Tina M. Pierce
Ms. Tina M. Pierce is the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (DCFO) for the Department of Defense. She is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer and other Defense senior officials for Department compliance with the amended Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (CFO Act) and related financial management reforms. She is responsible for improving and sustaining DoD’s financial framework in the areas of policy, audit, remediation, and financial reporting; leading compliance with government accounting standards, Federal regulations, and laws; and promulgating best practices for effective, efficient, and lawful use of DoD resources. Her portfolio includes the annual DoD Agency Financial Report, financial audit support and issue remediation, oversight of the Department’s internal control and payment integrity programs, and DoD Financial Management Strategy development and implementation.
Prior to her selection as DCFO, Ms. Pierce served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Operations, where she successfully implemented provisions of the CFO Act and related financial management reforms. She also ensured the timely and accurate submission of Department of Air Force financial statements and managed, at the executive level, the Department’s Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation program.
Prior to her service with the Department of the Air Force, Ms. Pierce served as the Chief of Financial Reporting and Compliance for the Defense Health Agency. Her responsibilities included preparation of Defense Health Program’s financial statements and Agency Financial Report, oversight of Military Health System accounting policy, statutory and regulatory financial compliance, the Risk Management Internal Control Program, and Agency-lead for audit remediation efforts across the military health enterprise.
An Idaho native, Ms. Pierce was commissioned as a Marine Corps officer, serving in operational and staff financial management assignments from 1991 to 2006. Prior to reentering federal service in 2018 as a staff accountant with the Defense Health Agency, she held finance and accounting roles in the public and private sectors in the United States and Europe, with experience in information technology, energy, education and consulting industries.
Ms. Pierce was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in August 2020. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Accounting) from the University of Utah and a Master of Business Administration from Colorado State University. She is a Certified Public Accountant (Commonwealth of Massachusetts) and an active Certified Defense Financial Manager Level 3.