Governmental Accounting & Auditing Interest Group Meeting & Technical Session (E2008268)

James Finn is a Senior Vice President with Brown & Brown Benefit Advisors in Lambertville, NJ, where he leads a team of five insurance professionals with group insurance sales and client management responsibilities for a clientele consisting of New Jersey public school districts.Jim provides group insurance brokerage and consultant services to 40 NJ public school districts with a premium responsibility of $200 million.Jim formerly held both marketing and underwriting positions with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. He has presented numerous times to the New Jersey School Boards Association, New Jersey Association of School Business Officials, and the New Jersey League of Municipalities. Jim graduated from Rutgers College in 1989 with a BA in Political Science and is a 2021 candidate for a Masters in Military History from Norwich University.

Jacqueline Grama is a CPA, licensed in New Jersey and holds a New Jersey School Business Administrator Certificate. She began her career in 1987 at Arthur Young’s Metropark Office performing audits of state and local government agencies in New Jersey. In 1999, she joined the Department of Education’s Office of Fiscal Standards to develop and implement fiscal policy for the newly established Charter School Program. She currently works in the Office of Fiscal Policy and Planning and is primarily responsible for the development and administration of fiscal policy guiding school districts and for the related provision of technical assistance. She also administers the Special Education Medicaid Initiative (SEMI) in conjunction with the Departments of the Treasury and Human Services. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Rider University in 1987 and her Masters in Public Administration from Rutgers University in 2002. Jacqueline is also an active member of the Association of Government Accountants.