Junior Achievement of Arizona
Amy Schaefer has a comprehensive work history in finance and accounting spanning over three decades. Amy began their career in 1986 as an Audit Senior at the Office of the Auditor General of Arizona, where they reviewed and evaluated financial systems of government entities and trained staff. In 2000, they joined Keller Williams Realty East Valley as a Market Center Administrator, responsible for transmitting financial information and managing large commissions. From 2002 to 2010, they worked at Lone Wolf Aviation as a Controller, handling financial statement preparation, cash management, and auditor information compilation. Amy then transitioned to Junior Achievement of Arizona in 2010, starting as a Senior Accountant and later progressing to roles such as Accounting Director and Controller. Amy prepared monthly closing journal entries, financial statements, and performed variance analysis. Most recently, they have been serving as the VP of Finance at Junior Achievement of Arizona.
Amy Schaefer earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Accounting from Northern Arizona University-The W. A. Franke College of Business, which they attended from 1981 to 1986. Amy is also a Certified Public Accountant, having obtained this certification from the Arizona Board of Accountancy in May 2015.
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Junior Achievement of Arizona
For the last 60+ years, Junior Achievement of Arizona (JA) has been empowering the futures of millions of Arizona students by giving them the knowledge and skills they need to manage their money, plan for their future, and make smart academic, career and economic choices. Delivered by 9,500 business and community volunteer mentors, our hands-on, age-appropriate programs focus on three key areas: financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Serving more than 80,000 students each year and over 2 million since its founding, JA is shaping the college- and career-readiness conversation, and we play an important role in Arizona’s workforce and economic development. Our programs help students connect what they learn in the classroom to the real world, and demonstrate how learning correlates to earning – knowledge critical to empowering today’s students to be successful, contributing members of society in the future. We serve students with diverse backgrounds and socio-economic status throughout Arizona, with primary focus on providing our programs to students from low-income households. We are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization wholly dependent on the financial and volunteer support of individuals, foundations and businesses.