Ms Rose McAuliffe

Ms. Rose McAuliffe serves as the vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer at California State University Stanislaus. She is a productive CSU senior leader with experience directing operations and leading financial programs. She has more than 25 years of experience in finance, higher education, investments and government combined.

She previously served as the associate vice president for budget, planning and administration and chief budget officer at California State University, Sacramento. Prior to Sacramento State, McAuliffe was the chief of financial planning, policy and budgeting at CalPERS, where she managed the system’s multi-billion-dollar budget and financial operations. Some of her achievements include leading her CalPERS budget team to the GFOA Distinguished Budget Award three years in a row. She also leveraged technology to streamline operations and establish reporting capabilities while at the California Housing Finance Agency, the affordable housing bank for the State of California. At Sacramento State, she increased transparency in the budgetary and financial processes and revamped their Annual Report on Budget, Expenditures and Financial Information. She implemented the new process of position management for the campus and introduced a position management policy.

McAuliffe earned her bachelor’s degrees in international relations and Spanish from the University of California, Davis. She also holds her master’s in business administration from the Keller Graduate School of Management in addition to her master's in accounting. She is currently working to sit for the California CPA exam.