Making "Cents" of Lakewood Finances

Tuesday, February 26th

7:00 PM

Forum One

Participant Bio

Jennifer Pae - Director of Finance - City of Lakewood

JENNIFER PAE
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
CITY OF LAKEWOOD

Jennifer Pae has been the City of Lakewood Finance Director for the past two years. She is a life-long resident of the City of Lakewood. Upon graduating from Lakewood High School, Jennifer attended the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana where she received her undergraduate degree. She worked for non-profit organizations in Ohio City and Tremont prior to starting graduate school at Cleveland State University where she received a Masters of Public Administration with a focus on Economic Development.

Jennifer’s experience in public finance began with a graduate assistantship at Cleveland State that turned into a full-time job as a research assistant. She performed governmental consulting work primarily in the areas of Capital Improvement Planning and Tax Analysis. In 2000, she began a job with the State Auditor’s Office as an assistant auditor in the Performance Audit Division. Jennifer quickly rose to the level of Senior Auditor Manager, where she oversaw numerous state and local government performance audits, which emphasize recommendations for effective and efficient government operations and potential cost savings. Prior to joining the City of Lakewood, she worked briefly at KeyBank as an operations internal auditor.

Jennifer joined the City as the Assistant Finance Director in February 2006, and was named the Acting Finance Director from March until September of that year until when a search committee comprised of five members of the Lakewood community was established to assist in the search for the best possible candidate for the position of Director of Finance. After an extensive search and a detailed interview process, the committee unanimously recommended Jennifer Pae for the position.