Denise L. Gallion currently serves as the U.S. Army Financial Management Command interim deputy to the commander.
In this role, Gallion serves as the principal advisor to the USAFMCOM commander, ensuring the two-star command delivers precision, enterprise-wide financial operations to integrate, synchronize and sustain the battlefield through the Joint Strategic Area. She also advises the commander in USAFMCOM’s direct support of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller in their role as the principal advisor on all matters related to financial management and comptrollership.
Gallion most recently served as USAFMCOM’s Army Accounting and Audit Operations director, where she was responsible for teams remediating major Army-wide audit impediments in the areas of Fund Balance with Treasury, journal vouchers, intragovernmental transactions and sensitive activities. Notably, the A3O directorate downgraded the Army General Fund FBwT material weakness two successive years in a row, leading the way for Army to achieve a financial statement audit opinion in the future.
Prior to her tenure at USAFMCOM, Gallion served six years in the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Audit Readiness directorate, collaborating with the Army and various defense agencies to prepare for their first audit assertions. Gallion graduated from the DFAS Leaders in Motion program in 2010 after completing various assignments related to financial statement compilation and reporting, Enterprise Resource Planning readiness, and disaster relief and overseas contingency accountability.
She holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Indianapolis and a Bachelor of Arts in accounting and Spanish from Ball State University, Indiana. She holds designations as both a certified public accountant and a certified government financial manager. She’s a member of the Association of Government Accountants and the Society of Defense Financial Managers.