Our goal is to provide responsive and quality services, systems, procedures, and internal controls for the effective utilization of program/project resources in support of Facilities Services Division programs and activities which contribute to the education of children in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

This department provides direction and coordination of the following areas:

• Strategic Planning & Monitoring: To forecast commitments and expenditures; provide risk management, bid trending, controls coordination, and oversight between branches.
• Budget/Funds Management: To manage, oversee, and allocate program budgets, sources and uses of funds, program reserve, provide funding strategy and management of indirect accounts.
• Financial Operations: To provide financial system account management (IFS/SAP), management of budget authority, cost allocation processes, and coordination of financial/process audits (OIG, AUP Bond).
• Reporting and Analysis: To coordinate and provide program financial and operational status, BOC monthly reporting, the Strategic Execution Plan, and ad-hoc requests.
• Scheduling: To establish and update project schedules based on input from project teams, support project management by focusing attention on critical path items in the schedule, prepare reports for program management to remain informed of potential opportunities or issues in project schedules, and review contractors. construction schedules.
• Estimating: To establish project budgets prior to project definition, review and provide input on A/E estimates during design phase, prepare estimates for comparison to bids, and support processing of change orders during construction.