New Member - COL KENNETH E CROWDER
2883, 05 Jul 2022Kenneth Crowder is the U.S. Army Financial Management Command Army Financial Services Director. In this position, he directs a number of Army-wide programs for the USAFMCOM commanding general and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller. Currently. Crowder works closely with the Army commands, Defense Staff and agencies, U.S. Treasury, and Federal Reserve Banks to provide oversight of expeditionary and garrison financial operations. He also is heavily involved with the General Fund Enterprise Business System, GFEBS, for which he is responsible for the coordination and issuance of operational guidance for execution of established entitlement policy of miscellaneous pay processing, military pay processing, expenditure accounting and disbursing. The AFS directorate is the Army’s strategic-level finance operation providing. AFS is the Army’s primary liaison with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service on finance functions such as civilian and military payroll, travel and disbursing. In addition, the directorate runs the Army’s banking program and electronic commerce initiatives associated with finance to include the stored value card, debit card, credit card, international electronic payments and electronic check/debt processing programs. Due to the Army’s extensive deployments and mobilizations in support of overseas contingency operations, AFS has played an increasingly important role in coordinating and directing changes in the finance support infrastructure for supporting deployed Soldiers and operations. AFS is expanding operations to encompass more accounting functions in response to increased Army requirements for financial statement audits. The directorate now manages month-end and year-end close for GFEBS and Global Combat Service Support-Army, or GCSS-A, as well as approving all large accounting adjustments in those systems and at the departmental level.
Crowder began his federal civil service career in 2008 with the Army National Guard as the Army National Guard Financial Services Center director, where he led and managed an organization consisting of Accounting/Operational Review Program, Military Pay and Travel Policy, ARNG Military Pay Support, GFEBS Tier II help desk, Spending Chain (Vendor Pay), and Information and Technology. In 2016, he became the Military Pay Enterprise Solutions and Standards director. The directorate provided oversight to influence improvement in the timelines, accuracy, and enhancements of service standards for financial/pay system customers of DFAS. This required the standardization of pay processes and procedures across organizational boundaries as well as facilitate improvement of system performance requirements and system utilization. This also included management and oversight of the agency end-of-year programs for military pay and tax reporting.
Crowder is a retired U.S. Army Finance colonel who served as a finance officer in Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United States. He has a Bachelor of Science in accounting, with a minor in auditing and a Master of Business Administration with emphasis in telecommunications management.
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