Sherri D. Jordan is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Architect of the Capitol (AOC). As the CFO, she oversees the agency's billion-dollar budget as well as provides stewardship over its financial resources that sustain the financial operation needs of the offices/jurisdictions and central services of the AOC.

Professional Experience

Prior to joining the AOC, Jordan served as the Associate, Chief Financial Officer for Financial Services at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), serving as a senior advisor to the CFO and Deputy CFO on matters related to accounting, audit oversight, policy and reporting. She was responsible for overseeing accounting operations and reporting of the OPM billion-dollar federal government's earned benefits program as well as the annual agency financial report.

Jordan has served in various senior financial operation positions primarily within both the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security for the past 22 years, as well as 10 years of management/IT consulting experience. Jordan served as the acting Executive Director of Financial Operations at U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), where she oversaw the activities of 270 staff located in Washington, D.C., and Indianapolis, IN, and acquisition programs with $50M annual budgets. As acting Executive Director, she provided executive-level direction, policy leadership, risk and management oversight and overall coordination for all accounting, audit, financial policy development, system operations, and financial statement functions.  As Director of the Financial Systems Division within the CBP's Office of Finance's Financial Operations Directorate, she directed and led a division, consisting of 29 government employees and 35 contractors, with a $20M annual budget. She was responsible for ensuring CBP's financial management/accounting systems and travel systems operated effectively. From December 2015 to April 2017, Jordan was also serving as the acting Senior Executive Program Manager responsible for leading a $30 million Revenue Modernization program. She was responsible for establishing the Program Management Office, hiring key government staff, and obtaining contractor support to complete key projects/pilots that improved CBP's revenue collection process during Fiscal Years 2016-2017.

As a Senior Manager with the Department of Navy, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Financial Management & Comptroller, Financial Operations, she supervised a staff responsible for providing financial management policy guidance and requirement analysis as it related to the implementation of a new Department of Navy business system (Navy ERP-SAP product). She was instrumental in the implementation of the Navy ERP financial management system, to over 71,000 users, that managed 51 percent of the Department of Navy's total obligation authority (~$65B).

A member of the Senior Executive Service since April 2020, Jordan enjoys coaching and mentoring staff, assisting them in their career development journey. Growing leaders from where they sit in the organization is her goal.

Education

Jordan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration and Master of Public Administration degree from George Mason University. A lifelong learner, Jordan completed a graduate certificate in Information Systems from Johns Hopkins University in 2006. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Defense Financial Manager (CDFM) and certified Scrum Project Owner (CSPO). Jordan is a September 2014 Federal Executive Institute graduate. In April 2018, Jordan completed the American University's Key Executive Leadership Certificate Program.