Finances Defence
Aim and purpose
The Finances agency Defence is integrated into the Armed Forces Planning Staff and represents the Defence sector in financial issues on behalf of the Chief of the Armed Forces both within the Department and in relation to outside parties. The Finances agency has overall responsibility for the financial business process within the Defence sector.
Organisation:
Currently we face a three-fold challenge:
Organisation:
- External sector:
Management of business sector ‘Finances D’
- Control of main management process Finances D (as far as not delegated)
Currently we face a three-fold challenge:
- to fulfil the basic tasks in an extremely difficult financial environment
- to implement a business turnaround in the midst of a managerial change and, in particular, to increase the quota of investment expenditure
- to simultaneously further develop the financial set of instruments towards effective management of administration in step with overriding projects such as the New Federal Accounting Model (NFAM).
- Internal sector:
- Management of the organisational unit ‘Finances D’ within the AFPS with the following instruments:
- Process model
- Multi-year business planning
- Production planning
- Functional diagrams.
Tasks
- Finance management in the Defence sector
- Contacts for all financial issues relating to defence
- Outward representation of the Defence sector in financial issues.
Responsibilities:
- Overall responsibility for the business process of Finances D

- Responsibility for the Defence budget
- Responsibility for implementation within the sectors
- Financial controlling
- Financial planning
- Financial systems, procedures, processes (financial engineering)
Contact
The Chief Finance Officer Defence (CFO D)
Gerhard Jakob
answers questions relating to:
Financial controlling D
Financial strategy D
Financial planning D
Affordable product portfolio
System of order D
Marcel Dür answers questions on the Defence budget

- Swiss bank notes
