Army Financial Stewardship Excellence Awards


The Army Financial Stewardship Excellence Award is given quarterly to a Soldier, nominated by his unit (DRU, ASC or COCOM) who provides leadership, mentorship and guidance to financial personnel in his unit.

The recipient is determined by The Honorable John E. Whitley, Assistant Secretary of the Army, Financial Management and Comptroller and Lieutenant General Thomas A. Horlander, Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army, Financial Management and Comptroller.
 
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COL Brian A. Smith
U.S. Forces Command		 Duty Description: Serves as the Senior Uniformed Financial Management Officer for Forces Command (FORSCOM); leads and serves as the Accounting and Enterprise Operations Division Chief responsible for accounting, reconciliation, and financial systems support for over $4 billion in annual O&M funding. Directs the command's efforts for process standardization, financial systems support, and force training and generation of assigned Army Financial Management units for worldwide employment.

Narrative: Served as the FORSCOM CAER Primary Staff Officer from the inception of the program in April 2018 until May 2019. Assisted ASA-FM&C during program development from Jan-April 2018. As FORSCOM CAER lead, he educated FORSCOM senior leaders (DCG, CoS, G4 and G8) on financial metrics and translated those impacts into the supply system and transportation billing system. He briefed the DCG monthly in preparation for Army Senior Leader engagements to include development of FORSCOM talking points. Issues raised by FORSCOM helped to drive change for the entire Army.
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Mr. Daniel Garrido
U.S. Army Medical Command		 Duty Description: Serves as a staff accountant for the United States Army Medical Command (MEDCOM); manages $517M in accounts receivables and the debt management program.  Primary financial and operational reporting analyst for the MEDCOM G8.

Narrative: Served as the MEDCOM CAER alternate Staff Officer from the inception of the program in April 2018 until October 2018 and the primary Staff Officer from November 2018 until present. Has consistently assisted the ASA-FM&C data team on data query refinement; showcasing both his extensive knowledge and commitment to meeting the program intent. Developed and regularly refining, the new enterprise wide data call format. Conducts, consolidates, and analyzes all monthly submissions from the field. Assists all CAER initiative leads (Branches, Divisions, Directorates, and Commands) with analysis and submission, product and process development, and all new internal CAER requirements per leadership.  Serves as secondary POC for all CAER initiatives.  Generates and conducts the pre-brief to G8 leadership.  Serves as MEDCOM internal and external liaison with all key stakeholders.  Assists in new process and policy development.  Primary planner and instructor of a 175 man week long off site CAER initiative training event.  Mr. Garrido has been integral in the successful implementation and execution of the CAER program devoting countless hours educating, training, and developing new innovative tools to better assist the entire organization.  His selfless service and dedication have directly attributed to MEDCOM’s continuous improvement in financial readiness.
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Mr. Daniel Garrido
U.S. Army Medical Command		 Duty Description: Serves as a staff accountant for the United States Army Medical Command (MEDCOM); manages $517M in accounts receivables and the debt management program.  Primary financial and operational reporting analyst for the MEDCOM G8.

Narrative: Served as the MEDCOM CAER alternate Staff Officer from the inception of the program in April 2018 until October 2018 and the primary Staff Officer from November 2018 until present. Has consistently assisted the ASA-FM&C data team on data query refinement; showcasing both his extensive knowledge and commitment to meeting the program intent. Developed and regularly refining, the new enterprise wide data call format. Conducts, consolidates, and analyzes all monthly submissions from the field. Assists all CAER initiative leads (Branches, Divisions, Directorates, and Commands) with analysis and submission, product and process development, and all new internal CAER requirements per leadership.  Serves as secondary POC for all CAER initiatives.  Generates and conducts the pre-brief to G8 leadership.  Serves as MEDCOM internal and external liaison with all key stakeholders.  Assists in new process and policy development.  Primary planner and instructor of a 175 man week long off site CAER initiative training event.  Mr. Garrido has been integral in the successful implementation and execution of the CAER program devoting countless hours educating, training, and developing new innovative tools to better assist the entire organization.  His selfless service and dedication have directly attributed to MEDCOM’s continuous improvement in financial readiness.
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