Llewelyn R. Terlaje Budget Analyst Office of Finance and Budget Guam Legislature
Llewelyn R. Terlaje is a Certified Government Financial Manager, Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Government Auditing Professional. She is currently serving as a Budget Analyst with the Guam Legislature’s Office of Finance and Budget under the Chairmanship of Senator Joe S. San Agustin. As a Budget Analyst, Llewelyn performs a wide range of analytical, technical, and advisory functions in the Government of Guam’s budgetary process. She is also directly involved in forecasting government revenues. Llewelyn has over 15 years of experience working in the government of Guam where her interest as a public servant began when she interned for the Office of Public Accountability (OPA). She then moved up the ranks serving as a staff auditor, then as an Auditor-In-Charge, and became part of the management team as an Audit Supervisor. As part of her accomplishments under OPA, Llewelyn’s audit received the Association of Local Government Auditors Exemplary Knighton Award for her audit on the Department of Public Works Village Streets Management Strategy. She also assisted with two publications under the Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI): Performance Audit Manual and the Strategic management Operational Guidelines. These two resources were created to aid over 25 countries under PASAI’s Pacific Regional Audit Initiative, which aims to raise public auditing in the Pacific Region to uniformly high standards. In the international arena, Llewelyn was a member of the global resource team for the INTOSAI Development Initiative’s Program on Supreme Audit Institutions Fighting Corruption. Llewelyn graduated from the Graduate School USA’s Pacific Islands Training Initiative Executive Leadership Development Program in 2015. She also graduated with honors from the University of Guam with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting. Llewelyn proudly serves as the Treasurer-elect with the Association of Government Accountants. Other leadership roles she has undertaken during her 15 years of membership include serving as the Secretary, Director of Bylaws and Procedures, Co-Director of Bylaws and Procedures, Director of Community Service, Co-Director of Community Service, and serving as a member of various sub-committees and task forces. She is also a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
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