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Jason Bossie

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Role
Official · SBA
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PPP, EIDL, Other programs
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  • Pandemic-program role: Acting Chief Financial Officer of SBA; signed the FY2021 Agency Financial Report and authored the agency's formal response to the auditors' COVID-related material-weakness findings.
  • Institution · office: SBA · Office of Performance, Planning, and the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) · Type: career official
  • Tenure (relief-relevant): Signed the FY2021 AFR as Acting CFO, dated November 15, 2021; held senior OCFO roles through the pandemic period (Director, Office of Performance Management; Acting Associate Administrator for Performance, Planning, and the CFO).

The job (role mechanics)

  • Level / appointment: Career civil servant acting up: Acting Chief Financial Officer / Acting Associate Administrator for Performance, Planning, and the CFO. (A confirmed SBA CFO is a PAS, Executive Schedule Level IV position under 5 U.S.C. 5315; Bossie held it in an acting/career capacity, having been Director of the Office of Performance Management, an SES-level role.)
  • Reports to: The SBA Administrator (the CFO is an agency-head-level financial officer); coordinated with the Inspector General on the financial-statement audit (his audit response is addressed to IG Hannibal Ware).
  • Core responsibility: Agency financial stewardship and reporting: produced the FY2021 Agency Financial Report, disclosed the COVID-tied material weaknesses (PPP, EIDL, RRF/SVOG, subsidy reestimate), and authored SBA's formal management response to the KPMG audit.
  • Pay: Acting in a position whose confirmed rate is EX-IV ($172,500 statutory in 2021). Source: Ex Pdf 6009Adaafdb86580 (original: opm.gov · stored capture). His exact salary and grade are not in a first-party document.
  • Expectations / mandate: Lead OCFO: financial management, performance/evaluation, the AFR and audit response, internal-control reporting on the relief programs, and the agency's "learning agenda"/evidence functions.
  • Tenure norm: Career official (continuing) serving in an acting senior role; does not turn over with administrations.

Who they are

Jason Bossie is a career SBA financial-management official. During the pandemic-relief period he was a senior figure in SBA's Office of Performance, Planning, and the Chief Financial Officer, and served as Acting Chief Financial Officer / Acting Associate Administrator for that office. In that capacity he was the signatory on the agency's FY2021 Agency Financial Report and on SBA's official management response to the independent auditors' findings about controls over the pandemic loan programs.12

Career before the pandemic

Within SBA, Bossie served as Director of the Office of Performance Management before, by the FY2021 reporting cycle, acting as head of the combined performance/CFO office.23 Earlier employers are not stated in a first-party source.

Role in the pandemic relief programs

Bossie's role was financial stewardship and reporting. He led production of the FY2021 AFR, which disclosed material weaknesses tied to the relief programs: "PPP Loan Guarantees," "COVID-19 EIDLs and Grants," "Subsidy Reestimate," and the "Restaurant Revitalization and Shuttered Venues Operators Grant program." As Acting CFO he authored SBA's formal response (Appendix IV) to KPMG's audit, addressed to Inspector General Hannibal M. Ware, contesting some of the auditors' conclusions while accepting others.2

Documents written or signed

  • "Message From the Acting Chief Financial Officer," SBA FY2021 Agency Financial Report — signed "Jason Bossie, November 15, 2021" (AFR p. 33). Agency Financial Report, Fiscal Year 2021 — U.S. Small Business Administration (original: sba.gov · stored capture) (link now dead; copy taken from the Internet Archive, 10 April 2023) 1
  • "CFO Response to Audit Report on FY 2021 Financial Statements," Appendix IV of the FY2021 AFR — "FROM: Jason Bossie, Acting Associate Administrator for Performance, Planning and the Chief Financial Officer; TO: Hannibal M. Ware, Inspector General," dated November 15, 2021.2
  • Named as "Jason Bossie, Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Performance, Planning, and the Chief Financial Officer" in the SBA OIG independent-auditors' report distribution (Report 22-05).3

Career after / where they are now

His roles after the FY2021 reporting cycle are not stated in a first-party source.

Sources held in this archive

Original source documents and archived captures

Sources (first-party)

  1. SBA FY2021 Agency Financial Report, "Message From the Acting Chief Financial Officer," signed Jason Bossie, November 15, 2021 (p. 33). Agency Financial Report, Fiscal Year 2021 — U.S. Small Business Administration (original: sba.gov · stored capture) (link now dead; copy taken from the Internet Archive, 10 April 2023) ↩
  2. SBA FY2021 Agency Financial Report, Appendix IV, "CFO Response to Audit Report on FY 2021 Financial Statements," from Jason Bossie (Acting Associate Administrator for Performance, Planning and the CFO) to IG Hannibal M. Ware, November 15, 2021; the report lists COVID-tied material weaknesses (PPP, EIDL, RRF/SVOG). Agency Financial Report, Fiscal Year 2021 — U.S. Small Business Administration (original: sba.gov · stored capture) (link now dead; copy taken from the Internet Archive, 10 April 2023) ↩
  3. SBA OIG, "Independent Auditors' Report on SBA's FY 2021 Financial Statements," Report 22-05 (distribution names Jason Bossie, Acting Associate Administrator, OPP&CFO). SBA OIG, "Independent Auditors' Report on SBA's FY 2021 Financial Statements," Report 22-05 distribution names Jason... (original: sba.gov · stored capture) ↩
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