The Oklahoma Office of State Finance (OSF) is the Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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 state government agency that prepares the Governor of Oklahoma

Governor of Oklahoma

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’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

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, 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

Preston Doerflinger

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, who was appointed by Governor Mary Fallin

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 in 2011, and the current Chief Information Officer is Alex Pettit

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Alex Pettit is an American public administration official who is currently serving as the Chief Information Officer for the State of Oklahoma. As State CIO, Pettit works in the Oklahoma Office of State Finance is responsible for all information and telecommunication systems for all state...

, appointed by Governor Brad Henry

Brad Henry

Charles Bradford "Brad" Henry was the 26th Governor of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected governor in 2002...

 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

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 Robert S. Kerr

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Overview

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.

Organization

• Cabinet Secretary
• Director of State Finance
  • Deputy Director for Budget and Policy
    • Budget Division
      • General Government Section
      • Public Safety and Justice Section
      • Natural Resources and Regulatory Services Section
      • Health and Human Services Section
      • Education Section
      • Economic Development Section
      • Non-appropriated Agencies Section
    • Research Division
    • Gaming Compliance Unit
  • State Comptroller
    • Central Accounting and Reporting Division
      • Central Accounting Unit
      • Transaction Processing Unit
      • Financial Reporting Unit
      • Agency Finance Office
  • Human Resources Division
• State Chief Information Officer
  • Deputy Director for Information Technology
    • Information Services Division

Budget

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)
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

External links

• Official Oklahoma Office of State Finance website