Roz started her government career with State Government Accountability (aka Management Audit) in the Office of the State Comptroller in 1993 and joined the Bureau of State Expenditures in 1998, where she has consistently provided coaching and guidance to help State Expenditures define and refine its risk-based auditing process. She pioneered many of the processes that have been instrumental in the Bureau’s success, including using ACL to identify fraud, waste and abuse; developing and providing Bureau-specific training for new auditors; overseeing the development of certain State fiscal policies and designing the Bureau’s audit risk assessment process consistent with Statement on Auditing Standards 99.

Roz currently serves as the Bureau’s Assistant Director with responsibilities for collaborative leadership of 90 staff and for the facilitation of staff development, policy development, customer education and a good return on investment of resources dedicated to audit and operational activities. With the help of her leadership, the dedicated professionals in the Bureau of State Expenditures have efficiently and effectively met its operational responsibilities and have identified and recovered/prevented the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud, waste and abuse in the last five years.

Prior to joining the New York State workforce, Roz worked for KeyCorp in their Management Reporting and Mergers and Acquisitions departments.

Over the course of her career, Roz has developed and provided training to professional organizations across the United States and to New York State and local government managers and staff and on a variety of fraud, auditing and management topics, including Fraud Red Flags, Forensic Audit Techniques, Auditing 101, Contract Monitoring, Brand You!, Skills for Success and most recently, Leveraging Auditors’ Expertise to Minimize Fraud in Government. Roz has also been a guest lecturer at Siena College for its Internal and Performance Auditing class and its Computer Auditing and IT Controls class and at Sage College for its Procurement Fraud class.

Roz is a Past President of the Albany Area Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Albany Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors. She graduated magna cum laude from Siena College in 1993 with a Bachelors of Business Administration in Accounting. She also holds certifications in fraud examination, internal auditing and government auditing. Roz and her husband Tom live in Upstate New York with their three sons: Jack, Emmett and Miles.