and accounted for by September 30, midnight Eastern Standard Time.
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And Muhammadou and his team of RM experts aren\u2019t done spending yet. In fact, it\u2019s crunch time as the end of the fiscal year quickly approaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fiscal year begins October 1st and ends September 30th,\u201d said Muhammadou. \u201cBefore September 30 we must execute all remaining FY23 funds and meet all critical deadlines in the year-end closeout process imposed by Army Sustainment Command. We must ensure all remaining funds are spent on bona fide requirements or returned to Army Sustainment Command.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSimply put, we must have all financial transactions reconciled and accounted for by September 30, midnight, Eastern Standard Time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This entails running multiple reports daily, ensuring all open transactions are tracked to the item level, and working with multiple stakeholders \u2013 multiple contracting offices across the theater, such as the 409th Contracting Support Brigade in Germany and additional contracting offices in the Netherlands and Italy, for example.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we have a contract action that’s out there that’s pending award, we have to know exactly when that contract is going to be awarded and we have to follow through with the contracting agent to make sure it\u2019s awarded on time so that we can properly close our books,\u201d Muhammadou said.<\/p>\n

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\n Madeline Klokoci and Kannika Sitthideth, both budget analysts with the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s resource management directorate (G-8), work together on an end-of-year budget requirement at their office on Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Sept. 19. It\u2019s crunch time for them as the end of the fiscal year quickly approaches.
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For Muhammadou and his team, they still have a considerable number of transactions in the spend plan that are scheduled to be executed this quarter. As they reconcile these final transactions and close the books on fiscal year 2023, simultaneously they\u2019re still executing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to have contracts that will go down to the wire and be executed on September 30th. It can be extremely challenging and stressful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

But lucky for Muhammadou and the 405th AFSB, the brigade\u2019s resource management office receives much assistance from ASC, 21st Theater Sustainment Command and U.S. Army Europe and Africa. And he has an amazing team of professional analysts \u2013 both local national employees from multiple countries and U.S. Army federal civilians \u2013 all who are up for the challenge, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be impossible to have a successful year-end closeout without the team I have,\u201d Muhammadou said. \u201cTheir camaraderie, commitment, dedication, hard work and teamwork is truly remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another challenge at year-end closeout, according to Muhammadou, is the 405th AFSB\u2019s rather large reimbursable budget \u2013 meaning the reimbursable services and support the brigade provides to other organizations and units across the European footprint.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’ll take the non-tactical vehicles, for instance,\u201d said Muhammadou, of which there are over 1,400 across the theater, he added. \u201cNot every unit pays their bills on time so it’s a challenge making sure that we get a hold of those units to ensure that we receive the funding in time to obligate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Grace Berger, a budget analyst with the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s resource management directorate (G-8), works year-end closeout budget requirements for fiscal year 2023 at her office on Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Sept. 19. Berger and her team of fellow resource managers are always extremely busy in September as the end of the fiscal year quickly approaches.
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But overall, it\u2019s a total team effort to close out the end-of-year budget and prepare for the next fiscal year, Muhammadou said. Everyone works incredibly hard to do so, and they do so as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes multiple stakeholders to have a successful year-end closeout. Thank you to my team and to everyone that continues to support us. The G-8 back at ASC headquarters and the 21st TSC G-8 \u2013 they have been tremendous. We couldn’t do it without them,\u201d said Muhammadou.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to ASC and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. Forces throughout Europe and Africa \u2013 providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging the U.S. Army Materiel Command materiel enterprise to support joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official website<\/a> and the official Facebook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team at the 405th Army Field Support Brigade\u2019s resource management directorate pose for a group photo in front of the brigade headquarters on Daenner Kaserne in Kaiserslautern, Germany, Sept. 19. It\u2019s a total team effort to close out the end-of-year budget and prepare for the next fiscal year, said Suleymanu Muhammadou, the 405th AFSB […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28891,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28896,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28889\/revisions\/28896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}