Jennifer Paperman

Jennifer Paperman has been with the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) since June 1999, when she started as a staff auditor with the Division of State Government Accountability (SGA). She is currently the Quality Assurance Manager with SGA. In that position, she is responsible for ensuring that SGA auditors understand and can apply generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS) to their work and for verifying that all SGA audits complied with GAGAS. She oversees a team of internal reviewers, as well as providing training and guidance to SGA auditors. In addition to her audit work, Jennifer regularly presents on topics such as auditing and government auditing standards, work paper preparation, data reliability testing, internal control assessment, information analysis and statistical sampling to SGA staff. She also presents these topics to other units of OSC and to outside groups. Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and two master’s degrees – public administration (with a concentration in public finance) and accounting – all from SUNY Albany. She is a Certified Public Accountant. Jennifer is an active member of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) and currently serves as an officer of the AGA New York Capital Chapter and as a member of the AGA Professional Ethics Board at the national level. Jennifer is married and has a son and a daughter. If Jennifer had free time, she would spend it cross-stitching, scrapbooking, and playing tabletop games (especially miniatures). But instead, she volunteered to serve as the New York State Director for America’s Tapestry, an ambitious project to stitch one panel for each of the 13 original colonies in time for the 250th anniversary of the US.