Kelli joined Rensselaer as the AVP for Finance and Controller in September of 2010. She serves as a key member of the senior finance team and is responsible for providing overall leadership for accounting services, financial reporting, disbursements, travel management, systems, and operations.With many years of higher education experience she has served in leadership roles in finance, administration, and student financial services. She brings a wide array of experience to her position, as she as had broader responsibility beyond finance, serving as the architect of a Student Financial Services office, worked closely with Information Technology to implement a range of technology-based process improvements, supervised a budget office, human resources, and business services. She has also served in an acting vice president’s role, which has allowed her to interact with college leadership and serve on a President’s Cabinet. Before focusing her efforts in higher education she worked as an auditor for KPMG.Kelli partnered with the Administration Division to co-lead the reengineering of Rensselaer’s procurement process utilizing e-Commerce to improve customer service and achieve cost savings. She was also the lead on the travel management implementation that has significantly increased process efficiency and mitigated risk at Rensselaer. She is currently the chair of the Enterprise Risk Management and Student Employment initiatives at Rensselaer and works closely with the outsourced Internal Audit function facilitating the relationship with campus.