| Oklahoma Office of State Finance | |
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| Great Seal of Oklahoma | |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1947 |
| Preceding agency | State Budget Office |
| Headquarters | 2300 N Lincoln Boulevard Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| Employees | 157 (FY11) |
| Annual budget | $43.6 million (FY11) |
| Ministers responsible | Preston Doerflinger, Secretary of Finance and Revenue Alex Pettit, State Chief Information Officer |
| Agency executive | Preston Doerflinger, Director of State Finance |
| Website | |
| www.ok.gov/OSF/ | |
The Oklahoma Office of State Finance (OSF) is the Oklahoma state government agency that prepares the Governor of Oklahoma’s annual budget, analyzes the effectiveness of state management, manages the state’s budget system and makes appropriate allotments and transfers throughout the state government. The Office is headed by the Director of State Finance, who is appointed by the Governor with the approval of the Oklahoma Senate, to serve at the pleasure of the Governor. Additionally, the State of Oklahoma's Chief Information Officer (a cabinet level position) reports to the Governor and oversees the Office of State Finance's IT branch.
The current Director of State Finance is Preston Doerflinger, who was appointed by Governor Mary Fallin in 2011, and the current Chief Information Officer is Alex Pettit, appointed by Governor Brad Henry in 2010 and retained by Governor Fallin in 2011.
The Office of State Finance was created in 1947 during the term of Governor of Oklahoma Robert S. Kerr.
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The Oklahoma Office of State Finance's Internal Services Division oversees and administers the State's Financial, HR, Budgeting, Enterprise Learning, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Scanning and Imaging, IT/Telecom Purchasing, Voice over IP (VOIP) and traditional analog telephone applications. Additionally OSF supplies a wide variety of IT services ranging from Disaster Recovery to agency courier services.
In April 2010, Governor Henry appointed the Oklahoma's first Chief Information Officer following legislation passed in the last session of 2009 modernizing Oklahoma's state government. Part of the CIO's responsibilities is to identify synergies possible through the reduction of duplicate systems and centralizing IT infrastructure.
The Office of State Finance was significantly reformed in 2011 when Governor Mary Fallin signed the Government Administrative Process Consolidation and Reorganization Reform Act of 2011. Pursuant to that Act, several agencies were consolidated into OSF, including the Oklahoma Department of Central Services, the Oklahoma Office of Personnel Management, the Oklahoma State Employees Benefits Council, and the Oklahoma State and Education Employees Group Insurance Board. All the powers and duties of the those agencies were vested in the Director of OSF and the individual agencies became subsidiary divisions of the OSF.
The Office of State Finance is a relatively small agency of the State. OSF has an annual budget of over $40 million.
| Division | Budget (in millions) |
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| Administration | $0.6 |
| Budget Division | $1.4 |
| Central Accounting Division | $3 |
| Information Services Division | $33.5 |
| Human Resoures Division | $0.4 |
| Other Units | $6.9 |
| Total | $45.8 |
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