About
Jennifer currently services as a Professional Practice partner in Ernst & Young’s Financial Services Office. In that capacity, she is involved in a broad range of internal risk management and professional activities, including tracking emerging accounting issues and consulting with engagement teams that serve insurance, wealth and asset management, and banking and capital markets clients, to help them understand how to apply complex accounting principles and the related audit implications. Jennifer is also one of the principal technical resources on accounting and financial reporting matters to Ernst & Young’s insurance professionals and clients throughout the U.S. and is a member of the AICPA Insurance Expert Panel.
Jennifer has over 33 years of audit and advisory experience with Ernst & Young and served a variety of public, private and foreign traded companies within the financial services industry, including property and casualty insurers, life insurers with traditional and variable products, health care organizations and broker/dealers in Boston, Chicago and New York.
From 2010 through 2013 Jennifer was a senior fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) where she was the lead project manager on the insurance contracts project. This involved working with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in the development of a new standard to improve the financial reporting for insurers.
Jennifer has been a frequent speaker at financial services industry trade group seminars and at Ernst & Young-sponsored seminars and has participated in several AICPA committees. Jennifer has written several articles as well as the GAAP chapter within the IASA textbooks for the Property/Casualty, Life and Health Insurance Industries and is an author of the Society of Actuaries GAAP and IFRS for insurers textbooks.